Expert Researcher

Gashaw Ayele

About

I have proven track-record working for local and international institutions at various capacities. I am proactive in learning and developing skills in multidisciplinary setting. I have had accumulated experience in Project formulations and implementations. I also exercised leadership at different levels, including department head at an academic institution. Currently, I am a ‘Research Fellow’ at a regional (Horn of Africa) independent think-tank. My academic background is in Economics (BA), and International & Development Economics (MSc). I am good at working with several statistical software and programming languages (such as Java, C++, Matlab, EViews, STATA, SPSS, and Microfit). I have Hands-on experience and deep interest in problem solving researches. I am Certified trainer of Microfinance: Jointly Certified by the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Centre, and the Development Bank of China Tokyo.

Publications: 4
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All work from Gashaw Ayele
22 February 2017

Contribution of Early-Age Circumstances to Inequalities in Educational Achievement: A Within and Across Age Cohorts Comparative Study for Ethiopia

The academic evaluation system that focuses on rewarding students with high achievements and penalizing the low achievers by only looking at their test scores is misleading and unjust. First, inequality due to predetermined child circumstances should b …

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30 November 2016

Inequality of Opportunity in Child Health in Ethiopia

Early childhood development such as child health and nutrition is shown to affect success and wellbeing later in adulthood. While child health and nutrition are influenced by among others, parental inputs and access to public services, the latter are n …

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1 August 2015

Do Tax Structures Optimize Private Fixed Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Data Envelopment Analysis

“The paper discovers a tax structure that optimizes Private Fixed Investments (PFI) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It applies Data Envelopment Analysis technique to drive a country-by-country and a year-on-year PFI efficiency scores (for each of the samp …

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1 July 2014

Microfinance Institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda: Loan Outreach to the Poor and the Quest for Financial Viability

Loan outreach—financial viability nexus is among the unsettled issues in microfinance literature: unyielding stance favoring viability for increased outreach to the poor (depth) versus a trade-off view justifying subsidized Microfinance Institutions (M …

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