Total factor productivity is the efficiency and utilisation of inputs in production, which means that Uganda has been putting in more than it has got out
Speaking at the launch, the country manager for the World Bank Group in Uganda, Christina Malmberg Calvo said that the government needs to consider the suggested reforms and fix agriculture “before the black gold gets out of the ground.”
Agriculture is Uganda’s ‘green gold’ that can transform the economy and the lives of farmers. What specific public-sector policies and actions are required to unleash the entrepreneurial energy of Uganda’s largest private sector actors—its farmers?
The completion date of the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway “has been revised 16 November”, according to works and transport minister, Monica Azuba-Ntege, to allow the contractor finish an incomplete section
As the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, one of the core pillars observed is giving to charity or alms-giving. During this time, many families are constrained without food to break their daily fast as required
Uganda’s NRM government, in power since 1986, has pledged to address the development challenges the country still faces as it guides the economy into lower middle-income status
The Uganda National Oil Company chief executive, Josephine Wapakhabulo, has allayed fears that the oil company is trying to ‘bite more than it can chew’ with the dozen capital-intensive upstream and midstream projects on its to-do list
Bank of Uganda has kept it’s policy rate unchanged, pointing to a continued improvement in economic activity and a projected increase in inflation in the next 12 months
At least $81.147m (Shs300b) has been disallowed as “costs not recoverable” by oil companies from the Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) signed with government between 2001 and 2011
This week, finance minister Matia Kasaija will present a Shs30.9 trillion ($8 billion) budget. Sarah Logan examines the economic context of Uganda’s annual budget and the associated challenges