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Uganda’s GDP growth robust at start of 2018
Activity in Uganda's real economy in the first three months of 2018 improved at a healthy rate from the same period a year earlier. But the economy lost a little pace as the annual quarterly GDP growth rate recorded its second straight drop
July 3, 2018
Digital Economy
Economy
Politics & Policy
Mobile money dominates formal sector financial inclusion, limitations and all
Financial inclusion is low in Uganda because banks find it costly and unprofitable to extend services to rural areas. But even in urban areas, their services are expensive. Mobile money is the only financial service that has bucked those trends
July 2, 2018
Economy
Inflation inches up in June
The annual inflation rate inched up in June due to an increase in energy, fuel, and utilities prices and the prices of food crops and related items, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics said on Friday
June 29, 2018
Economy
Coffee exports recover in May
An increase in robusta bean harvests pushed up Uganda's coffee exports in May compared to the previous month when the quantity of bags exported fell to its lowest since October 2016
June 22, 2018
Economy
Markets data
The shilling to hit Shs4000 against US dollar – Barclays Africa
The Uganda shilling will this July hit Shs4000 mark against the dollar, economists from Barclays Africa Group predict
June 22, 2018
Economy
Opinion
Women’s unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history
It is “illogical” to exclude the economic value of preparing and cooking food and collecting firewood from GDP calculations. Such kinds of labour have historically been excluded because they were commonly viewed as women’s work
June 21, 2018
Economy
Investment in agriculture is not matching its output performance – World Bank report
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
June 20, 2018
Economy
Fix agriculture before oil gets out of the ground – World Bank
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.”
June 20, 2018
Economy
Agriculture is the ‘green gold’ that could transform the economy and the lives of Ugandan farmers
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?
June 19, 2018
Economy
Politics & Policy
Budget 2018: Government pledges to address development challenges
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
June 14, 2018
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