Statistical Measures of Poverty with Reference to Ethiopia
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1995-06
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
This paper is a project on the measurement and analysis
of poverty in Ethiopia. Various statistical techniques of
measuring poverty are applied. Therefore, in this paper,
different measures of poverty will "be reviewed and discussed,
and apply them to Ethiopian setting to compute the results and
recommend the one that is appropriate for Ethiopia.
In particular, among others, two measurements, namely
Deficiency Risk Estimate and Gini-Coefficient, are applied to
measure poverty indicators of the country. They are used to
identify the percentage of under-nourished in a community in
Ethiopia and the distribution of social services of different
administrative regions of the country, like health services and
education, respectively.
Where as the other measures discussed in this paper, that
is, the head-count ratio, the poverty-Gap, Sen's Index and
Foster, Greer and Thorbecke measures are used to measure the
incidence; intensity and severity of poverty in Ethiopia using
income distribution
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Measures of Poverty