Gayathry Venugopal shares the summary of BCI findings for Eastern Uganda in Tororo on November 23, 2018. Photo by Mouris Opolot Micro economic factors, electricity hiccups, low demand, substandard products and tax policy have been listed as key business constraints in Northern Uganda for the period spanning between…
Many developing countries in Africa have a low tax to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio with that of East Africa ranging from 13 to 18 percent. In the recent years, EA governments have turned their domestic revenue collection efforts on the mobile money transactions. Mobile money is an…
Invited district officials, business owners engage in discussion during the Business Climate Index (BCI) dissemination for Western Uganda held on May 3, 2018 in Mbarara. Photo by Mouris Opolot Local business representatives from Western and Central Uganda decried what they called unfair competition and infiltration of fake products…
The Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) is finalizing a report on fostering a sustainable agro-industrialization agenda in Uganda. This was revealed during a validation workshop held on February 26, 2018 at EPRC conference hall. Agro industrialization is aimed at transforming Uganda into a modern and industrial country through…
EPRC Research Fellow, Brian Sserunjogi, presents the BCI findings to participants during a dissemination workshop held in Mbale. Photo by Mouris Opolot The second Business Climate Index (BCI) research dissemination held in Northern region (Lira on the 21st Nov. 2017) and Eastern region (Mbale on the 24th Nov. 2017) for…
Paul Corti Lakuma, a Research Analyst with EPRC showcases graphs showing aggregate discipline, technical efficiency and allocative efficiency of Uganda's budgets in the past financial years in line to NDPs. Photo by Mouris Opolot Researchers from the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) have said that a de-link between…
Hassan Mbaziira, the Manager Monitoring and Evaluation Unit - UWEP, Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development reacts to issues during a meeting at EPRC Stakeholders from research, academia and the private sector have urged government and other concerned parties to critically monitor Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) to overcome…
A snapshot of Uganda business climate findings showing extent of mobile money use by small business enterprises Joseph Mawejje and Paul Corti Lakuma, Research Analysts from the Economic Policy Research Centre held two business climate dissemination workshops in Northern and Eastern Uganda. The workshops were held on 13th and 15th…
Through the National Development Plan (NDP II), Uganda has prioritized the attainment of middle income status by 2020. This article examines what the country needs to attain the NDP II target. We will focus on income measures in this article for ease of interpreting where we stand and…
Today, Uganda has received rare news of the disbandment of the entire National Roads Authority. The Authority has in the recent past been in the lime light for aggravated corruption and abuse of office. Considering, the Economic Policy Research Centre's focus on cost effective public finance management, we…