Ethiopia has registered rapid and sustained growth over the past two decades, with economic growth over the last decade translating into strong growth in household consumption, especially in urban areas...
People migrate both within and between countries to improve their lives and the lives of families left back home. Evidence is growing on the significant returns to voluntary internal and international...
With the recent surge in infection and fatality rates, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to pose serious risks to the health and economic wellbeing of Ethiopians. Early on, Ethiopia...
This paper studies the effect of a change in the amount of cash assistance provided to Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan on household outcomes post-return. Using a regression discontinuity design...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its negative economic effects create a need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis. To monitor the impacts of...
The Ethiopian labor market is facing the dual challenge of creating new employment opportunities for the rapidly expanding labor force and improving the quality of existing jobs in the labor market. This...
Before the pandemic, Ethiopia was one of the world's fastest-growing economies, making important strides in poverty reduction despite a challenging labor market situation. Social protection remains a key...
The Ethiopian labor market is facing the dual challenge of creating new employment opportunities for the rapidly expanding labor force and improving the quality of existing jobs in the labor market. In...
This paper examines spatial heterogeneity in the impacts of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban household incomes in Ethiopia and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Combining new panel...
The world is urbanizing, with internal migration historically an important driver. Internal migration is also widely feared as source of urban underdevelopment. In addressing Africa’s employment challenge...
The Ethiopia High Frequency Phone Survey of Households (HFPS-HH) is conducted by the World Bank every four weeks to collect timely data to help monitor the economic and social effects of COVID-19 on households...
This note focuses on employment dynamics in Ethiopia between 2014 and 2019, utilizing the most up to date labor market data for urban and rural areas, and provides a summary of standard labor market indicators...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...
The World Bank Group, the Ethiopia Agency for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
COVID-19 has severely affected Ethiopia, weakening its economic performance. Ethiopia has experienced a collapse in external demand since April 2020 due to COVID-19. While merchandise exports, excluding...
Ethiopia’s job creation commission (JCC) had a goal of facilitating 150,000 Ethiopians into good jobs abroad by the end of the Ethiopian fiscal year 2012. In response to the growing youth population seeking...
It is long recognized that instability is inimical to economic growth. Instability produces uncertainty, amplifies risks, undercuts high-return investment, and diverts public policy towards short-term...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and relieve the impacts and protect the welfare of the least-well-off...