‘Kenyans poorer than Ugandans’

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Kenya has poorer people than Uganda, despite having a far larger economy, a new report by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund shows.
According to the Global Monitoring Report 2013, Uganda’s poverty head count stands at 38.01 per cent against Kenya’s 43.37 per cent, using the poverty cut-off point of $1.25 per person.
The poverty level scoring is based on the number of people living below Sh105 ($1.25) a day. Previous studies have used $1 daily but that has since been replaced with the higher amount. According to the report, the level of poverty in Tanzania stands at 67.87 per cent, based on the latest available data.
In Rwanda, poverty stands at 63.17 per cent while in Burundi it is at 81.32 per cent, showing the extent to which war has continued to adversely impact livelihoods in the agriculture-rich country.
Burundi and neighbouring Tanzania therefore have the largest proportion of poor people among the members of the East African Community.