ESSP Working Paper 161. Important changes in farms and farm demographics are noted in Ethiopia since 2004/05. These changes have important implications on discussions of the future of Ethiopian agriculture. Comparing the national agricultural sample survey of the Ethiopian Statistical Services (ESS) data between 2004/05 and 2016/17, we find that: (1) Average farm sizes of […]
Efficiency and profits of emerging medium-scale farms in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia’s commercial horticultural sector
We study production practices of larger and more capital-intensive farmers (“horti-preneurs”) in horticultural commercial clusters in the central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Attracted by profitable vegetable markets, more educated farmers rent in land for vegetable production from a large number of smallholders to meet rapidly growing urban vegetable demand. We find that these hortipreneurs obtain […]
Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 155 by Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Zhe Guo, and Greg Seymour. Abstract: Little is known about the impacts of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). The scarcity of empirical studies on this relationship can be partly attributed to the lack of an objective measure of urbanization levels. In this […]
The short-term impact of COVID-19 on Ethiopia’s economy through external sector channels: An economywide multiplier model analysis
ESSP Working Paper 154 by Aragie, Emerta, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum and Tamru, Seneshaw. Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to considerably affect the Ethiopian economy directly and indirectly due to global shocks and to the different restrictive preventative measures the country is taking. We analyze these economic effects using multisector economywide income multiplier models built […]
Assessing the short-term impacts of COVID-19 on Ethiopia’s economy: External and domestic shocks and pace of recovery
ESSP Working Paper 153 by Aragie, Emerta, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum and Thurlow, James. Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the economic impacts of response measures adopted in Ethiopia to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We carry out simulations using an economywide multiplier model based on a 2017 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the […]
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