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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Governance in Uganda

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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Africa’s success: evaluating accomplishments

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenarios in each country, and identifies the emerging challenges.
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    Corruption reduces business growth in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Corruption can clearly have a negative impact on economic growth at the country level. But what impact do corruption and bribery have on the growth of individual businesses? And is corruption more harmful to business growth than taxation?
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    Staying put: time to join refugee self-sufficiency with local integration?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Some three million refugees from war-torn countries in Central and East Africa are in a protracted refugee situation – defined as living in exile for more than five years. Donors focus on delivering emergency assistance in response to high profile refugee flows, but are losing interest in helping forced migrants from states where there is no prospect of peace.
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    Educating refugees in countries of first asylum: the case of Uganda

    Migration Policy Institute, 2004
    This article discusses the way an innovative new method of delivering education is seeking to provide for the future security of refugee families in Uganda. It suggests that the current model of international assistance in refugee camps and settlements tends to focus on meeting refugees’ immediate and short-term needs, neglecting longer-term goals and needs for stability and future security.