interested in wages, estimating realistic poverty lines, formulating policies for reducing poverty and income inequality, and …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed around food consumption inadequate for lifelong … health. We propose poverty lines based on the cost of a healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios … and the poverty gap. According to our proposed poverty lines, 2,283 to 2,865 million people were poor in 2022, facing a …

Uganda has seen impressive economic growth and substantial poverty reductions over the past few decades. Today …, official headcount poverty stands at about 20 per cent. However, recent research relying on non-monetary wealth indicators … challenges official poverty statistics and suggests that headcount poverty is about 60 per cent higher. We argue that an outdated …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …