Essays about: "Ethiopian rural household survey"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Ethiopian rural household survey.
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1. Child Labor as a Coping Mechanism: Children’s Time Use Responses to Community and Individual Shocks
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis explores the impact of community and individual shocks on children’s time use and aims to determine if and under what conditions households use child labor as a response to shocks. For this purpose, four survey rounds of a panel of Ethiopian children aged 5 to 15 are analysed. READ MORE
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2. Measuring vulnerability to poverty : an empirical evidence from Ethiopian rural household survey (ERHS)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Poverty reduction policies and strategies implemented in many developing countries like Ethiopia mainly target the current poor and neglect of the vulnerable. An understanding of household vulnerability to future poverty is crucial for sustainable growth and development to such countries. READ MORE
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3. Off-farm income and technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia : a stochastic frontier analysis
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : As in most developing countries, agricultural production in Ethiopia is dominated by subsistence-based smallholder farmers, whose production and incomes from the sector are constrained by socio-economic, institutional, resource and environmental factors. These factors generally attribute for lower productivity of the sector, which in turn forces farmers to participate in off-farm activities in order to diversify their sources of income. READ MORE
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4. The role of agricultural commercialization for smallholders productivity and food security : an empirical study in rural Ethiopia
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : For the past few decades, continuing economic and demographic change across the world has brought an excess demand for different types of agricultural products. As a result, policy makers and international institutions have been advocating several policy instruments aimed to boost agricultural production and food security. READ MORE
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5. Water, Smallholders and Food Security : an econometric assessment of the effect of time spent on collecting water on households’ economy and food security in rural Ethiopia
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Due to a lack of basic infrastructure, it is common in least developed countries that households spend a considerable share of the hours that they have available per day for production activities on fetching water. This study analyzes the economic impact of time spent by Ethiopian rural farm households on fetching water. READ MORE
