Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the government grapples with defining the cluster of vulnerable Ugandans who deserve COVID-19 relief in the ongoing second lockdown, economists say it is vital that the government creates a database that can be used for such interventions in future. Such a database would be …
Read More »Competition, political interests killing EAC integration
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The faltering of the East African member states is an indicator that leaders have to launch a new and comprehensive consultation for solutions that will make it work. The observation was made by professional bodies, economic analysts and government officials in the wake of trade …
Read More »Govts debt management strategy draws mixed reactions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Finance has unveiled a new Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS), aimed at ensuring value for money from the loans that are being borrowed for the next financial year. The plan specifies how the government plans to structure its debt portfolio in the …
Read More »COVID-19 causes big drop in business confidence in Uganda – Survey
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business confidence in the country has fallen sharply for the first time since January 2017 as companies come to terms with Coronavirus (COVID -19) wave, a survey has shown. The Purchase Managers Index (PMI) for March 2020, a survey published by Stanbic bank and mainly …
Read More »Businesses to get relief on loans – Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a thin relief to businesses during the shutdown due to coronavirus, President Yoweri Museveni announced Monday evening that his government would talk to banks to ensure that they don’t seize properties of defaulters during the 14-day period. Museveni who announced the ban of private …
Read More »33 YEARS LATER: Mixed economy was right strategy
`We can’t build a mixed economy when the private sector side is parasitic on the public sector’ NRM programme point No. 10. Following an economic strategy of mixed economy When the NRM government took power in 1986, it introduced a 10-point programme. Point No.10 on the programme was to pursue …
Read More »Will Uganda’s bank for cooperatives be a reality?
Cooperative banks worldwide were financed by cooperatives societies Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For some time now, Uganda’s cooperatives societies have expressed the need to re-establish the Cooperative Bank as their main source of capital for production, processing, diversification and value addition. Whereas they seem to have made a …
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