This report relies on several data sources. The main source providing the poverty, inequality and labor figures herein is the 2019/20 Household Budget Survey (Inquérito sobre Orçamento Familiar, IOF2019/2020)...
Accelerating digital transformation can enable faster economic growth for Uganda. The digital sector represents one of the fastest growing sectors in Uganda, with positive spillover effects on other sectors...
Uganda’s rural households and the poor experience more frequent shocks and have limited safety nets, leading to higher rates of vulnerability and making it difficult to escape poverty. During the last...
Accelerating agricultural development remains an important pathway out of poverty in Uganda, but growth in agricultural income observed between 2013-2014 and 2019-2020 was to a large extent associated...
Opportunities to accumulate human capital and access basic services remain low and highly unequal for children in Uganda due to substantial disparities across locations and welfare group. The Human Opportunity...
The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the resilience of the people. The COVID-19 pandemic...
The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the resilience of the people. About 30 percent...
As Uganda builds back from the COVID-19 shock, the Ugandan government is strengthening its commitment to a more gender-inclusive and sustainable economy. This report supports these efforts by describing...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on Mozambican households have created an urgent need for timely data on which to base well informed interventions and policy responses. In order...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on Mozambican households have created an urgent need for timely data on which to base well informed interventions and policy responses. In order...
Uganda’s real GDP grew at 2.9 percent in FY20, less than half the 6.8 percent recorded in FY19, due to the effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis, and is expected to grow at a similar level in FY21...
At the moment, a child born in Uganda will be only 38 percent as productive when she grows up as she can be if she enjoyed complete education and full health, according to the human capital index (HCI)...
Mozambique’s economy has experienced strong growth over the last two decades, with GDP expanding at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent. However, this growth has been unequally shared and rural areas...
Mozambique has experienced strong and sustained economic growth in the last two decades. Growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2016...
Mozambique has experienced strong and sustained economic growth in the last two decades. Growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2016...
Mozambique has experienced strong and sustained economic growth in the last two decades. Growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2016...