Browsing by Author "Kawooya, Dick"

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    Effective Innovation Policies for Development: Uganda
    (The Global Innovation, 2015) Ecuru, Julius; Kawooya, Dick
    As a landlocked country, Uganda’s economy is largely dependent on neighbouring countries for access to and participation in global economic activities. Until recently, following two decades of armed conflict that lasted from 1966 to 1986, Uganda relied on Kenya for the majority of its consumer goods. Since 1986 the country has focused its efforts on recovery, with socioeconomic activities and public policies geared towards development in key sectors such as roads, energy, agriculture, health, education, and security. Uganda’s recent progress in the Global Innovation Index (GII) is the result of nearly 30 years of consistent and relatively predictable socioeconomic policies aimed at transforming the country from a peasant society to a middle-income economy by the year 2040.
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    Enhancing Innovation in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Progress, Constraints, and Possibilities
    (The Global Innovation Index 2017, 2017) Lybbert, Travis; Ecuru, Julius; Kawooya, Dick; Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha
    Uganda’s performance as an innovation economy has been improving consistently, particularly in comparison with other low-income and SubSaharan African countries. Since 2015, the Global Innovation Index (GII) has ranked Uganda as an ‘innovation outperformer,’ a title given to countries that, over a number of years including the two most recent, have been identified as innovation achievers and pillar outperformers. This laudable progress stems from sustained economic growth coupled with a commitment to private-sector development and innovation policy reforms. Though encouraging, this nascent progress will translate into real benefits for the broader Ugandan population only if policy makers understand and address specific constraints in the innovation systems of the agri-food sector—the largest sector in the Ugandan economy