Uganda and Poverty
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- Aid and Reform in Africa
- S Devarajan; D. Dollar; T. Holmgren / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999
- Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced ...
- 'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?
- Simon Appleton / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a...
- Latest gender research fails to influence Bank's particiaptory poverty assessments
- A. Whitehead; M. Lockwood / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 1999
- Looks at six Poverty Asssesments (PAs) conducted by World Bank teams and the way in which gender issues are treated in them (in Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda). This paper trys to identify the analytical frameworks behind these re...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Does Swedish debt relief contribute to economic growth? Does economic growth reach the poor? Does Sweden influence policies in partner countries? Have donors supported the "right" reforms?
- H. White / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
- Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during t...
- Globalization, poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a political economy appraisal
- Y. Tsikata / OECD Development Centre, 2001
- Paper explores the policies and political context underlying the response of African countries to globalisation, with an emphasis on trade liberalisation. African countries have had mixed experiences with globalisation, with so...
- Globalisation and Income Inequality in Uganda
- A. Bigsten / OECD Development Centre, 2000
- Reviews the evolution of Uganda’s income distribution and poverty since the early 1980s, and assess the role that global factors played in the process.
- Effective learning for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: donor interventions and the role of postgraduate training
- P. Bennell; E. Masunungure; N. Ng'ethe; G. Wilson / Eldis Document Store, 2000
- Significant poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be achieved without strong policy analysis and management capacity both in the public sector and civil society at large. This report provides a comprehensive needs assessment ...
- Comparing PPA and household surveys on poverty trends: what recommendations arise from this analysis?
- R. McGee / Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development, Uganda, 2000
- This article results from consultancy work attempting to clarify the picture on poverty trends, identify areas which require further work and any further findings from the analysis which require policy action. This analytical work foc...
- Does Participatory Poverty Assessment improve the effectiveness of poverty reduction policy?
- A. Norton / Overseas Development Institute, 2001
- This article takes a critical look at participatory poverty assessment (PPA) as a methodology and investigates the use of this methodology in various case-studies. The article: summarises key findings from recent...
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