Education, incomes and poverty in Uganda in the 1990s

By S. Appleton. 2001

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• Impacts of the Universal Primary Education Policy on Educational Attainment and Private Costs in Rural Uganda. (2008, unknown): “After obtaining the education cost for each child in all households, we find the overall primary to secondary cost ratio at 1:9.8, which is a little higher than the previous ratio of 1:9.6 found by Appleton (2001).”
• The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing (2006, background): “In contrast, in Uganda, from 1992 to 1999, returns to education increased markedly (Appleton, 2002) and in Ghana from 1987 to 1991 there is evidence of rising returns (Canagarajah and Thomas, 1997).”
• Poverty persistence and transitions in Uganda: A combined qualitative and quantitative analysis (2006, unknown): “Patterns of poverty dynamics in Uganda Adopting the accepted poverty lines for Uganda calculated by Appleton (2001), which show the population identified as poor to have fallen from 55.”
• Credit demand and credit rationing in the informal financial sector in Uganda (2005, unknown): “This dataset has been used by a number of researchers for a wide range of purposes (e.g. Appleton 2001; Lawson et al. 2003)), but to our knowledge no work has yet been published on the credit situation based on this survey.”
• Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, background): “With growth came reductions in urban and rural poverty, both as a result of increased agricultural productivity and increased sources of off-farm income (Appleton, 2001a; Appleton, 2001b).”
• Assessing the Extent and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Low Income Countries: Issues and Evidence (2003, background): “Section 4 discusses the options for measuring and characterizing chronic poverty in situations where standard longitudinal datasets are not available.”
• Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education? (2008, background): “(Appleton and Balihuta, 1996: 424). Thus, this study finds that education can raise the productivity of farm workers in several ways. Appleton (2001) in another study finds that more education is associated with higher levels of household welfare, the effect depending on the level of education and t”
• The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education (2005, background): “Moreover, this increase has undoubtedly helped reduce inequalities in primary enrolment rates between Ugandan regions, and between boys and girls (Appleton 2001a).10 Finally, it is also worth noting that Uganda’s UPE policy has been part of a broader effort on the part of the Ugandan government to…”
• Education and poverty reduction in Tanzania (2007, background): “Evidence from other countries (Mingat and Tan 1996; Appleton 2001) suggests that as primary enrolments rise and the requirements of the labour market change, the rate of return to primary education falls relative to the rate of return for secondary education.”