Weldegebriel, Zerihun Berhane, Foloni, Giuseppe and Prowse, Martin (2015) The determinants of non-farm income diversification in rural Ethiopia. Journal of Poverty Alleviation and International Development, 6 (1). pp. 109-130.
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Diversification has long been viewed as a risk minimization strategy in the face of increasing climatic and economic risks in developing countries. This paper examines the determinants of non-farm income diversification in rural Ethiopia for a four-wave panel of 1240 households from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey over the period 1994–2009. The paper makes a conceptual distinction between non-farm and off-farm income and uses fixed and random-effects models to control for unobserved characteristics. The results suggest that the variables that determine non-farm diversification consumption per capita and livestock holdings—belong to pull factors and reflect a strategy by wealthier households. Coupled with instrumental variable estimations to ascertain the direction of causality, these findings lend support to the argument that the main motivation for increasing non-farm diversification is likely to be accumulation.
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2020 01:37 |
Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2022 08:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76193 |
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