Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality
Uganda's fast growth, which has averaged more than 7 percent during the past two decades, has helped reduce poverty the proportion of people living in poverty in the early 1990s has declined to less than half, from 56 percent to 24.5 percent b...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
Washington, DC
2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/237721468113063206/Integrating-leading-and-lagging-areas-a-strategy-for-making-prosperity-for-all-a-reality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27440 |
| Summary: | Uganda's fast growth, which has
averaged more than 7 percent during the past two decades,
has helped reduce poverty the proportion of people living in
poverty in the early 1990s has declined to less than half,
from 56 percent to 24.5 percent by 2010. However, the
reduction in poverty was uneven, and in some cases, poverty
increased and inequality persists between and within
regions. Partly driven by the uneven reduction in poverty,
persistent inequality, and rising unemployment, Ugandan
authorities have raised concern about the inclusiveness of
Uganda's development. New programs, including
prosperity for all, are being undertaken by the government
to raise the incomes of households and, hence, close the
income gap. Many developing countries are facing the same
challenge of reducing spatial differences in living
standards. The structural transformation that takes place as
countries grow from low to high incomes is accompanied with
prosperity in a few places, as has been observed from the
history of many developed countries, and is being repeated
in many developing ones, such as China, India, Indonesia,
and Sri Lanka. This note is organized into six sections.
Section two outlines the geography of living standards.
Section three describes the transformation that has already
happened in the geography of production and how it relates
to the geography of living standards. Section four analyzes
how the fluidity of two important markets in labor and land
should contribute to Uganda's transformation and where
the constraints to increased fluidity could be. A strategy
for connecting people to prosperity is presented in section
five. And finally, section six concludes with the summary of recommendations. |
|---|