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Vulnerability and poverty dynamics in Uganda, 1992-1999

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  • Kasirye, Ibrahim

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The paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/2000 and to estimate the impact of household characteristics on vulnerability. The likelihood of future poverty is estimated based on the expected mean and variance of household consumption. Education, spatial characteristics and access to community infrastructure are found to have important impacts on vulnerability. Specifically the reduction in vulnerability to poverty increases with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are about 60 percent more vulnerable compared to their counterparts in Central Uganda. The study also finds that causes of vulnerability in Uganda are similar to causes of poverty and therefore policies to raise the earning capacity of poor households would help both vulnerability and poverty.

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  • Kasirye, Ibrahim, 2007. "Vulnerability and poverty dynamics in Uganda, 1992-1999," Research Series 150484, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eprcrs:150484
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.150484
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    1. Buyinza, Faisal, 2011. "Performance and Survival of Ugandan Manufacturing firms in the context of the East African Community," Research Series 150477, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).

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