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Tag: Measurement of Poverty

  • Will SDGs succeed where MDGs did not?

    Will SDGs succeed where MDGs did not?

    Case in point, there have been thousands of targeted poverty eradication initiatives for and in Greater Northern Uganda by the Government of Uganda and other actors; initiatives of which some most likely were carried out under the auspices of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and currently the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In spite of those…

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  • The Richest Man in Kole

    The Richest Man in Kole

    Mr. Okello, the richest man in my village is a smallholder farmer practising mixed farming. He cultivates mainly temporary cash crops like: cassava, millet and maize; and vegetables like boyo, abuga. Every plot of his land has fruits like mangoes, oranges, passion fruits, growing; whose leaves fall down, rot and decompose to provide manure for…

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