The conference was organized by the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) on July 19-21, 2012 in Addis Ababa. EEPFE researchers and research associates presented their papers on this conference and also on the First Annual Conference on the Tigray Regional State Economic Development organized in Mekelle on July 14, 2012.
About 95 papers were presented on this conference revolving around issues related to agriculture, energy, climate change, poverty, behavioral economics, trade, price dynamics, health issues, children welfare, foreign aid, and other social issues.
EEPFE Parallel Session on the Tenth International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy
EEPFE co-organized a parallel session where its researchers, Dr. Alemu Mekonnen, Dr. Abebe Damte, Dr. Tadele Ferede, and Dr. Fantu Guta presented papers. They also chaired parallel sessions on the conference. Dr. Yonas Alem, international associate to EfD Ethiopia, also presented a paper on The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia.
The annual conference served as a good opportunity for EEPFE to introduce the forum to participants and disseminate research outputs and other resources.
On a similar issue, Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Zenebe Gebreegizbaher participated on the First Annual Conference on Tigrai National Regional State Economic Development. This conference was held on July 14, 2012 in Mekelle, Ethiopia as part of the initiative under taken by the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) to open its chapters at regional centres in collaboration with the Universities in the different regions. He presented a paper entitled: Sources of Technical Efficiency Differentials among Smallholder Farmers in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Panel Data Evidence and Implications for Food Security.
Paper abstracts presented by EEPFE researchers:
Poverty and rural household biomass fuel collection evidence from the highlands of the Amhara region, Ethiopia by Alemu Mekonnen and Zenebe Gebreegizabher (Presented by Alemu Mekonnen)
Determinants of Household Cooking Energy Choice in Urban Ethiopia: A Panel Data Evidence by Yonas Alem, Abebe Damte, Alemu Mekonen, Gunnar Kohlin (Presented by Abebe Damte)
Would Community and Household Tree Planting Imply More Wood Being Available for Fuel? by Zenebe Gebreegziabher and G. Cornelis van Kooten (Presented by Tsehay Ataklt)
Biofuels, economic growth, external sector and poverty reduction in Ethiopia: a computable general equilibrium analysis by Tadele Ferede, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Fantu Guta, Jörgen Levin, Gunnar Köhlin, and Lars Bohlin (Presented by Tadele Ferede)
Other papers
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia by Yonas Alem, Gunnar Kohlin, and Jesper Stage (Presented by Yonas Alem)
Economics of Climate Change Adaptation: Ethiopia by Sherman Robinson, Ken Strzepek, Len Wright, Paul Chinowsky, and Paul Block (Presented by Sherman Robinson)
Impact of Urbanization of Addis Ababa city on Peri-Urban Environment and Livelihoods by Leulsegged Kasa, Gete Zeleke, Dawit Alemu, Fitsum Hagos, and Andreas Heinimann5