Essays about: "thesis on economics Ethiopia"
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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. Assessment of postharvest loss for perishable produces from wholesalers to consumers : a case study of Et-fruit distribution company in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This thesis underlines an assessment of the Postharvest loss conditions of selected fresh produces of Etfruit wholesalers and its impact on chain players in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Reducing Postharvest loss instead of increasing the volume of production can save scarce resources, ecofriendly and improve food security (Kader, 2004). READ MORE
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3. 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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4. Investment in Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM): a real option approach : a case study of Koshe/Repi landfill site (Ethiopia)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The marginal socio-economic condition of many people, lack of cooperative culture and cultural aversion towards waste, absence of well-defined enforcement mechanism to effectively coerce the population, restricted public service funding, high rate of population growth and the resulting ever increasing waste production are some of the major challenges faced by most developing countries, including Ethiopia, in an effort to implement effective and efficient municipal solid waste management (MSWM). Koshe/Repi, an old landfill in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is considered to be a huge opportunity in terms of material recovery and energy production. READ MORE
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5. Fairtrade Coffee and Development - a field study in Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Coffee is one of the world’s most traded goods, but as the commodity price has plunged in recent years it is increasingly hard for coffee farmers to survive on their crops. Fairtrade is a trading initiative based on equity that claims to contribute to development by increasing farmers’ profits and empowerment in communities. READ MORE
