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Despite the extensive modernization of Ethiopia in the last 120 years, As Of 2006 the overwhelming majority of the population are peasants who still live from harvest to harvest, and are vulnerable to crop failures.


REFERENCES

  • For the period before 1800, information is based on Richard R.K. Pankhurst, ''An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia'' (London: Lalibela House, 1961), pp.236f; information about related epidemics taken from Pankhurst ''Introduction'', pp. 239f.


  • For the period after 1800 through 1935, information is based on Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University Press, 1968), pp. 216-222.