Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA)
16th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy
(Co-organized by IFPRI-ESSP)
Conference Program
(July 19 – 21, 2018)
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Objectives of the Ethiopian Economics Association
The Association is a non-profit making, non-political and non-religious professional organization established with a
view to advancing the objectives outlines hereunder:
To contribute to the economic policy formulation capability and broadly to the economic advancement of
Ethiopia
To promote the professional interests of economists
To promote the study of economics in the country’s educational institutions
Top promote economic research and assist in the dissemination of the findings of such research in Ethiopia
To provide fora for the discussion of economic issues
To promote professional contacts between Ethiopian economists and those of other countries
Vision “To become the premier Economic Association in Africa renowned for its excellence in
membership services and economic policy research”
Mission
“To represent the professional interests of our members, advance the discipline of Economics
and contribute to the development of the Ethiopian Economy”
Organizational Values of EEA Professionalism
Independence
Credibility
Integrity
Teamwork
Inspiring leadership
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Conference Programme Manager: Assefa Admassie
8:00 Registration
8:30 Opening Ceremony
9:00 Welcoming address by Dr. Tadele Ferede, President, Ethiopian Economics Association
9:30 Official Opening Statement by Higher Government Official
10:00 Presidential Address: Inclusive Growth in Ethiopia by Prof. Stefan Dercon
10:30 Honoring Ethiopian Economists
11:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Panel Discussion 1 Conference Room 1
State of the Ethiopian Economy: Quality and Sustainability of Economic Growth and Key Challenges
Chairperson: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Panelists 1. Nora Dihel
2. Mezgebe Amha
3. Seid Nuru
4. Alemayehu Geda
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 PARALLEL SESSION I Day 1 July 19, 2018
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Strategies to accelerate the
achievement of the
SDGs/Agenda 2063
Co-organized by UNECA
Conference Room 1
Chairperson: Paul Mpuga
Paper presenters
1. Francis Ikome: African
Governance Report V:
Natural resource
governance and domestic
revenue mobilization for
structural transformation
2. Duncan Ochieng Ouma: Exchange Rate Stability,
Foreign Exchange
Reserves, Monetary
Policy and Expectations:
The Case of Kenya.
3. Paul Mpuga: Africa Sustainable
Development Report
2018
Poverty Dynamics,
Rural Road and
Exports
Co-organized by
World Bank
Conference Room 2
Chairperson:
Nora Dihel
Paper presenters
1. Arden Jeremy Finn:
Poverty dynamics
and economic
mobility in
Ethiopia: 2012 to
2016
2. Shohei Nakamura:
Welfare Impacts of
Recent Rural Road
Development in
Ethiopia
3. Nora Dihel:
Beyond coffee:
Toward the
diversification of
Ethiopia’s exports
The economics of
livestock systems
Co-organized by
IFPRI-ESSP
Conference Room 3
Chairperson: Yetmwork Habte
Paper presenters
1. Fantu Bachewe:
Evolving livestock
production in
Ethiopia
2. Bart Minten:
Innovation and
transformation of
Ethiopia’s dairy
value chains
3. Yetmwork Habte:
Urban dairy
markets
Different Topics
Co-organized by IGC
Conference Room 4
Chairperson: Andualem Tilaye
Paper presenters
1. Berihu Assefa: Low Cost
Housing for Africa's Cities?
The Impact of the
Government Condominium
Scheme in Ethiopia.
2. Fitsum Zewdu: Trade
Liberalization,
Infrastructure and Firm
Performance: Evidence
from Ethiopia
3. Girum Abebe:
Do managers use financial
incentives effectively?
Evidence from a field
experiment in urban
Ethiopia
4. Andualem Tilaye: Fading
Choice: Market
development and consumer
good choice in remote
markets
Climate Change, Energy, Inflation
and Rural Livelihood
Co-organized by Gonder University
Conference Room 5
Chairperson: Workineh Asmare
Paper presenters
1. Melkamu Workie, Tadele Ferede
and Samuel Sebsibie: Impact of
Climate Change on Food Security
in Ethiopia: a Computable General
Equilibrium-Microsimulation
Analysis
2. Samuel Sebsibie: Evaluating the
Economic Impact of Energy
Efficiency in Ethiopia: A Recursive
Dynamic CGE Analysis
3. Fentahun Baylie and Workineh
Asmare: Is there Inflation
Threshold-effect on Growth for the
PINE Countries?
4. Workineh Asmare and Solomon
Zena: The effect of risk attitude on
rural livelihood diversification:
Evidence from Amhara National
Regional State of Ethiopia
15:30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 16:00 PLENARY SESSION I: Conference Room 1 Day 1 July 19, 2018
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Launch of the book “The economics of teff”
Chair Person: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Panelists 1. Bart Minten: Introduction
2. Kbebew Assefa: Agronomics of teff
3. Fantu Bachewe: Productivity and efficiency analysis of teff
4. Seneshaw Tamiru: The teff supply chain
5. Bart Minten: Dynamics in teff value chains
6. Kaleab Baye: Nutrient composition and health benefits
7. Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse: Policy implications
18:00 COCKTAIL RECEPTION AT EEA ATRIUM
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8:00 Arrival
8:30 PLENARY SESSION II Co-organized by AKLDP/USAID Tufts University Conference Room 1
Agricultural Transformation and Private Partnership Co-organized by AKLDP/USAID Tufts University
Chairperson: Amdissa Teshome
Panelists
1. Daniel Temesgen:
Examining Alternative Livelihoods for Transformation and Improved Resilience in Pastoral areas with the case to Afar
2. Bewket Siraw Adgeh:
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): An alternative service delivery model for Municipal Abattoirs
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11:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
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11:30 PARALLEL SESSION II Day 2 July 20, 2018
Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia
Co-organized by EDRI
Conference Room 1
Chairperson: Girum Abebe
Paper presenters
1. Mulu Gebreeyesus, Tsegaye
Gebrekidan and Kidanemariam Hailu:
Determinants of labor turnover in
micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia
2. Getahun D. Tigabu and Sied Hassen:
The Effect of Power Outage on Micro
and Small Enterprises Productivity:
Evidence from Urban Ethiopia
3. Girum Abebe and Mulu Gebreeyesus:
Group Entrepreneurship: Can worker
cooperatives provide viable paths to
create successful enterprises
4. Girum Abebe and Tsegay Gebrekidan:
What Determines Management
Practices in Micro and Small
Enterprises -
5. Berihu Assefa and Abebe Ambachew:
How does the business environment
affect firm entry and performance?
Evidence from MSE sector in Ethiopia-
FDI and Capital Flight
Organized by EEA
Conference Room 2
Chairperson:
Bilisuma Bidito
Paper presenters
1. Seid Nuru,
Yetsedaw Emagne,
Simon Bayou,
Kumadebis Tamiru
: The determinants
of FDI
2. Kumadebis Tamiru:
The Effects of Fiscal
policy on Capital
flight in Ethiopia:
Evidence from
ARDL Approach
3. Kumadebis Tamiru:
The
macroeconomic
determinants of
Multidimensional
poverty in East
Africa: Evidence
from panel Data
Growth and
Governance
Conference Room 3
Chairperson:
Beyene Gizaw
Paper presenters
1. Sisay Assefa:
Rebuilding the
Ethiopian Nation
State for the
future to become
Economic power
of the Horn of
Africa 2. Fassil Tassew :
Modeling The
Undiscovered
Gross Domestic
Product
3. Beyene Gizaw:
Situation
Assessment on
Local Economic
Governance for
the Private Sector
in Ethiopia
Child Marriage, Health and
Labour
Conference Room 4
Chairperson: Mengesha Yayo
Paper presenters
1. Mengesha Yayo :
Child Health Inequality
Dynamics 2. Terefe Admaw Bekure:
Determinants of Child
Labour Exploitation and
its Impact on Their
Educational Achievement
in South Western
Ethiopia: The Case of
Jimma Town
3. Robel Meskele:
Unemployment duration
and impact evaluation of
active labor market
programs on
welfare(measured by
earnings)
4. Yoseph Getachew: Share
the Love_ parantal Bias
women empowerment
Manuscript
Tax, ICT and Industry
Conference Room 5
Chairperson:
Zewdie Habtie
Paper presenters
1. Hassen Azime,
Gollagari
Ramakrishna: The
Influence of
Agricultural Sector
in improving the
overall-tax Revenue
Performance of
Ethiopia
2. Andualem Telaye
and Giulia
Mascagni: Can
ICTs increase tax?
Experimental
evidence from
Ethiopia
3. Zewdie Habtie:
Impact of
Industrial policy on
the regional
economy in
Ethiopia
12:30 LUNCH
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14:00 PLENARY SESSION III
Co-organized by IFPRI/ESSP
Conference Room 1 Day 2 July 20, 2018 Learning agenda IFPRI/ESSP
Chairperson: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Paper presenters
1. Kibrom Abay: Can Weather Risk Explain Low Demand for Agricultural Credit and Credit Rationing? Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia -
2. Bethelhem Koru: How Should Rural Financial Cooperatives Be Best Organized? Evidence from Ethiopia
3. Kalle Hirvonen: The Impact of the large-scale safety net programs on food prices in poor countries: The case of the PSNP in Ethiopia
4. Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse: Realizing Rural and Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia: Some Reflections
16:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 16:30 Panel Discussion II State of the Ethiopian Economy: Avenues for Liberalization and Financial Development
Chairperson: Assefa Admassie
Panelists 1. Eyesuswork Zafu
2. Sintayehu Woldemichael
3. Getahun Nana
4. Gebrhehiwot Ageba
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8:00 Arrival
8:30 PLENARY SESSION IV
Organized by EEA:
Conference Room 1
FDI in Ethiopia: Policy, Structure and Performances
Chairperson: Assefa Admassie
Paper presenters
1. Seid Nuru: Overall Structure, Performance and Determinants of FDI
2. Amin Abdella: FDI in the Manufacturing Industries
3. Degnet Abebaw: FDI in the Service Sector
10:30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
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11:00 PARALLEL SESSION III Day 3 July 21, 2018
Land access, land rights
and livelihood strategies
Co-organized By
IFPRI/ESSP
Conference Room 1
Chairperson:
Fikirte Girmachew
Paper presenters
1. Daniel Behailu:
Land Law Assessment
on the Land Transfer
Rights of Land Holders
in SNNPR
2. Yared Berha:
Land Law Assessment
on the Land Transfer
Rights of Land Holders
in Tigray
3. Abebaw Abebe:
Land Rental Practices:
Ade’a Woreda Oromia
National Regional State
4. Fikirte Girmachew:
Land access, land rights
and youth livelihood
strategy in Ethiopia
Different Topics
Co-organized By AAU
Conference Room 2
Chairperson:
Etsehiwot Semreab
Paper presenters
1. Tsegaye Mulugeta
Habtewold: A Meta-
Analysis of the Impact of
Improved Agricultural
Technology Adoption on
Welfare in Africa
2. Yemane Michael: The FDI-
Domestic Investment Nexus
in SSA
3. Yigermal Maru:
Devaluation, Balance of
Payment and Output
Dynamics in Developing
Countries: The Case of
Ethiopia
4. Etsehiwot Semreab: The
Determinants of
Agricultural Technology
Adoption and Its’ Impact
on Teff Productivity in the
Case of Amhara and Oromia
National Regional State
Social Protection and
Poverty
Conference Room 3
Chairperson:
Kassie Dessie
Paper presenters
1. Giulio Schinaia: Labour
Market Effects of Social
Programmes: Evidence
from Ethiopia’s Productive
Safety Net
2. Zemzem Shigute Shuka
Christoph Strupat: Linking
social protection schemes:
The joint effects of a public
works and a health
insurance program in
Ethiopia 3. Seid Sani & Biruk Kemaw:
Analysis of Households
Food Insecurity and Its
Coping Mechanisms in
Assosa Zone of Western
Ethiopia 4. Kassie Dessie: Access to
land, livelihood transition
and rural poverty in
Ethiopia
Export trend and
performance
Conference Room 4
Chairperson:
Hikma Abdu Aman
Paper presenters
1. Benat Mohammedamin
Mussa and Gollagari
Ramakrishna: Impact of
Trade Costs on Export
Performance of Ethiopia – A
Ppml Panel Gravity Equation
Approach 2. Ferhana Jelaludin: Future
Trends of Foreign Trade of
Ethiopia 3. Hikma Abdu Aman: The
Nexus of Export, Domestic
Demand and Economic
Growth in Ethiopia:
Evidence from ARDL
approach to co integration
4. Getachew Abebe:
Macroeconomic and
Distributional Impacts of
Currency Devaluation in
Ethiopia: An Assessment of
Recent Central Bank Moves
Agricultural
Commercialization
Conference Room 5
Chairperson:
Arega Shumetie
Paper presenters
1. Menasbo Gebru
Tesfay: Impact of land
rental on smallholders’
commercialization
2. Delelegne Abera and
others: Beer
Multinationals Enhance
Agricultural
Commercialization in
Africa: Empirical
Evidence from Ethiopia 3. Arega Shumetie and
Abebe Ambachew:
Backward Linkage of
Agriculture with the
Urban Sector in
Eastern and Central
Ethiopia: Determinants
and implication for
agricultural
transformation
12:30 LUNCH
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14:00 PARALLEL SESSION IV Day 3 July 21, 2018 Financial Sector Liberalization,
Saving and Technology
Co-organized By IFPRI-ESSP
Conference Room 1
Chairperson: Samson Gebrerufael
Paper presenters
1. Fetene Bogale Hunegnaw: Foreign Bank Entry and Issues of
Efficiency, Stability and Economic
Growth: Implication for Ethiopia
from Sub-Sahara African Countries
Panel Data
2. Tizita Gebeyehu Yismaw:
Determinants of Private Saving in
Ethiopia
3. Samson Gebrerufael:
Dynamics of Technology Gaps
between OECD and African
Nations
Improving Agricultural Productivity
Conference Room 2
Chairperson: Negese Tamirat
Paper presenters
1. Bedilu Demissie, Adem Kedir, Hussien
H. Komicha, Sisay Asefa: Determinants
of adopting improved bread wheat
varieties (IWVs) in Central Highland of
Ethiopia: A Double-Hurdle Approach
2. Endeshaw Habte Hailemichael:
Explaining maize productivity gap: Does
it matter who manages the maize plot?
3. Haftu Kelelew, Jema Hajia and Abbadi
Girmay: Determinants of Smallholder
Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies against
Climate Change Stresses: Evidence from
Raya Azebo District, Northern Ethiopia
4. Negese Tamirat: Adoption and Impact of
Row Planting of Wheat Crop on
Household Livelihood: A Case Study of
Duna Woreda in Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia
Agriculture and Natural Resource
Conference Room 3
Chairperson: Melkamu Tadesse
Paper presenters
1. Tiruwork Arega: Valuing Wild
Pollination Ecosystem Services to
Crop Production in Ethiopia 2. Nkwetta Ajong Aquilas: Testing the
Environmental Kuznets Curve
Hypothesis for the Depletion of
Natural Resources in Sub-Saharan
African Countries 3. Kide Gebru Tesfay: Determinants
of Farmers’ Adaptation Decision to
Agro-biodiversity Loss: The Case of
Assosa Zone, Benishangul Gumuz
Regional State
4. Melkamu Tadesse Wazza: Does
dairy feed technology adoption in
Ethiopia have an impact on milk
production? Impact Estimation with
Matched Difference-in-Differences
Technique
Energy and Others
Conference Room 4
Chairperson: Abdella Kosa
Paper presenters
1. Dawit Diriba:
Factors Affecting
Household Adoption of
Solar Energy Technology
in Rural Ethiopia 2. Tesfaye Etensa Guta:
Energy Consumption and
Economic Growth In
Ethiopia
3. Abdella Kosa and Idris:
Mohammad:
Uncovering the Unseen
Passion: A Fire to Foster
Ambition towards
Innovation
15:30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 16:00 Clos ing Sessions 16:30 COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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Note to Paper Presenters Considering the number of papers we have and the need to have reasonable time for discussion, the Secretariat of the
Ethiopian Economics Association would like to advise paper presenter to note the following points:
1. Paper presenters are advised to briefly introduce themselves;
2. Each paper presenter will have 15 minutes including self-introduction; and
3. Paper presenters are advised to give due attention for their findings (minimize or take out discussion on
methodologies) and limit the number of their slide accordingly.
Note to Chairpersons
The Secretariat of the Ethiopian Economics Association would like to remind the following points to chairpersons:
1. Introduce or Advise paper presenters to briefly introduce themselves;
2. The chairpersons have the responsibility of facilitating the discussion i.e. the chairpersons are advised as
much as possible not to involve themselves in the discussion;
3. Should always try to keep the time allotted to each paper presenter which is about 15 minutes in order to
allocate more time for discussion; and
4. Remind paper presenter when 5 minutes remains and stop when the time is over.
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