eprintid: 10088689 rev_number: 17 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/86/89 datestamp: 2020-01-07 12:13:47 lastmod: 2020-02-12 15:13:47 status_changed: 2020-01-07 12:13:47 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Teka, AM creators_name: Temesgen Woldu, G creators_name: Fre, Z title: Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities: Household-based evidence from Afar Regional State, Ethiopia ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F32 keywords: Afar, Determinants, FGT index, Income inequality, Pastoral, Poverty note: This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). abstract: This paper analyzes poverty and its determinants and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. 2295 households from zone 1 and zone 2 of the Afar region were surveyed and examined using the FGT index, the Gini coefficient, and logistic regression. 47.6 percent of the households are poor, with poverty gap index of 0.178 and poverty severity index of 0.092. Food poverty accounts for 33.7 percent with an income gap of Birr 33 per month. Food poverty is highest in pastoral (35.6%) than the agro-pastoral communities (29.8%). 35.6 percent of PSNP non-participants and 32 percent of the participant households are poor. Gender of the household head, family size, access to credit, mobility, participating in safety net programs and local institutions, distance to market and remittances are determining poverty in the area. There is an alarmingly high degree of income inequality (0.592) in the study area. The lowest Gini index (0.433) is found in Koneba district, and the highest index (0.616) is observed in widowed heads of households. Strengthening the poverty reduction programs and introducing diversified income schemes; modernizing local institutions, increase provision of microfinance services, introducing packages specific to women and youth are recommended to address the high poverty and inequality in Afar. date: 2019-09 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100123 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1733789 doi: 10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100123 lyricists_name: Fre, Zeremariam lyricists_id: ZFREX56 actors_name: Fre, Zeremariam actors_id: ZFREX56 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: World Development Perspectives volume: 15 article_number: 100123 citation: Teka, AM; Temesgen Woldu, G; Fre, Z; (2019) Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities: Household-based evidence from Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. World Development Perspectives , 15 , Article 100123. 10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100123 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100123>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088689/1/1-s2.0-S2452292919300293-main.pdf