Education, incomes and poverty in Uganda in the 1990s

This paper examines the relationship between poverty and education in Uganda in the 1990s. It shows how growth in living standards and poverty reduction during that period was fastest for more educated households. Income growth at the household level is disaggregated into earnings growth from three kinds of activity: farming, non-agricultural self-employment and wage employment. The direct productivity effects of education on earnings from each income source are estimated and found to have increased over time. The role of education in determining access to different sources of income is also assessed.