@article{Gelaw:51915,
      recid = {51915},
      author = {Gelaw, Fekadu},
      title = {The Relationship Between Poverty, Inequality, and Growth  in the Rural Ethiopia: Micro Evidence},
      address = {2009},
      number = {1005-2016-79196},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {26},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {This paper attempted to analyses the dynamic relationship  between the three development objectives: inequality,  growth and poverty. Given the vast majority of the  population (about 85 percent) is living in the rural area  and poverty being higher in rural than in urban Ethiopia,  the Government’s focus on rural development can be  acceptable if the country is to achieve its poverty  reduction targets in near future. Contrary to this, the  result of study shows that there has been no promising  reduction in poverty in the past. The study used five  rounds data collected from 18 rural villages through  Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. FTG poverty measures,  Gini index and General Entropy classes of inequality  measures were calculated. Fixed Effect estimation was made  based on 90 observations of indices obtained through  decomposition. The estimation results show that a one  percent growth would have reduced poverty gap by 3.25  percent, if part of it was not offset by higher inequality  resulting a net effects of only 0.6 percent reduction in  poverty gap. Growth in the past in the rural Ethiopia was  not pro-poor implying that appropriate policy measures need  to be taken to reduce the existing inequality.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51915},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.51915},
}