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Title:Poverty in Uganda
Author:Byekwaso, NdinwaneISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:37
Issue:126
Pages:517-525
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:poverty reduction
economic development
research methods
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2010.530950
Abstract:In a recent book entitled 'Uganda's economic reforms: insider accounts', (F. Kuteesa et al., 2010), Uganda's economic performance is portrayed as a role model in reducing poverty. The present paper is a critique of two chapters in the book, one by A. Whitworth and T. Williamson (p. 1-34), focusing on economic performance and poverty reduction, and another by M. Kakande (p. 226-245), dealing with poverty monitoring. Using the perspective of peasants in rural areas and informal sector traders in urban areas, particularly Kampala City, the critique focuses on the weaknesses of the use in the two articles of economic growth rates and poverty reduction levels in determining the portrayed good economic performance in Uganda. It argues that growth rates give a false impression of economic performance, and that the method of measuring poverty reduction in Uganda on the basis of consumption expenditure has numerous shortfalls. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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