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Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index,...
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Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries. This paper compares the price levels of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa with those of other...
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International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However, the consumer price index is subject to various types of measurement bias. This paper uses Engel...
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and Uganda probe the effects of different revenue types on citizens' actions to monitor government spending. Roughly half …
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education and health are key policy goals for Uganda. This paper builds on the Service Delivery Indicator study by further … exploring issues related to the quality of service delivery in Uganda. The paper analyzes the quality of service from a poverty … perspective, to contribute to the ongoing policy debate on the quality of service delivery in Uganda, especially in the education …
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survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the … Uganda's progress in reducing poverty is strongly reflected in several nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The analysis finds … paper also examines whether progress has been as fast as would be expected, given Uganda's impressive performance in …
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This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield … Uganda. The paper also examines the impact of other factors that could affect input adoption, by using a relatively long …
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in public-private partnership schools in Uganda, wherein teacher self-beliefs are contrasted with their beliefs about …
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Uganda away from inequity and toward universal health care. A reproductive health voucher program was implemented in 20 …
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This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment …
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