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Accelerating implementation of infrastructure projects
(2012)Over the recent past, the Government has devoted much attention to ensuring that there is guided development in the country. Accordingly, policy documents have been prepared such as the National Development Plan (NDP) and ... -
Accelerating the mining, value addition and use of key minerals in building an integrated economy
(2013-06)This paper provides a synopsis of the mineral’s subsector in Uganda and discusses its potential contribution to building an integrated economy. It presents proposals for accelerating the current projects in the National ... -
Action Plan for Development and Promotion of Exports in Selected Commodities
(2016-08)This Export Action plan is a strategic response by Government of Uganda to operationalize the Second National Development Plan (NDPII) whose overall goal is to attain a middle income status by 2020. The NDPII identifies ... -
Developing the Iron and steel Industry in Uganda
(2018-01)Uganda’s Iron and Steel industry paints a picture of contradictions. Firstly, the country has abundant high-quality iron ore deposits, yet its infant steel industry imports all of its raw materials. Secondly, there is high ... -
Effect of Procurement Procedures and Project Implementation on Resource Absorption
(2014-02-20)The number and scale of Government projects in the roads sub – sector in the past 3 years is unprecedented. Government spends over UGX 1.5 trillion a year on goods, land, works and services to ensure roads are maintained ... -
Enhancing competitiveness in Uganda's tourism sector for growth and employment
(2013-10)Tourism in Uganda, a top African destination in the 1960s, has reawakened over the past decade. Uganda Vision 2040 includes tourism as among the growth sectors with great development opportunities.Tourism was designated ... -
Financing Fiscal Deficits in Uganda
(2014-03-27)Uganda is in a transitional period in terms of both financing needs and opportunities. Since Fiscal Year 2009/10 net financing requirements have consistently exceeded available net concessional lending – and this trend ... -
Focus on Wealth Creating Sectors
(2005-06)This document presents draft reports of studies so far carried out by the NPA on different productive sub-sectors of the economy. The draft study reports to cover twelve sub-sectors, namely, Fish; Tobacco; Beans; Maize; ... -
Gender, Economic Productivity and Development in Uganda: Recent Evidence and Policy Conclusions1
(2014-05-09)Gender equality is enshrined in Uganda’s constitution. Yet, gender-related norms, perceptions and practices continue to ensure that women’s and men’s opportunities remain unequal. This is unfair: life’s chances should ... -
Integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into the National Development Planning Framework and Systems in Uganda
(2007-04)Uganda has embraced ICT as a strategy for realization of her poverty reduction goals and attaining the broader development goals such as the MDGs. The poverty eradication Action plan 2004/2005 - 2007/08, the country's ... -
Investment partnerships for embedding foreign domestic investments in Uganda
(2014-02)Many developing economies have successfully promoted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in order to facilitate economic growth and reduce poverty. However, attracting FDI without appropriate policy interventions for embedding ... -
Korean Model of Latecomer Development: Capability-Building and Smart Specialization
(2016-07)Korea has been one of the most successful latecomer economies to achieve rapid economic growth and join the ranks of high income economies. While Korea has often been proposed as a role model for other developing countries, ... -
Land Reform and Investments in Agriculture for Socio-Economic Transformation of Uganda
(2014-07-24)Uganda, with a per capita Gross National Income (GNI) of US$ 510 (Atlas method, current prices) in 2013 and with 22 percent of her population living below US$1.25 per day as of 2013, has prepared a development vision, the ... -
NPA policy Brief Planning for Development
(2017)The Second National Development Plan (NDPII 2015/162019/20) provides a road map for Uganda to attain a lower middle-income status by 2020. The Plan identifies development strategies to achieve this lower middle-income ... -
A Policy paper on access, cost, quality and relevance, the case fro Pre-primary and Primary Education in Uganda
(2015-07)From 1986, the education sector has witnessed comprehensive policy reforms that have put it decisively on the development path. Key among the reforms was the adoption of the most fundamental and far reaching programme - ... -
A Policy paper on curbing corruption to improve service delivery
(2013-06)One of the key principles of modern societies is the rule of law and the subjection of individual selfish interests to the interests of the common good. More recently the NRM Government has committed itself to fight ... -
A Policy paper on the process of attaining middle income status
(2016)Uganda aspires to become an upper middle income country by 2040 as spelt out in the Uganda Vision 2040. However, while articulated in NDPII, the direction that should move the country to middle income is not yet well ... -
Scaling up value addition in agricultural products
(2013-04)Uganda can gain substantially from her agricultural products if the country can adopt and implement value addition techniques and strategies. Indeed, Uganda’s path to development and socioeconomic transformation partly ... -
Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda The role of Inter-industry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s
(World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington DC 20433 USA, 2016-06)Uganda's GDP growth of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity across industries producing tradable goods and services. This came about primarily as a result of investment in equipment and other ...