 We are presenting the post on the raw price and consumption of bad aggregation in poverty measurement and we are assessing the situation in Uganda given the offer. Severe years perhaps since 1986 when the current government took over, there has been reported decrease in poverty and the growth in GDP close to 6.8 percent. And since the government had retrieved the lion system act, there has been reported improvements in household welfare to the extent that in the 1990s when there were around 57 percent of gangs living below poverty line, it has currently reduced to close to 24 percent according to the national accounts. But the national accounts use common consumption bundles and common prices across Uganda which we know that perhaps might not be a well representative given the heterogeneity in the region based on ethnicity and regional differences. So in this side we used the cost of basic needs relying on region specific prices and region specific bundles to re-estimate and re-assist poverty estimates for Uganda. So we looked at the kind of trends and controversies within the national estimates and we are seeing that generally from 1992 to 2000 the trend was a bit reducing according to national estimates and also as adopted from Apton 2000. So we are seeing that the national estimates were kind of had a downward trend but the controversy cited from the national accounts is that the official estimates were based on a single consumption bundle and yet we know that different regions in Uganda which are actually four central march feeds on Matoke, Wachia bananas and then the north march feeds on Syrios, the west march feeds on Poletos and all these carry different prices and they are totally different bundles for each region so perhaps using a common consumption bundle or common prices perhaps will not be well representative. So still we used the heterogeneity in poverty lines using reviewed preferences to re-assist the situation against the current prevailing national assessment and when we make the reassessment we looked at surveys collected by the Uganda national household by the Uganda Bill of Statistics from 2005 and 2006, then 2009 and 2010 and then a panel which was for 2010 and 2011 and we constructed the new bundles which we compared with the existing official estimates that were available for the respective years. So from figure 3 which is here we make a comparison of the course of best needs poverty lines poverty lines which were utility consistent against the official poverty lines but we are seeing that there were some slight differences when you give each region if you use region specific prices and region specific bundles we see that there were slight increments given each region from the national estimates for instance like the central which was close to 20% the central region here goes right above 20% using utility consistent poverty lines but what was the reason behind the slight differences so we found that the prices per kilo calorie of the foods that are consumed mostly for each region were different actually explaining the difference between the official estimates which were using a common consumption bundle and a common pricing scheme again is the one which was region specific and region specific in terms of prices and in terms of bundles. So we see here that for the central region where we had the utility consistent poverty line which was close to over later above 600 600 Ugandan shillings against the official which was in the same year 0506 the official was reporting for central region being a little high but the constant poverty lines were reporting it a little low so after the several comparisons then we came to conclusions as compared to the reassessment and so on so we found that even though much of the literature from the official estimates were showing a direct decline or a trend which was of decline poverty estimates we see that when you use the utility consistent poverty lines when you look at the national poverty line in the year 20506 it was around 36% but in the next survey 209.10 it was a little high and in the last one in 2010 it was a little low so we saw that the trend was not as consistent downwards as had been reported in the national estimates and there were slight differences and also the other finding was that the northern region which was characterized by much of civil war thought the decades was reported as the poorest but when we use region-specific food consumption bano and prices actually find the waste being a little poorer than the northern because the waste and the central region feed on bananas which are a more expensive source of calories than the cereals maybe like sogam and simsim which are used as basic staples in the north so that was our conclusion that in Uganda the northern region is not the poorest when you consider the specific food prices and consumption bano and two the trend is not all uniformly moving downwards as considering poverty estimates for Uganda Thank you very much Welcome