Statistical Measures of Poverty with Reference to Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kidane, Asmerom(Professer) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tesfaye, Eshetu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-26T05:59:46Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-26T05:59:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995-06 | |
| dc.description.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/3397 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba university | en_US |
| dc.subject | Measures of Poverty | en_US |
| dc.title | Statistical Measures of Poverty with Reference to Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |