The Uganda Poverty Assessment Report 2016

World Bank

The Uganda Poverty Assessment Report 2016

2016

World Bank

Uganda’s progress in reducing poverty from 1993 to 2006 is a remarkable story of success that has been well told. The narrative of Uganda’s continued, albeit it slightly slower, progress in reducing poverty since 2006 is less familiar. This was a period in which growth slowed as the gains from reforms years earlier had been fully realized, and weak infrastructure and increasing corruption increasingly constrained private sector competitiveness (World Bank 2015). This report examines Uganda’s progress in reducing poverty, with a specific focus on the period 2006 to 2013. The report shows that high growth from 2006 to 2010 benefited poverty reduction. Before turning in further detail to the key findings of the report, it is important to note that the analysis undertaken in this report is only possible because the Government of Uganda has invested in a high quality series of household surveys to document progress in wellbeing since 1993. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has conducted high-quality household surveys that every three to four years that have provided a comparable series of data on poverty and other household characteristics for the last twenty years. Uganda is one of the few countries in the region to have achieved this level of comparable, frequent poverty monitoring over time. Without this, it would not be possible to document the lessons Uganda provides.

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access to markets agricultural commodities agricultural extension agricultural growth agricultural inputs agricultural practices agricultural production agricultural productivity agricultural products agricultural sector agricultural technology cash transfers child nutrition crop production death drinking water drought economic growth extreme poverty farm income farmers food consumption food crops food prices food production household consumption household income household surveys human capital income income distribution insurance irrigation land management land ownership land reform livestock production malnutrition nutrition nutritional status poverty poverty alleviation poverty reduction rural areas rural development rural population rural poverty rural transformation sanitation savings school feeding smallholder farmers social security targeting unemployment war

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Savings accounts; Informal transfers; Poor; Food items; Impact on poverty; Incidence analysis; Agricultural wages; Agricultural employment; Financial instruments; Household demographics; National poverty; Food share; Conflict; Sustainable poverty reduction; Household welfare; Child mortality; Household composition; Farm employment; Informal insurance; Rural; Livestock income; Farm incomes; Land size; School feeding programs; Poverty line; Rural urban national; Food basket; Indicators of poverty; Rural financial institutions; Technical assistance; Rural area; Income poverty; Household living standards; Poverty severity; Poverty incidence; Poverty analysis; Farm activities; Poverty gap; Poverty reducing; Food policy; Household heads; Rural poverty reduction; Income support; Public safety nets; Measures; Rural villages; Farm income growth; National poverty lines; Poor households; Rural migration; Poverty measures; Income growth; Poverty assessment; Food poverty line; Lack of information; Employment in agriculture; International poverty line; Political economy; Inequality; Household head; Rural populations; Food poverty; Formal safety nets; Food expenditure; Poor people; National poverty line; Female farmers; Income earning potential; Food expenditures; Poor farmers; Consumption smoothing; Rural households; Poor” households; Extreme poverty line; Employment income; Food needs; Income volatility; Human development; Household size; Food markets; Poverty levels; Rural migrants; Remote rural areas; Female-headed households; Poverty poverty; Transfers; Poor areas; Nutrition outcomes; Safety nets; Agricultural produce; Household survey; Rural income; Participatory poverty assessment; Lack of knowledge; Poverty rates; Crop income; Social programs; Feeding programs; Poverty indicators; Agricultural incomes; Agricultural wage; Economic diversification; Employment opportunities; Village economies; Risks; Better access to markets; Rural financial markets; Informal insurance mechanisms; Poor communities; Safety net programs; Access to services; Chronic malnutrition; Impact of shocks; Food goods; Per capita consumption; Counterfactual; Rural electrification; Farm self-employment; Poverty status; Private transfers; Public spending; Poverty index; Poverty lines; Farm work; Poverty estimates

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