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In 2015 the Government of Uganda agreed to start rolling out a social pension programme, and increasing its own … help align the social protection agenda with Uganda's shifting political settlement dynamics. Government's apparent … commitment to social protection remains meagre; only a tiny proportion of Uganda's poor will benefit. The evidence presented here …
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We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of an agricultural extension program in Uganda to causally identify …
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The paper proposes an analysis of the recent distributional dynamics in Uganda. This analysis is performed by endorsing … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …
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Uganda has seen impressive economic growth and substantial poverty reductions over the past few decades. Today … poverty line that does not take into consideration the spatial variation of diets in Uganda could explain the divergence. In … this paper, we document how we estimate a new set of utility consistent poverty lines for Uganda using the Uganda National …
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This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the … period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that …
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A dynamic relationship between foreign aid and domestic fiscal variables in Uganda is analysed using a cointegrated …
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This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …
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of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban policy planning and poverty reduction in the country. Although … the history of urbanization in Uganda is relatively young compared to other East African countries, the rate of urban … development path of Uganda can be classified into five phases, referred to in this paper as transitions, and these are …
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the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …, which has seen major decentralization of power over the last quarter-century. Initial excitement about Uganda …
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dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …
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