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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Uganda's Public Sector Borrowing Requirements, Finance Options and the implication for Economic Performance
(2014-03)Government’s optimal mix of financing options depends crucially on the level of borrowing requirements and the use of public resources. Uganda’s development strategy is increasingly focused on ...