Rural poverty in Ethiopia
Over the past two decades, the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has carried out far-reaching institutional and policy reforms to transform itself from a centrally planned, Marxist regime to the facilitator of a stable market economy. These reforms have underpinned efforts to reduce poverty and increase spending on agriculture, education, health, water, transport and telecommunications.
never affected by food production failures (four);
affected, but not regularly (seven); and