Impacts of Armed Conflict on Multidimensional Poverty In  South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region

Bogale, Habtu

dc.contributor.author	Bogale, Habtu
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-16T08:05:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-16T08:05:31Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14145
dc.description.abstract	Poverty and conflict have emerged as the most serious threats to long-term growth since the end of the Cold War. A catastrophic violent war has been occurring in northern Ethiopia since November 4, 2020. Much of the early research on the impacts of armed conflict has focused on the macro-level relationships between conflict, and economic growth and development outcomes. There has been little quantitative research on the multidimensional wellbeing implications of armed conflict at the microlevel. Then, this paper used micro-survey data to conduct an empirical test using the propensity score matching method to study the impact of conflict on multidimensional poverty. Alkire-foster methodology was used for poverty analysis at individual level due its growing popularity in the field. In addition, the empirical validity of including subjective wellbeing dimensions and frequency-based-weighting of dimensions in poverty analysis was tested. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 626 and 571 randomly selected individuals from conflict-affected and non-affected areas, respectively. According to the findings, the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) in the conflict-affected area was 46.4%, with 79.1% incidence and 58.6% intensity of multidimensional poverty. In the non-affected area, MPI was estimated to be 35.2%, with a 62.2% incidence and 56.6% intensity. The living standard dimension is the most important contributor to overall poverty in the study areas. The results of the Generalized Ordered Logit also revealed that health problems and conflict have a significant and positive impact on individuals' multidimensional poverty. It was also firmly revealed that conflict has a positive and substantial impact on multidimensional poverty with an Average treatment effect of 12.4% on deprivation score of conflictaffected individuals and an extremely powerful impact were pronounced on the living standard dimensions. The policies of decreasing poverty should then pay attention to living standard dimensions since this dimension is severely affected by conflict.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	ECONOMICS	en_US
dc.title	Impacts of Armed Conflict on Multidimensional Poverty In South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US