Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129463 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/129
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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 We argue that an outdated poverty line that does not take into consideration the spatial variation of diets in Uganda could explain the divergence. In this paper, we document how we estimate a new set of utility consistent poverty lines for Uganda using the Uganda National Household Survey of 2012-13 and use these updated poverty lines to calculate poverty. We find poverty levels to be higher and much more in line with what other studies suggest.
Subjects: 
poverty lines
diet
basic needs
spatial patterns
Uganda
JEL: 
I32
O55
O21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-018-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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