Beyond Income Poverty : Nonmonetary Dimensions of Poverty in Uganda
The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the obser...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/916971498245316443/Beyond-income-poverty-nonmonetary-dimensions-of-poverty-in-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27609 |
| Summary: | The proportion of Ugandan households
living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and
2013. Using household survey data, this paper analyzes
nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and
trends, to explore whether the observed reduction in
monetary-based poverty are reflected in the nonmonetary
indicators of poverty. The results show that Uganda's
progress in reducing poverty is strongly reflected in
several nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The analysis
finds that the trends in many nonmonetary indicators are
consistent with the trend of monetary-based measure of
poverty. The paper also examines whether progress has been
as fast as would be expected, given Uganda's impressive
performance in reducing poverty. Overall, the evidence
indicates that progress on nonmonetary poverty was
consistent with expectations, and faster than what would be
expected, for some indicators, based on other
countries' experiences. This finding is similar to
Uganda's progress on reducing monetary poverty, which
is also at the expected level based on experience in other countries. |
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