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…
Ugandan women spend five and a half hours per day doing unpaid care work, a new survey has said. Men only spend 3.5 hours on unpaid care work. On the other hand, men spend at least 7.4 hours compared to 5.3hrs for women in paid employment. The survey…
An assessment of the sugarcane sub-sector in Uganda found that at least 11, 364 farmers had dumped cane growing last year as prices dropped to lowest level in recent memory. Cane prices recovered in second half of 2022. Economic Policy Research Centre published the results of the nationwide…
The twelfth Poverty Reduction and Equity Network (PEGNet) 2022 conference hosted in Kampala strongly called for multidimensional solutions to conflict in Africa, taking into account of the equitable service provision, institutional and governance reform targeting the most underserved people. Themed, addressing conflict and fragility in developing countries, discussions…
That women and girls in Uganda are over-burdened with unpaid care work is not shocking news anymore. That the norms, behaviour, and societal sanctions that continue to perpetuate the status quo are still held high in our communities’ everyday life begs a question: is anyone paying attention? A…
Economic Policy Research Centre has completed regional dissemination of survey results on the impact of Covid-19 on the Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in Uganda. The nationwide survey captured the state of MSMEs during and after different spells of Covid-19 instigated shutdowns. During regional disseminations, EPRC interacted…
Uganda Development Bank (UDB) and Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) have signed a strategic partnership pact to work together on different research projects to inform policy and drive evidence-based interventions for deeper impact. Ms. Patricia Ojangole, the UDB managing director, said “formalizing the relationship [between two institutions] will…
Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world, the haze around the true cost on the economy, businesses, jobs and lives is becoming clearer by day. The nationwide study, which forms part of the panel studies that are following enterprises during and after Covid-19, was carried out…
On May 21, 2022, Economic Policy Research Centre staff led by Director of Research Dr Ibrahim Kasirye were helped to a factory tour of Kakira Sugar courtesy of Mr. Nitini Madhvani, the Director and Chairman of Madhvani Group. EPRC team was hosted together with Bank of Uganda Deputy…
The dramatic rise in the prices of key commodities has affected poorer Ugandans more compared to the well-off counterparts, an analysis of the impact shows. The Economic Policy Research Centre Director of Research Dr. Ibrahim Kasirye told a workshop in Kampala in May that “the foods whose prices…