Janine Cocker, the Head of Cooperation at the Canada High Commission in Nairobi recently paid a courtesy call to the Economic Policy Research Centre and its researchers to understand the Centre's research reach and how it feeds into both national and global development agendas. Cocker, who takes care…
Private school teachers in Uganda faced the toughest time when their salaries dried up due to school closures. The Economic Policy Research Centre, a thinktank in Kampala, reported in May that 85% of private schools were not paying full teacher salaries due to financial challenges brought on by Covid-19.…
There is a notable shift by some men going out of the way to share some of unpaid care work with their wives, a study has said. These men, however, find themselves being sanctioned by their peers and community, instilling fear in those that would want to follow…
While Uganda has seen a jump in sugarcane production, this has come as a result of more land being tilled than improvement in production methods. According to Dr. Swaibu Mbowa, a senior research fellow, at the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), “any gains from sugarcane production in the…
With the likelihood also that new lethal variants may emerge and therefore prolong pandemic pain with lockdown cycles, the government should prudently use the available resources to cushion the impact. This call was made by Dr. Isaac Shinyekwa, the EPRC head of the international trade and integration depart,…
Uganda’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)are “hanging in there” to see the next day with the majority of them far from being resilient, a rapid assessment study by the Economic Policy Research Centre has established. The assessment is part of a three-year study supported by the International…
Uganda is going through the toughest lockdown since being hit by the second wave of COVID-19 in May 2021. As part of the measures to stop the spread of the virus, President Yoweri Museveni placed the country back into lockdown with devastating impacts on businesses and many lives.…
The Economic Policy Research Centre has played a key role in the Uganda government monitoring and evaluation function. Presenting to the M&E stocktaking virtual workshop organized by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) on June 30, 2021, Dr Madina Guloba, the EPRC’s Senior Research Fellow, showed how…
A survey of school businesses has found a hopeless scramble to survive from coronavirus impact with an urgent call on government to help, write ALON MWESIGWA. The Makerere University-based Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) says in its May 2021 published study that schools especially “private [ones]need government urgent…
That Uganda is spending as much as 97% of its domestic revenue to service debt should concern us about the sustainability of public debt stock the country has raked up, according to Corti Paul Lakuma, a research fellow at the Economic Policy Research Centre. Presenting on Monday, June…