Abstract: Since Ethiopia's inception of a pro-poor economic strategy, empirical evidence on how this policy benefited the poorest has been lacking, particularly in emerging regional states. To address the issues in this problem in accordance with pro-poor growth policy, the research utilized the ECSA surveys to apply the all-pro-poor-growth decompositions technique. According to the findings, the poorest of the poor were excluded from the benefits of such growth. Pro-poor income growth made just a minor contribution to the alleviation of absolute and relative poverty. The general income growth across all vulnerable social groups, except the disabled group on 1995-96 to 1999-2000, increased in all the entire transition periods; while at the same time the growth of pro-poor incomes showed decline inversely. Growth only benefited the poor over the non-poor on all poverty measures from 2004-05 to 2010-11. Between 2010-11 and 2015-16, there was modest pro-poor income increase among the vulnerable, but only in terms of headcount and poverty gap levels. According to the findings of the research, Ethiopian growth is not pro-poor; rather, it is anti-poor growth. To address this unprecedented result, national poverty reduction policies must be changed, with a strong emphasis on pro-poor measures.

Keywords: Pro-Poor Growth, Vulnerable Social Groups, Emerging Regions of Ethiopia, Income Growth, Income Redistribution.