ABSTRACT
Uganda's excellent record in reducing the national incidence of monetary poverty over the 1990s is widely known. However, longitudinal household survey data reveal that this net aggregate reduction was accompanied by substantial mobility into as well as out of poverty (Okidi and McKay, 2003). A majority of those that were poor in 1992 had escaped by 1999, but a substantial minority were left behind and many others fell into poverty. Against a background of strong macroeconomic performance in Uganda over this decade, there was a significant variation in individual experiences of poverty movements, and it is important to understand the factors, many of which are individual or local, that contributed to this.
