Income Poverty Profiles and Level of Households Social Deprivation in Tigray. The Case of Tw o Tabias (Villages) in Gulomekheda Wereda, East Tigray, North Ethiopia.
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2007-08
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Addis Ababa University
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Tllis paper addresses a celltral ques tion: How is the welfare sill lntioll of /lIe sociely
ill eluding depth and lIlagnitude of poverty both in terllls of ill collle I1l1ri 1I01l-i1l COllle
illdimtors prevailillg at grassroots of the study nrea. This study prodll ces sOllie aggrega le
poverty estilllates; the lIIinimulII level of food basket, the a/Jsolille pOllaly Iille
expellditllres lIeeded to escape poverty and the weight of the poor as l/ lell l1s Ihe 1-llI llIall
Poverty Illdex (/-IPf) drawing frolll prilllary data sets. In tllis Silldy Ihc l'esml'cl,1'1'
developed a qllestiollnaire within the fra lllework of the research IPhich IPas IISCri as 11
IIlensnrillg instrulllent for the study.
My find illgs are /Jased on elllpirical work, which is based on data ga lhered frolll a sll rvey
of 119 ruml hOllseholds ill two Tabias (Villages). The lIIethodology IIsed is silllple alld
easily III1.derstanda/Jle not lIIarred with sophisticated concepts alld ecolloilleiric IIl0deis.
Tile Cost of Basic Need (CBN) and the UNDP-HPI approach are IIlilized for IIle ill cOllie
poverty lines alld nOIl-incollle deprivations respectively. The FGT pOllerly illriex is
eillployed to exallline the extent and severity of rural poverty alld reveols Ih l1l over 53
percent of the salllple households live below poverty li'ne with poverty gap alld sq ll l1red
poverty gap of 0.1336 and 0.0478 respectively. The study also reveals lI,al level of
deprivation to socio-econolll ic services (health, education, uutritioll I1l1ri lPoler) logelher
res II Its /-III III nIl Poverty Index (HPJ) is found to /Je 44.5 percell I. A loll' average riaily
calorie COl/S lllllptioll and higll prevalell ce of lIIalnutritioll reveals IIlnl n sig II ifimll I share
of the pop"lation live under situation of chronic food hunger. Evidellce 111 0 1'(' Ilia ll 52
percent of the population is living under absolute fOOd poverty. Tile reclIl'relll rirallglll
cOllpled with other environillental problems accelemte food CO IISlllll plioll sllorl fa ll.
Therefore separate and aggregate policy actions are required.
Decolll positioll of poverty against various socio-econolllic varial1lcs illriimles Ih ol, as
expected edncatioll statlls appear to contribute positively all illlprovellleill of l/Ie/fare of
the households and it is robust at first order stochastic dOlllinance tesl. Gellder lleodsh ip
difference does 1I0t lIIake significant difference in the livillg stalldard of Ille popllialioll.
Other variables also 1I0t found as expected, for exalllple relate to ti,e illier/illk of fa III ily
size, it is robust at first order stochastic dominan.ce test the highest tile fa ll/illl size tile
poorest tile hOllsehold, and the interlink of land ownership to rer/llce poverly is
illsigll ifiCl1l1t alld it is true at firs t order stochastic dOlllinance tesl allri tlle (o lltriiJil lioll of
agricllltllral package beneficiaries to poverty reduction is nol robllst 01 all order of
sloclwstic dOll/illall Ce tes ts.
Key words: Tabia, poverty (line incidence gap scverilll illdices),
conslllliptioll/expell diture, deprivatiou, Basic need, incolI/e and /lO/l -iIl COII II' Iloverty, Cost
of Basic Need (CB N), HOllsehold, Adult equivalent.
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Tabia, poverty, (line incidence gap scverilll illdices), HOllsehold