In 2004, Addis Ababa introduced the Integrated Housing Development Program (IHDP), an innovative program designed to provide low-cost and affordable housing while also generating employment and building human capital and entrepreneurship in the construction sector. The fundamental question of this study is whether the IHDP has generated more jobs than would have been created if it had only been a housing program, rather than a housing plus employment creation program.
A purposely-designed survey was conducted by the World Bank in collaboration with the Ethiopian Economic Association. The Addis Ababa Construction Enterprise Survey (AACES) included quantitative information on firms and their workers, and was complemented by qualitative evidence collected by means of in-depth interviews with respondents.
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