This paper identifies which households have - and those which have not - benefited from trader under Uganda's more liberal economic regime and suggests what can be done to spread the benefits more widely.
Date: 2013-02-01
Author: Oliver Morrissey, Nichodemus Rudaheranwa, Faustin Kamuzora
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In Uganda, NCDs account for one third of adult deaths The burden of NCDs is on a rising trend –for example new annual cancer cases are rapidly rising with current cases as high as 32,000;hypertension increased by 42% between 2012 and 2016 and similarly, diabetes cases increased by 7% over the same period |
This yearbook discusses the interventions and advances made in policy, strategy, innovations, research; value chain and agricultural investments financing. It further highlights the challenges that policymakers, implementers and value chain actors must address if Uganda’s is to extend its agricultural finance frontier. |
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