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By Jeffrey D. Sachs The Millennium Village Project will be professionally evaluated next year –based on proper data In his review of Nina Munk’s error-filled and out-of-date book, Bill Gates oddly abandons the rigorous approach to measurement and evaluation that defines his foundation’s invaluable work. He simply accepts Munk’s assertion …

By Bill Gates When fighting poverty and disease, you will never achieve anything if you’re afraid to fail Bono calls economist Jeffrey Sachs “the squeaky wheel that roars.” To me, Sachs is the Bono of economics – a guy with impressive intelligence, passion, and powers of persuasion who is devoting …

By Norbert Mao Looking back at Rwanda 20 years later Sometime in 1994 a few weeks after the RPA took power in Rwanda I probably became one of the few Ugandans who dared to visit Kigali. I was in the company of Uganda Confidential Editor, Teddy Sseezi Cheeye. Dead bodies …

By Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza Economic expediency cannot take precedence over the enforcement of principles in the Constitution The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has been under criticism in various news articles which I believe are partly due to a failure to understand the mandate of the institution.  This calls for efforts …

By Linda Besigiroha Punishing girls for traditions we celebrate one moment and then overlook when we are wearing the judgmental robes Ugandans like to see things in black and white. That’s not a fair assumption though – so I will correct myself and say many people like to see things …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why Uganda should move to privatise NSSF and other remaining publically owned or supervised enterprises Last week, Umeme issued a Secondary Public Offering (SPO) on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) to institutional investors (individual investors have their turn this week). The response by the market has …

By Morris DC Komakech Time to increase demand for African knowledge in science and practice in the mainstream research The second international conference for the Advancement of Science in Africa (SASA) ended at Hotel Africana last week on Friday, May 9. This SASA conference started in Polokwane in South Africa …

By Henry Zakumumpa Why increasing tobacco taxes can reduce the increasing cases of cancer and heart disease in Uganda Last year four cabinet ministers were reported in the press to be on treatment for diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Sadly, two of these cabinet ministers eventually died from …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Museveni has centralised and personalised while at the same time decentralised and institutionalised it with the help of his opponents Last week, a very successful Ugandan businessman invited me visit a big project he is doing in collaboration with the government on one of its …

By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers Forward-thinking entrepreneurs are already reaping the benefits of this fast-moving revolution The world is on the threshold of the biggest business opportunity in a century, rivaling both the first Industrial Revolution, which transformed labour productivity, and the second, which mobilised unprecedented amounts of capital …