This article explores the relationship between conflict, education and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Northern Uganda using a Q-squared approach, which combines and sequences qualitative and quantitative approaches. The focus is on whether people with education have greater...

Much concern has been expressed about the apparently adverse response of private investment to structural adjustment and other economic reform programmes, even in countries where these reforms appear to have been fairly successful according to other criteria. This issue is examined for the case...

In broad terms, reduction in poverty can come about through redistributions among households at an existing level of average income, or through growth in average incomes, or through a combination of the two. However, both theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that growth of average...