households benefited from agricultural extension services. In 2011, 9.04 million households benefited from the program. There were 7,748.305 beneficiaries who participated in the Productive Safety Net Program in 2011, and 1.8 million food self-sufficient beneficiaries graduated from the Household Asset Building Program.98 The economy has experienced strong and broad-based growth over the past decade; this growth resulted in positive trends reducing poverty in both urban and rural areas. The proportion of people living below the poverty line in Ethiopia has declined from 38.7% in 2004/05, to 27.8 % in 2011/12 and is still falling steadily. The poverty targeted growth oriented expenditure increased from 47.3 billion Birr in 2009/10 to 87.6 billion in 2011/12, and is now about 70.4% of total Government spending. The increment in spending on growth-oriented pro-poor sectors reflects the commitment to eradicate overall poverty. The per capita income has increased from USD 377 in 2009/10 to USD 550 in 2012/13.99 The integrated development and micro and small-scale enterprise development programs have been used as a tool to fight unemployment in cities and urban centers. The Government was able to generate employment for 2,681,367 job seekers in the year 2010/11-2012/13 and out of these there were 1, 556,821 permanent and 1,124,546 temporary jobs. Large-scale projects undertaken by the Government also created jobs for another 1,283,254 people. 60.3% of the urban population in 2010/11, were economically active and this increased to 62.5% in 2011/12. Measures taken in urban areas have helped decrease the urban unemployment rate from 18% in 2010 to 17.5% in 2011 while youth unemployment declined from 23.7 to 23.3% in the same period.100 Due to the focus on agriculture, the production of food crops, 119.1 million quintals in 2005, rose to 191.0 million quintals in 2012. In order to ensure the right to development by the farmer, systems of enabling the farmer to obtain credit without collateral and the possibility of training through agricultural extension programs were established. Veterinary services have been substantially enlarged and implementation of the food security program has made it possible to reduce significantly the number of farmers in need of food support. Farmers have formed cooperative associations of their own and have benefitted from direct access to the market. 117