Political Geography: Uganda / Topic: Poverty

Publication Date:: 04-2004
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict prevention should go hand in hand. They are the two blades of the scissors required to cut the strangler's cord choking Africa. Some 2.5 million Africans will die of AIDS in 2004. One in four African countries presently suffers from the effects of armed conflict.
Topic:: Security, Human Welfare, Non-Governmental Organization, Poverty, and War
Political Geography:: Uganda and Africa

Author:: Abebe Shimeles and Arne Bigsten
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in some African countries and calculate pro-poor growth indices. Different growth patterns are simulated for Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution should depend on the elasticity of the growth-equity tradeoff. We also discuss what the appropriate ingredients of a pro-poor strategy would be in the African setting.
Topic:: Economics, Human Welfare, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda, Africa, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia

Author:: Jannik Boesen, Sarah Kasozi, and Richard Miiro
Publication Date:: 01-2004
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Danish Institute for International Studies
Abstract:: This paper looks at the potential for poverty alleviation in one part of Uganda, based on a poverty analysis of the local, and on analyses of the local civil society and of development discourses that are often dominated by the central over the local. In response to calls for micro-studies of actually existing civil society it points to the usefulness of including community wide processes and hegemonic discourses in analyses of the local civil society's development role.
Topic:: Agriculture, Civil Society, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda and Africa

Author:: Helle Munk Ravnborg, Michael Kidoido, Zarupa Akello, Jannik Boesen, Sarah Kasozi, Anne Sorensen, Bernard Bashaasha, and Veronica Wabukawo
Publication Date:: 01-2004
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Danish Institute for International Studies
Abstract:: The overall objective of the Danida supported Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS) in Uganda is to improve the conditions for the poorest part of the population and contribute to reduce gender-based inequalities in Uganda in general and in the pilot focus districts in particular. Late in 2000, Danida asked Department of Agricultural Economics, Makerere University, Kampala, and Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, to form an external task group with the purpose of monitoring the gender and poverty impact of the ASPS.
Topic:: Agriculture, Civil Society, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda and Africa

Author:: Simon Appleton
Publication Date:: 12-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: Absolute poverty lines are often derived from the cost of obtaining sufficient calories. Where staples vary across regions, such poverty lines may differ depending on whether they are set using national or regional food baskets. Regional poverty lines are open to the objection that they may be contaminated by income effects. This paper explores this issue by focussing on Uganda, a country where widening spatial inequalities in the 1990s have caused concern. Conflicting results from earlier studies have suggested that the spatial pattern of poverty in Uganda is very sensitive to whether national or regional food baskets are used in setting poverty lines. We confirm this suggestion by comparing the spatial profile of poverty in 1993 using national and regional poverty lines. However, since the regions consuming the more expensive staple sources of calories are also those with higher incomes, using simple regional poverty lines is problematic. Instead, a method of setting regional poverty lines is considered that adjusts for income differentials between regions. Even with this adjustment, the use of regional food baskets implies a markedly different.
Topic:: Development, International Trade and Finance, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda and Africa

Author:: George Mavrotas
Publication Date:: 12-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: The paper uses an aid disaggregation approach to examine the impact of different types of aid on the fiscal sector of the aid-recipient country. It uses time-series data on different types of aid (project aid, programme aid, technical assistance and food aid) for Uganda, an important aid recipient in recent years, to estimate a model of fiscal response in the presence of aid which combines aid disaggregation and endogenous aid. The empirical findings clearly suggest the importance of the above approach for delving deeper into aid effectiveness issues since different aid categories have different effects on key fiscal variables—an impact that could not be revealed if a single figure for aid was employed. More precisely, project aid and food aid appear to cause a reduction in public investment whereas programme aid and technical assistance are positively related to public investment. The same applies for government consumption. A negligible impact on government tax and non-tax revenues, and a strong displacement of government borrowing are also found.
Topic:: Economics, International Trade and Finance, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda and Africa

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