The death of 14 people in August after they consumed a substandard liquor in Gulu is one indicator of the heavy cost we are paying for the poor consumer protection against harmful products. While the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), the body mandated to certify that products…
Local Government (LG) administration units in Uganda have continued to have inadequate funding to provide basic public service goods. Yet an indicator of a bigger problem than funding, is that many of these units return money to the consolidated fund despite lacking basic education and health services, among…
Access to long-term internship and apprenticeship opportunities for young people in Uganda may be key to solving the unemployment problem, experts have said. Dr. Madina Guloba, a research fellow at Economic Policy Research Centre, said there was “need to open and increase apprenticeships within the employment institutions and…
An abridged report written by the Makerere University-based think tank, the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), lays bare the fullest and most detailed insight to date into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related lockdowns on the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.…
Nine months after the Russian-Ukraine war broke out, countries afar continue to feel the impact. It is indeed argued that the war has affected global trade as the dual are main suppliers of commodities such as wheat, sunflower, fertilizer, fuel and metals, among others[i]. Sanctions have seen consumers…