Measuring Poverty in the Dry Highlands of the Northern Ethiopia: Income vs. Calorie

이태정 (Tae Jeong Lee); 박태선 (Taesun Park); 서연경 (SUH YOUN KYOUNG); 장두석 (Dooseok Jang)

doi:10.18350/ipaid.2016.25s.211

Measuring Poverty in the Dry Highlands of the Northern Ethiopia: Income vs. Calorie

Journal of Regional Studies and Development
Abbr : JRSD
2016, (), pp.211-242
DOI : 10.18350/ipaid.2016.25s.211
Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies
Published : March 25, 2016

Tae Jeong Lee ¹, Taesun Park ¹, SUH YOUN KYOUNG ², Dooseok Jang ³

¹연세대학교
²위드
³연세대학교(원주캠퍼스) 빈곤문제국제개발연구원

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In this study, we measure poverty in the four rural villages, Koraro, Selam (MVs), Debrehiwot, and Simret (non-MVs), in the Hwazen district, Tigray of Ethiopia. The sample for the field survey consists of 324 households and 1,865 individuals. The prevalence of extreme poverty are measured in three ways: the fraction of individuals whose per capita daily gross income or net income falls short of $1.25 in 2005 PPP, and the fraction of households whose annual calorie intake falls short of the minimum calorie requirement. We find that the prevalence of extreme poverty is 30% higher than the official statistics; that the poverty measures based on income insufficiency turn out to be more or less the same as that based on calorie deficiency; that though poverty is more severe in non-MVs than in MVs, the difference is insignificant when measured in income deficiency but significant when measured in calorie deficiency; and that there is remarkable inequality of income and calorie in those rural villages and a poorer village has a more concentrated income/calorie distribution.

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Poverty, Calorie Intake, Ethiopia, Millennium Village, smallholder

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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