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Institutional constraints to agriculture development in Uganda.
(EPRC, 2013-05-11)
Since the early 1990s, Uganda has implemented a number of reforms in the agricultural sector. However, in the past 10 years, the performance of the sector has lagged behind other sectors particularly services and industry. ...
Improving Girls' access to secondary schooling
(2013-06-11)
Despite the successful implementation of the Universal Secondary Education policy in Uganda
in 2007, overall secondary school enrolments have remained low, especially for girls. Among
other reasons, high cost of schooling ...
Youth Engagement in Agriculture in Uganda: Challenges and Prospects
(2013-06-09)
The Ugandan population is to a large extent comprised of a high and increasing cohort of young people, close to 78 percent of the population is below the age of thirty. Evidence reveals that youth engagement in agriculture ...
Macroeconomic and sectoral effects of the EAC Regional Integration on Uganda: A recursive computable general equilibrium analysis
(2013-05-11)
The paper empirically examines the implications of the implementation of the EAC regional integration on the Ugandan economy. Specifically, it analyses the likely effects of the asymmetric tariff reduction on the macro ...
HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in Uganda: A policy simulation.
(EPRC, 2013-06-23)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be a major health challenge in Uganda. The adult HIV/
AIDS prevalence rate had increased to 7.3 percent by 2011 from 6.4 percent in 2005/6.
Consequently, understanding the programmes ...
Economic and Social Upgrading in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry: The Case MTN Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Center, Makerere University, 2013-05)
Worldwide leaving an indelible mark in history by revolutionising lifestyles of individual, Systems, governments and entities. A number of factors have contributed to this phenomenon. Uganda has not been an exception and ...
Constraints to agricultural technology adoption in Uganda: Evidence from the 2005/06-2009/10 Uganda National Panel Survey.
(EPRC, 2013-05-22)
The study examines the determinants of improved agricultural technologies adoption in
Uganda, using a nationally representative panel data set of 1,600 farming households, collected
by the Ugandan Bureau of Statistics ...
Comparing the performance of Uganda’s intra-East African Community trade and other trading blocs: A gravity model analysis.
(EPRC, 2013)
This paper examines factors that determine Uganda’s trade flows and specifically compares the impact and performance of the different trade blocs on Uganda’s trade patterns and flows. The empirical question is whether ...