Regional or National Poverty Lines?: The Case of Uganda in the 1990s

Simon Appleton

No DP2003-90, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

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 focusing on Uganda, a country where widening spatial inequalities in the 1990s have caused concern.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Income; Poverty; Public welfare; Regional economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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