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Title: | Resources, Poverty and Human Development in Rural Uganda |
Author: | Bonger, Tenkir |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Pages: | 31-76 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Uganda East Africa |
Subjects: | poverty rural households Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics, Commerce natural resources Human development standard of living |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43658044 |
Abstract: | This quantitative study of poverty and human development among rural households in Uganda shows that within these households, there is a balance between the number of consumers, the number of labourers and the size of cultivated holdings. The socially and spatially better-offs, who have more investments in livestock and family labour, enjoy higher levels of land productivity and modest improvement in their per capita income. A quarter of the total income originates from non-agricultural sectors, making these sectors important avenues to poverty reduction, even among rural households. However, expenditure by those above the Poverty Line is equal to expenditure by those below. A large gap exists between the per capita income of the better-off households and that of the poor. When a human development index including assets, income, social endowments and other positive outcomes of the developement process is calculated, the differences narrow down considerably. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French and English. |