Uganda Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report 2002

Uganda Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper -- Progress Report 2001, March 2, 2001

Country Case Study

Recent developments in public policy towards land in Uganda have focused on two key areas; resolving historical tenure problems by defining and entrenching the land rights of all Ugandans, and increasing the efficiency of use of land for economic growth while addressing environmental concerns. However, integration of land issues into the broader national development strategy has, by and large u...

- 1 - More Than Income : Pro - Poor Livestock Development Policy in Uganda

ABOUT LADDER LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutio...

Integrating Land Issues and Land Policy with Poverty Reduction and Rural Development in Southern Africa

This paper is a synthesis of land issues and land policy constraints in Southern Africa prepared for the World Bank Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa and the Middle East held in Kampala, Uganda, 29 April to 2 May 2002. It synthesizes key points made in commissioned papers, plenary comments, and facilitated discussions from a special Southern Africa Working Group attended by conference ...

SAGA Working Paper October 2003 Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda, 1992-1999: A Multidimensional Analysis of Changes in Living Standards

This paper examines Uganda’s progress on poverty reduction when poverty is measured in multiple dimensions. In particular, I consider poverty measures that are defined across household expenditures per capita or household assets, children’s health status, and in some cases, mother’s literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty measure, and sampling error. In gener...