An African Beacon of Prosperity: En kvalitativ analys av fattigdomsbekämpning och hållbar utveckling i Etiopien

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the connection between poverty reduction and sustainable development through strategies used for the reduction of poverty. With the methodology of content analysis of three policy documents to provide and easy overview of how the government of Ethiopia is planning to achieve sustainable and long-term poverty alleviation. The focus of this study will be on Ethiopia, a country with very high economic growth in the past years but still with hight poverty rates. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the already existing and broad knowledge and research of sustainable development and poverty alleviation and contribute with more research in Ethiopia where the research done in this specific area and region is not in abundance. In this study all dimensions of sustainable development, social, economic and ecological are included to get a more holistic picture of the sustainable development in the government’s plans and its challenges. The theoretical frameworks used in this study are mostly theories about economic growth, globalization and sustainable development. The results of the study show that sustainable development is apparent in the plans for reducing poverty and in some cases the sustainable development is used as an strategy to alleviate poverty, but what those plans lack is a more holistic connection between the strategies used for poverty reduction and the plans for sustainable development.