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Uganda - A new set of utility consistent poverty lines

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  • Bjorn van Campenhout
  • Haruna Sekabira
  • Fiona Nattembo

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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 We argue that an outdated poverty line that does not take into consideration the spatial variation of diets in Uganda could explain the divergence.

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  • Bjorn van Campenhout & Haruna Sekabira & Fiona Nattembo, 2015. "Uganda - A new set of utility consistent poverty lines," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-129, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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