Research
Research
Alemayehu A. Ambel, Getachew Yirga Belete, and Oliver Fiala. 2024. Fiscal Policy and Child Poverty in Ethiopia. Child Indicators Research. 17: 221-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10088-0
Getachew Yirga Belete. 2022. Children's multidimensional deprivation, monetary poverty and undernutrition in Ethiopia. Review of Economics of the Household, 20:1087–1118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09568-5
Getachew Yirga Belete. 2021. Multidimensional poverty and inequality in urban Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, 30(1): 1-43.
Getachew Yirga Belete. 2021. Impacts of social protection programmes on children's resources and wellbeing: Evidence from Ethiopia. Child Indicators Research. 14(2): 681-712. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09771-3
Getachew Yirga. 2012. Rural Nonfarm Sector and Poverty: Evidence from Some Villages of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, 21(2): 63-88.
Getachew Yirga Belete. 2021. “Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Urban Ethiopia”. In: State of the Ethiopian Economy 2020/21, Ketema, M and G. Diriba (eds.), Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Economics Association.
Alemayehu Azeze Ambel, Getachew Yirga Belete and Oliver Fiala. 2022. Children and the Fiscal Space in Ethiopia: A Commitment to Equity Analysis.
Getachew Yirga Belete, Martina Menon and Federico Perali. 2019. Children’s resources and poverty in single-mother and male-headed households: A collective consumption evidence from Ethiopia.
Getachew Yirga Belete and Surafel Melak. 2016. “Multidimensional child poverty and vulnerability in Amhara Region”, Background Paper for the Report on: Equity-focused Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Boys and Girls in Amhara Region. ANRS-BoFEC, UNICEF-Ethiopia and Institute for Economic Research.
Getachew Yirga Belete. 2011. Determinants of Cut-flower Export Supply: An Econometric Evidence Using Ethiopian Panel Data, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrucken.
Alemayehu Geda, Getachew Yirga and Daniel Zerfu. 2009. Export Supply Response Capacity Constraints in Ethiopia. African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Collaborative Research on Export Supply Response Capacity Constraints in Ethiopia (version 2), Nairobi.
18th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy, Ethiopian Economic Association, (23-24 July 2021), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
10th Regional Conference on the Amhara Regional State Economic Development, Ethiopian Economic Association, (30 Nov. 2019), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Special IARIW-World Bank Conference on New Approaches to Defining and Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (7-8 Nov 2019) (Link), Washington, D.C., USA.
Conference on “What Works for African Children” (10-12 September 2018), Kampala, Uganda.
15th Midwest International Economic Development Conference (27-28 April 2018), Minneapolis, USA.
Seminar at the University of Verona (Septmber 2018), Italy.
Development Economics Seminar at the University of Goettingen (December 2018), Germany.
4th Annual National Research Conference, Debre Markos University (June 8-9, 2013), Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
3rd Regional Conference on the Amhara Regional State Economic Development, Ethiopian Economic Association (September 2012), Bahir Dar.
2020- : TAF Project: Terracing, Agro-forestry and Farm Optimization in Waghimra. As member. With Action Against Hunger and Bahir Dar University. Funded by the European Union - ICCO.
2020: Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Urban Ethiopia. As principal investigator. For the State of the Ethiopian Economy 2020/21. Funded by Ethiopian Economics Association.
2019. Baseline survey for the Inclusive Health, Economic and Social Development Program in South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: As research member. Roles in survey instrument preparation & data analysis. Funded by ORDA/Hope and Healing International.
2018–2020: Senior economist at the Bahir Dar City Structure Plan Preparation Project Office. Funded by Bahir Dar University.
· Led the City’s structure plan's geo-referenced household survey and neighborhood development plan's household & individual census design, instrument preparation, data collection, supervision, entry & management.
· Organized the City’s economy-related planning issues, activities, and reports.
2014/2015. Equity-focused Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Boys and Girls in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. As co-principal investigator. Roles in proposal write up, technical committee membership, final report write up and contributed a chapter on multidimensional child poverty and vulnerability. Funded by UNICEF Ethiopia.
2014/15. Multidimensional and consumption poverty in small towns of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. As co-principal investigator. Funded by Bahir Dar University.
2013/14. Multidimensional poverty analysis in urban Amhara region, Ethiopia. As co-principal investigator. (Involved in development of survey questionnaire, enumerator training, and leading of data collection supervision in 20 cities/towns). Funded by Bahir Dar University.
2012. Rural nonfarm sector and poverty in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. As principal investigator. Funded by Ethiopian Economic Association/International Growth Centre (IGC).
2011/12. Urban and peri-urban agriculture and its role to poverty reduction and food security in and around Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. As principal investigator. Funded by Bahir Dar Univ.
2010/11. Poverty and vulnerability to HIV infection in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. As principal investigator. Funded by Bahir Dar University.