Constructing Poverty Trends in Uganda: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Author: Rosemary McGee

Source: Development and Change, Volume 35, Number 3, June 2004 , pp. 499-523(25)

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Abstract:

In late 1999, apparently contradictory pictures of what was happening to poverty in Uganda emerged from the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) and the household survey. This article analyses certain conceptual and methodological characteristics of the PPA and the pictures of poverty trends arising from it, with a view to dispelling confusion and to better understanding the relationship between these and the pictures emerging from survey data. It argues that the apparently contradictory visions, when explored carefully, are found to be compatible, and concludes that deeper and less oppositional understandings of the purpose of PPAs vis-à-vis surveys for poverty assessment are an important and timely contribution to current research and knowledge about poverty.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00363.x

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Publication date: 2004-06-01