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...
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okr-10986-274402021-04-23T14:04:37Z Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality World Bank INCLUSIVE GROWTH PROSPERITY FOR ALL SPATIAL DIFFERENCES LIVING STANDARDS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GEOGRAPHY OF LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY DENSITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHILD MORTALITY MATERNAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY LITERACY HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC INVESTMENT PLAN GEOGRAPHY OF PRODUCTION SPATIAL CONCENTRATION SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION MARKET ACCESS RETURNS TO CAPITAL CONSTRAINTS TO FLUIDITY LABOR MOBILITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE LAGGING AREAS LEADING AREAS EDUCATION ACCESS AND QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES COVERAGE AND QUALITY 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. 2017-06-28T14:39:07Z 2017-06-28T14:39:07Z 2012 Policy Note 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 English en_US Inclusive Growth Policy Note;3 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Economic & Sector Work Africa Uganda |
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INCLUSIVE GROWTH PROSPERITY FOR ALL SPATIAL DIFFERENCES LIVING STANDARDS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GEOGRAPHY OF LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY DENSITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHILD MORTALITY MATERNAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY LITERACY HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC INVESTMENT PLAN GEOGRAPHY OF PRODUCTION SPATIAL CONCENTRATION SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION MARKET ACCESS RETURNS TO CAPITAL CONSTRAINTS TO FLUIDITY LABOR MOBILITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE LAGGING AREAS LEADING AREAS EDUCATION ACCESS AND QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES COVERAGE AND QUALITY |
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INCLUSIVE GROWTH PROSPERITY FOR ALL SPATIAL DIFFERENCES LIVING STANDARDS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GEOGRAPHY OF LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY DENSITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHILD MORTALITY MATERNAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY LITERACY HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC INVESTMENT PLAN GEOGRAPHY OF PRODUCTION SPATIAL CONCENTRATION SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION MARKET ACCESS RETURNS TO CAPITAL CONSTRAINTS TO FLUIDITY LABOR MOBILITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE LAGGING AREAS LEADING AREAS EDUCATION ACCESS AND QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES COVERAGE AND QUALITY World Bank Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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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. |
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Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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Integrating Leading and Lagging Areas : A Strategy for Making Prosperity for All a Reality |
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integrating leading and lagging areas : a strategy for making prosperity for all a reality |
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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 |
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