Household responses to shocks in rural Ethiopia livestock as a buffer stock /

Household responses to shocks in rural Ethiopia [electronic resource] : livestock as a buffer stock / Daniel Ayalew Ali.

This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other anima...

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Main Author: Ali, Daniel Ayalew
Corporate Author: World Bank. Development Research Group. Agriculture and Rural Development Team
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : World Bank, ©2015.
Series:Policy research working papers ; 7244.
Subjects:
Home economics, Rural > Risk management > Ethiopia > Econometric models.
Livestock > Ethiopia > Econometric models.
Consumption (Economics) > Ethiopia > Econometric models.
Rural families > Econometric models.
Consumption (Economics) > Econometric models.
Ethiopia.

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