On the determinants of child nutrition among urban poor households in Uganda: evidence of gender differentials

Ssewanyana, Sarah

doi:10.4314/ajep.v9i1.24268

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“…The challenges facing decision makers in the years to come is how to meet the rapidly increasing urban food demand, while reducing dependence on imports, and achieving an efficient and dynamic distribution of nutritious foods at reasonable prices to the poorest sectors of urban populations, while creating jobs in the food marketing and distribution sectors. 61…”

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Urban Household Characteristics and Dietary Diversity

2016

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Background: The world's population is increasingly becoming urbanized. If the current urban growth rate is to continue, new and unprecedented challenges for food security will be inevitable. Dietary diversity has been used to ascertain food security status albeit at the multicountry and country levels. Thus, household-level studies in urban settings, particularly in sub-Sahara African, are few. Yet, it is imperative that assessments of food security are undertaken particularly in urban settings, due to the projected fast rate of urbanization and the challenges of attaining food security. Objective: To examine household characteristics and dietary diversity. Methods: The study uses data from 452 households from the second round of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) EDULINK urban poverty and health study. Bivariate and multivariate analyses are undertaken. Results: Mean dietary diversity for all households is 6.8. Vegetables have the highest diversity, followed by cereal-based and grain products. Household characteristics that have statistically significant associations with dietary diversity include sex and level of education of household head, household wealth quintile, and source of food. Conclusions: There is high dietary diversity in the study communities of Accra but low consumption of foods rich in micronutrient, such as fruits and milk/dairy products. The study brings to fore issues related to resource-disadvantaged entities of the urban system, namely, females, poor households, and the non-educated who have food insecurity problems.

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Urban Household Characteristics and Dietary Diversity

2016

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“…To date, much of what we know about the taxation versus employment nexus and its impact on public expenditure lies in macroeconomics (Kotlikoff et al, 1984;Shin et al, 2012), through the traditional Keynesian model of economic growth, where taxes affect households consumption through reducing the disposable income available for household consumption if the taxes are high, disable income reduces and thus consumption reduces, and given the fact that under these models income is either consumed or saved, thus a high tax on incomes reduces savings to (Kotlikoff et al, 1984). Empirically there have been several studies investigating the impact of taxes on different macroeconomic various, and these among others include (Almunia et al, 2015;Mawejje & Munyambonera, 2016;Ssewanyana & Okidi, 2008;Terefe & Teera, 2018) in Uganda and (Alloza, 2020;Ameyaw et al, 2015;Bartkus, 2017;Bikas & Jurevičiūtė, 2016;Bilek et al, 2021;Davies et al, 2021;Ewa et al, 2020;Hamoudi, 2019;Hoppe et al, 2020;Hysa, 2019;Levell et al, 2020;Lyeonov & Michalkova, 2021;Merima et al, 2012;Park & Park, 2018;Pohwani et al, 2019;Sahebe et al, 2020;Sari & Mulyati, 2018) conducted elsewhere as discussed below.…”

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“…For instance, a 10 to 45% tax rate kicks in at 475 USD of income, not to mention the 18% value-added tax (VAT) added on everything that one buys (MFPED, 2020d). Traditionally, a standard income tax rate in Uganda has hovered around 30% (Ssewanyana & Okidi, 2008;Terefe & Teera, 2018), although this may vary with the level of income earned by the taxpayer. Such high tax rates make it extremely impossible to build capital in low-income countries, and Uganda is no exception.…”

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Asymmetric Analysis of the Impact of Taxation on Unemployment in Uganda

Mukoki,

Mukisa,

Ssebulime

et al. 2024

East Afr. j. bus. econ.

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Uganda, like most developing countries, has one of the highest tax rates not only in Africa but also in the world. This explains the numerous challenges faced in mobilizing sufficient revenues to fight poverty and improve people’s economic welfare. We, therefore, use a more recent nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL) to analyze the impact of higher taxes on the unemployment rate in Uganda. Results indicate that total Unemployment in Uganda is a negative function of both an increase in tax and a negative change in tax. Specifically, if taxes increase, then unemployment decreases by almost 3.9%, and if taxes decrease, then unemployment increases by about 4.9%. Also, the unemployment level decreased by 0.06% with a decrease in the gross capital formation (GFKF). Finally, unemployment also decreases with a rise in GDP and decreases with a decrease in GDP. In a nutshell, Uganda lacks the possibility of making the economy more productive and thus only relies on taxing an already overtaxed economy. Overtaxing an economy kills the possibility of ever building a formidable capital base that can stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty and unemployment. The government, therefore, should cut taxes and level the playing field regarding tax policies for foreign and home-grown investors. Finally, policymakers should also aim to unlock the potential of the informal sector not only to create jobs but also to widen the tax base

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“…Food security has been defined as "access by all people, at all times to sufficient food for an active and healthy life" (Asogwa and Umeh, 2012). It embraces "minimum availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways" (Nakabo-Ssewanyana, 2003).…”

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“…And yet these peasants and their families suffer more from hunger than the poorest in urban areas; In the same vein, Manlosa et al (2019) identified capital asset substitution as coping strategy with negative effect on food security status in Ethiopia. Nakabo-Ssewanyana (2003) found out that raising incomes has an effective impact on the reduction of food insecurity, while parents' education is the main factor that affects significantly the long-term children's nutrition in Uganda. In Nigeria, a research on food security and coping strategies revealed that relying on less preferred and less expensive food, limiting the meal consumed by the adult, and borrowing food or money to buy food (Mukhtar, 2019), children eating first, leasing assets, relying on help from relatives and friends, and skipping meals (Mukhtar, 2019).…”

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Food security status and coping strategies among small-scale crop farmers in Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda

Maniriho¹,

Musabanganji²,

Lebailly³

2022

JCEA

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This paper aims to determine the level of food security of small-scale crop farmers and to identify coping strategies for food security mostly adopted by small-scale crop farmers in the Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda. Data were collected using a questionnaire administered to a random sample of 401 small scale crop producers in the study area. CARI approach and descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. This methodology was chosen by the fact that it enables to have disaggregated food security indicators. Results show that 86.61% of the sample households are food secure, while 13.39% are food insecure. These results also indicate that spending savings is the most adopted stress-coping strategy among the livelihood-based coping strategies. The most adopted among consumption-based strategies are relying on less preferred or less expensive food, and reducing the quantities consumed by adults for children. The overall CARI console analysis shows that the majority of the sampled households are not food insecure, i.e. they are not vulnerable with respect to adopted strategies to cope with food shortage. Therefore, it is recommended that strategies should be initiated to increase crop productivity and output, to guarantee market access to small-scale farmers for stable agricultural prices and farm incomes, to enhance the livelihood diversification to cope with under-employment in the agricultural sector to benefit rural non-farm sources and to complement farm incomes.

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On the determinants of child nutrition among urban poor households in Uganda: evidence of gender differentials

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Urban Household Characteristics and Dietary Diversity

Urban Household Characteristics and Dietary Diversity

Asymmetric Analysis of the Impact of Taxation on Unemployment in Uganda

Food security status and coping strategies among small-scale crop farmers in Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda

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