Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for the widely divergent diets throughout the country us...

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Main Authors: Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Ssekabira, Haruna, Aduayom, Dede H.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: United Nations University 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151273

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