poverty persistence and transitions in Uganda, a country that was both at the centre of Africa's HIV/AIDS pandemic and … experienced impressive poverty reduction during the 1990's. Through a combined discrete choice and micro growth level approach we … households moving into poverty. However, households affected by ill health also experience larger land and livestock reductions …

The aim of this paper is to document and explain the changing nature of urban poverty in East Africa since 1970, in … understanding the changes in urban poverty and politics …

the two assessments conducted as part of the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Process (UPPAP), to gain insights on …This paper develops the current understanding of the significant variation in individual experiences of poverty … strongly on earlier work by Okidi, with different authors, exploiting the available panel data sets for Uganda. The paper …

intergenerational transmission of poverty in rural Uganda. I focus on the factors that contribute to chronic poverty in rural Uganda … by AIDS and on older people of the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and the gender aspects in the transmission … of intergenerational poverty in the context of the AIDS epidemic. Data from 15 case study households, drawn from the …

Using an eight-year panel of 1,309 households from Uganda, the study investigates the extent to which household … dynamics influence chronic poverty. The study argues that changes in household welfare might result either in a demographic … likelihood of a household living in chronic poverty …

emphasis on the responsibility of communities to overcome the often structural problems of poverty and exclusion. Such … sceptics. Uganda provides a particularly interesting context to explore these debates, not least because it has become a …-funded Northern Uganda Social Action Fund, offers greater support to the sceptical position, not least because of the ways in which …

The paper highlights Uganda's main antipoverty programs and uses consumption expenditure data of panel households to … characterize chronic poverty by tracking households' poverty statuses over time. Although the majority of households moved into and … out of poverty during the 1990s, all the panel households that experienced persistent poverty for at least five years were …

Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya experience chronic poverty and often express the belief that formal education … may be an alternative route out of poverty. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance and formal education in … poverty through employment and gains in skills and knowledge. Quantitative analyses indicate that parental wealth and primary …

of chronic poverty and vulnerability. In this paper we seek empirically and theoretically to understand the dynamics of … does chronic poverty foster patterns of adverse incorporation in GPNs for poor workers and producers? Secondly, to what … workers are incorporated, be said to produce and reproduce chronic poverty? We focus here on the worst forms of adverse …