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    Relationship between Poverty and Fertility the Case of Households of Ethiopia
    (A.A.U, 2008-06) Fitamo, Temsgen; Demeke, Mulat (Dr)
    In this study the nature and degree of the bi-causality relationship between poverty and fertility is explained. The study used data from demographic and health survey of Ethiopia of the year 2005. Poisson regression approach for multivariate analysis of fertility was employed. Fertility is analyzed by considering the number of children born to a woman with in her life time, and "asset index" was constructed from ownership of durables and housing characteristics as proxy for economic status.!t was found that fertility and poverty have different relations in urban and rural areas. Strong positive relation is observed in urban areas. But it was found that poverty shows J curve causality onto fertility. Fertility is negatively related with both low income and high income levels of household; however it shows strong positive relation with middle income households. Education, age at first marriage of female, employment and contraceptives have a strong reducing impact on fertility. In addition education plays a significant role in curbing poverty by increasing the productiveness, employment opportunity and empowering women. To alleviate high fertility and poverty, one can follow to routes. First, by reducing poverty incidence through better access to education and thus employment opportunity, we can address high fertility through improved accesses for education, as it increases opportunity cost of child bearing, delay marriage, and increases awareness contraceptive usage The second way is, directly targeting high fertility through family planning to reduce poverty in Cadence. Balanced economic growth and population growth will help government to provide nations with better social service and to produce more productive generation through provision of education, better employment opportunity and improved health care service. It needs policy intervention to expand education and family planning programs with better contraceptive access to low income women in both rural and urban areas. Attention should also be given to ways of reducing social factors which encourage early marriage so as to improve the social and economic power of women.