Uganda and Poverty
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- Debt relief financed activities in the social sectors have contributed to reducing poverty in Uganda
- A. Mwaba / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- Paper presents a country case study of Uganda’s external debt burden, its impact on the country’s economy and the outcomes of the recent debt relief measures implemented by the international community. Findings: Using...
- Social sector reform: the efficacy of poverty reduction initiatives in Uganda
- J. Nannyonjo / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- Paper identifies the constraints of Uganda's implementation of social reforms via the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), and offers a guide for the future course of reforms. To do this, the paper provides an assessment of perform...
- Uganda's experience with HIPC Initiative and poverty reduction
- P. B. Mijumbi / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- Paper examines Uganda's experience with external debt and debt-relief measures. Emphasis is placed on the country's experience with the HIPC I (the original HIPC) and HIPC II (the Enhanced HIPC) initiatives, and their relevance to pov...
- Uganda, debt and the HIPC initiative
- E. S. K. Muwanga-Zake; S. Ndhaye / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- Paper examines the evolution of Uganda's debt, including the 1991 Debt Strategy, the 1995 Enhanced Debt Strategy, debt reduction operations, The Paris Club, debt buy back and restructuring of unsecured commercial debt, debt conversion...
- Halting the proliferation of small arms in Uganda
- Oxfam, 2001
- Reporting on a field study conducted in several areas and instutions in Kitgum and Kotido (Uganda), this paper presents a literature review, results of informant interviews, and assesses the impact of small arms on education. C...
- Donors should be more discriminating when deciding which African countries will benefit from aid
- World Bank, 2001
- This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies). More specifically the article investigates the following questions: are there common char...
- Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance
- Ed Campos; Sanjay Pradhan / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- How institutional arrangements affect incentives governing the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources and improve transparency and accountability binding key players to particular fiscal outcomes and making it costly for the...
- Outline of research programme
- Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; O. Therkildsen; L. Rakner; J. Semboja / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
- Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and democratic consol...
- What can be learnt from Uganda's early attempts to produce a PRSP
- J. Mackinnon; R. Reinikka / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Paper draws lessons from the drafting of Uganda's PEAP, an early precursor to PRSPs. First, the PEAP plan made extensive use of existing data and research about Uganda to refocus a range of public policies and interventions relevant t...
- Increasing women's participation in poverty reduction and household income
- J. Mackinnon; R. Reinikka / World Bank, 2001
- Using household data specifically collected for the purpose of evaluation, this paper evaluates the impact on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in the loc...
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