Multidimensional poverty and the variables that contribute to it in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia: Using rural-urban migration as a decomposition parameter

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.3233/hsm-220129

Mesfin Agza, Bamlaku Alamirew, A. Shibru

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BACKGROUND: Poverty alleviation is a critical issue for national and international development goals. Data on different poverty-reduction measures are eagerly sought by policymakers. Analytical data on the role of migration in poverty alleviation is one of them. OBJECTIVES: This study is designed to investigate the prevalence of multidimensional poverty and its determinants in connection to rural-urban migration. METHODS: Primary data was collected from 384 randomly selected rural households and analyzed using econometric models. RESULTS: Non-migrant and migrant-sending households had adjusted headcount ratios of 19.8% and 10.5%, respectively. Poor living conditions were identified in 43.5% of non-migrant households and 25.6% of migrant-sending households, respectively. Non-migrant households and migrant-sending households contributed 70.5% and 29.5%, respectively, to the entire sample’s adjusted headcount ratio. According to the findings, household size, the number of migrants per household, the education level of the household head and livestock ownership all has a significant effect on households’ multidimensional poverty. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate that rural-urban migration helps poverty reduction in the region. Therefore, proper consideration should be given to maximizing the benefit of migration on the long-term reduction of multidimensional poverty through productive remittance investment and assisting households to improve their productive capacity.

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埃塞俄比亚古拉格地区的多维贫困及其成因变量:以城乡迁移作为分解参数

背景:减轻贫困是实现国家和国际发展目标的关键问题。决策者迫切需要不同减贫措施的数据。关于移徙在减轻贫穷方面的作用的分析数据就是其中之一。目的:本研究旨在调查多维贫困的普遍性及其与城乡移民有关的决定因素。方法:随机抽取384户农村家庭的资料，采用计量经济模型进行分析。结果:非迁移家庭和迁移派遣家庭的调整人口比例分别为19.8%和10.5%。43.5%的非移民家庭和25.6%的移民派遣家庭的生活条件较差。非流动家庭和流动家庭分别占整个样本调整后人口比例的70.5%和29.5%。研究发现，家庭规模、每户流动人口数量、户主受教育程度和牲畜拥有量都对家庭多维贫困有显著影响。结论:研究结果表明，农村向城市迁移有助于该地区的减贫。因此，应适当考虑通过生产性汇款投资和帮助家庭提高其生产能力，使移民对长期减少多维贫困的好处最大化。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.