Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for the wid

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Van Campenhout, Bjorn ; Ssekabira, Haruna ; Aduayom, Dede H.
Institutions:	World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University
Subject:	poverty \| cost of basic needs \| revealed preferences \| Uganda

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Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number UNU-WIDER Research Paper WP2014/150 1 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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