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income generation not only for about 700,000 dairy farming households, but also for farm input dealers, dairy equipment …
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been partly an outcome of a 20 percent increase in the number of households engaged in dairy farming, and an increase (21 …
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About 2.3 million children under the age of five are too short for their age An estimated 250,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia
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,200 calories. As such, a population of 17.5 million Ugandans in 3.1 million households were unable to meet the minimum caloric …
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households and the impact of these challenges on production and firm activities. The findings are consistent with previous … agricultural products mainly benefit the low income households whose consumption basket is mainly food items. In a quest for …
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This study evaluates the potential impact of the recent world food prices on the Ugandan economy and possible policy options to respond to it. Uganda is largely a net exporter of some cereals whose prices increasing considerably especially maize. Using a recursive dynamic CGE model, we attempt...
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Uganda still lags behind in its tax collections at the domestic level. For most of the commodities the tax collection effort is not more than 5 percent relative to the statutory rate of 18 percent. This results into a situation where the government has to rely a lot on foreign financing. From...
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. We identify four types of households which are considered to be vulnerable to be targeted with cash transfers. This … includes households with orphans, old individuals, young and labor constrained. Extending a cash transfer to these households …
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households relative to the urban households. A major contribution of this paper is that investments in agriculture particularly …
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The paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/2000 and … with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are about 60 percent … Uganda are similar to causes of poverty and therefore policies to raise the earning capacity of poor households would help …
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