The impact of the participation of women's micro and small enterprises on poverty in Hadiya zone, Ethiopia

This study aimed to analyze the impact of women's micro and small enterprises' (MSEs) participation on poverty in Hadiya zone, Southern Ethiopia. The research was grounded on cross-sectional survey data from 385 women who were 215 MSEs participants and 170 non-participants that were designated through multistage sampling techniques. Both primary and secondary data have utilized to address the goal of the examination. The descriptive statistics, in combination with econometric method were used for analyzing primary quantitative data. A propensity score matching was utilized to analyze the impact of women MSEs participation small on poverty. The consequences of the propensity score matching investigation indicated that women participation in MSEs have expanded household expenditure by 7891.464Birr for participant and non-participant households. The sensitivity analysis result showed that the impact results estimated were unstable to unobserved selection bias. It was presumed that women' participation in MSEs had positive and significant impact on households food, non-food and total expenditure per adult per year. Inline exertions of government and other partners should support women to shift from non-informal economic sector to the formal sector to attain their basic needs as a result to reduce poverty.