Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80688 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7364
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in adjusted head count poverty is different when using these two poverty measures. In terms of determinants of poverty dynamics, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This implies that short-term shocks are more reflected in consumption poverty while the effect of simultaneous shocks is exhibited significantly on multidimensional poverty. Overall, our result provides empirical evidence on the importance of using both measures as complementary to get a full picture of poverty measure, dynamics and determinants.
Subjects: 
poverty dynamics
consumption
multidimensional poverty index
rural Ethiopia
JEL: 
I32
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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