Last month, Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child under the theme “Our time is now-our rights, our future”. One thing is clear – there is need to for address constraints that affect girls’ transition to Uganda’s secondary school system.…
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.…
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 could experience further fiscal deficits and public debt increases that will undermine her fiscal potential. The fiscal deficit, a situation where a country spends more than it earns, increased from UGX 4.1 trillion in 2015/16 to UGX 13.4 trillion in 2020/21, while the public debt increased from…
The Covid-19 pandemic and its resultant containment measures for nearly two years, has had a far- reaching impact on employment, business resilience and the economic environment, according to the findings of a new report. The study whose aim was to track how Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)…
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…
Extreme poverty in most African countries is projected to increase far much higher – and majorly among the poorest people – as economies emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. According to Dr. Ibrahim Kasirye, the director of research at the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), “partly because of the…
Since November 2021, EPRC has conducted several pieces of research analysing e rising cost of essential commodities. The analysis has focused on fuel and other essential commodities. As shown in Figure 1, several essential commodities have registered unusual surges in prices. For example, over the 3months period (December…
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019 and the subsequent search for an appropriate antidote, there have been mixed reactions in vaccine uptake globally. The COVID-19 vaccines manufactured have ranged from Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, and Sinovac. Despite these efforts, Uganda, like many East…
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…