Since the start of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic spread all over the world, countries including Uganda have adopted various measures to contain the spread of the virus and avert a humanitarian catastrophe. These include restricted international travel, closure of schools, imposing nationwide lockdowns, suspension of public, social…
Globally, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted education systems forcing learners and some schools to shift to virtual learning to curb the spread of the pandemic. While the pandemic has caused a drastic shift to digital learning spaces for mostly urban and children from well-to-do…
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.…
COVID-19 and its containment measures in Uganda, especially lockdowns, have resulted into new inequalities and exacerbated the existing gaps between the rich and the poor, including the vulnerable[1]. However, a more credible and supportive fiscal policy could reduce the intensity and magnitude of the expected increase in socio-economic…
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc and reverse the gains made in creating resilient and sustainable social-economic systems supporting young people’s lives, livelihoods and businesses. For instance, the International Labour Organisation shows that one in six young people aged 18-29 stopped working (about 17.4 percent) because…
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.…
On Thursday, June 10, 2021, the Minister of State for Planning Amos Lugoloobi presented a Shillings 44.7trillion 2021/22 budget to the nation on behalf of the president of Uganda. EPRC research fellow Paul Lakuma opined how it will affect small and medium enterprises at the virtual post-budget discussion…