Heterogeneous effects of improving technical efficiency on household multidimensional poverty: evidence from rural Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Smallholder agriculture in developing countries is characterized by low productivity. Improving the productive efficiency of farm households is considered one of the paths to increase productivity and reduce poverty. This study analyzed the poverty reduction effects of improving the technical efficiency of cereal-producing farm households using plot-level data from rural Ethiopia. The effects were also evaluated whether they were heterogeneous relative to the level of crop diversification. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and stochastic meta-frontier approach were used to estimate the poverty status and the technical efficiency scores, respectively, and the Herfindahl Index (HI) was used to compute crop diversification. The instrumental Tobit Model was specified to estimate the poverty

SUBMITTER: Birhanu FZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8723994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature