EPRC Highlights
How can Uganda enhance secondary education enrolment for the girl child?
Will government’s strategy of prioritising support to large scale farmers prevent hunger in Uganda?
Unpaid Care Work: ‘My husband has started trusting me with money’
Vulnerability of product standards enforcement in Uganda
Poor absorption capacity derail service delivery at local government level
ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE
The Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) is Uganda’s leading think tank in economics and development policy oriented research and policy analysis.
The Economic Policy Research Centre was established in 1993 as an autonomous not-for-profit organization limited by guarantee to fill fundamental voids in economics research, policy analysis, and capacity building for effective in-country contributions to Uganda’s policy processes.
Research Agenda
Economy, Employment and Public Finance Management
Research in this area informs policy actors on how to stimulate economic growth and create employment through prudent public finance management….
Macroeconomic Analysis, Social Service Delivery and Protection
This focuses on means of enhancing productivity, mobility of factors of production & their impacts on household welfare, social protection for vulnerable groups & institutional reforms for social economic transformation.
Private Sector Development and Competitiveness
Research in this area informs how the private sector should reposition itself as the engine of economic growth, adapt to the EAC competitive regional business environment and other regional blocs.
Natural Resources Management
This area focuses on how Uganda can leverage its wealth in natural resources for sustainable growth and development.
Policy Inconsistency and Implementation Gaps
In this area, our research explores the evolution of policies and identifies gaps and inconsistencies within the existing policies so as to aid their effective implementation.
Trade and Regional Integration
Under this thematic area, our research examines the likely implications of the changing global and regional geopolitical environment on Uganda’s trade.
Latest Publications
The most critical priority investments required by the Ugandan agricultural sector November 12, 2022 716.36 KB
Did the Ugandan agricultural sector achieve structural transformation during 1987-2020? November 12, 2022 498.77 KB
Labour Externalisation in Uganda: Implications for the Agro-Industrialisation Agenda October 25, 2022 4.17 MB
Ugandan Economy Today Quarter 3 January-March 2022 October 15, 2022 931.09 KB
