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This paper presents trends in monetary
and nonmonetary dimensions of wellbeing in Ethiopia using
data from the Household Consumption and Expenditure and
Welfare Monitoring surveys implemented in 2000, 2005, and
2011. The paper provides evidence on changes in overlapping
deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional
poverty. It assesses the performance of various dimensions
in education, health, and living standards, taking one
indicator at a time. It then examines the overlap between
different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has
changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and urban
areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia’s
multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been
improvements in overlapping deprivations and, as a result,
the number of individuals deprived in multiple dimensions
has fallen.
