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Uganda: A new set of utility consistent poverty lines

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Uganda has seen impressive economic growth and substantial poverty reductions over the past few decades. Today, official headcount poverty stands at about 20 per cent. However, recent research relying on non-monetary wealth indicators challenges official poverty statistics and suggests that headcount poverty is about 60 per cent higher. We argue that an outdated poverty line that does not take into consideration the spatial variation of diets in Uganda could explain the divergence. In this paper, we document how we estimate a new set of utility consistent poverty lines for Uganda using the Uganda National Household Survey of 2012-13 and use these updated poverty lines to calculate poverty. We find poverty levels to be higher and much more in line with what other studies suggest.

ISBN
978-92-9256-018-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/129

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Planning Models; Planning Policy
Thema
poverty lines
diet
basic needs
spatial patterns
Uganda

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Van Campenhout, Bjorn
Sekabira, Haruna
Nattembo, Fiona
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/018-8
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Van Campenhout, Bjorn
  • Sekabira, Haruna
  • Nattembo, Fiona
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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