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Item Business Unusual? The Conceptualization and Implementation Readiness of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Uganda.(CEHURD, 2018) Kiiza, Julius; Nassimbwa, Jacqueline; Mulumba, MosesThis report presents findings from a scoping assessment of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH)as a development funding model and Uganda’s readiness to implement the project. The GFF model uses a hybrid funding approach that mobilizes, coordinates and utilizes resources from the World Bank (concessional lending), partner donor countries and private funders – pooled in the GFF Trust Fund. World Bank-hosted GFF secretariat uses trust fund resources to catalyze financing from multiple sources and to “crowd-in” additional domestic resources.Item The evolution of industry in Uganda(WIDER, 2014) Obwona, Marios; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Kiiza, Julius; Hisali, EriaThe paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period in the 1940s to date. It is argued that the state played a central role in industrialization during the pre-colonial and immediate post-colonial period. The paper further looks at industrialisation during the liberal phase. The current structure, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist policy to industrialization has not been adequate to propel industrial development in Uganda. State withdrawal from direct involvement in industrial development was prematurely done and should be revisitedItem Gender and Taxation: Analysis of Personal Income Tax (PIT)(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2009) Bategeka, Lawrence; Guloba, Madina; Kiiza, JuliusThis paper examines the gender dimensions of personal income tax (PIT) in Uganda with an eye on the possible gender biases that may be embedded in the tax system. It further addresses the issue of Uganda’s achievement of substantive gender equality rather than formal equality as regards the impact of taxes from a gender perspective. This is in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The paper critically examines Uganda’s tax laws that seem to have formal equality, treating all people as if they are the same and synonymous with equality of opportunity. Yet, substantive equality recognizes that people are not the same. Equal treatment may therefore not be equitable. Accordingly, the paper examines the extent to which Uganda’s tax laws and practices are, through affirmative action, geared to the achievement of substantive equality or the attainment of equal outcomes. We find that PIT paid by different household earning types increases gender inequality. We also find that the income tax system only worsens gender gaps and hardly is a useful tool that could be used to close the gender gaps. This is mainly because the tax rates are applied equally to both genders without due consideration of gender inequality and household composition that is rooted in the country’s social norms and history. Furthermore, we find that more women increasingly fall under taxable brackets in real terms because of the income tax brackets that are not indexed to inflation. The paper proposes how PIT could be reformed with a view to using taxation as a tool for the realization of substantive gender equality.Item Institutional Constraints to Agriculture Development in Uganda(Economic Policy Research Centre - EPRC, 2013) Bategeka, Lawrence; Kiiza, Julius; Kasirye, IbrahimSince the early 1990s, Uganda has implemented a number of reforms in the agricultural sector. However, in the past 10 years, the performance of the sector has lagged behind other sectors particularly services and industry. There are concerns among researchers and policy analysts that institutional constraints in agriculture play a central role in the lacklustre agricultural performance registered during the 2000s. This study examines the institutional constraints affecting agricultural production in Uganda. We recommend reforming the land tenure system as well as the architecture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries as means of dealing with the major constraints.Item Institutions and economic performance in Africa: A comparative analysis of Mauritius, Botswana and Uganda(The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER),, 2006) Kiiza, JuliusThis paper examines the relationship between institution building and economic performance in Mauritius, Botswana and Uganda. The rationale for comparing these cases is simple. While the three have been super-economic stars in their own right, they have achieved substantially different outcomes. Mauritius has achieved Asia-type rapid growth, backed by the structural transformation of the economy from colonial commodity production (sugar) to postcolonial higher value-added industrial and information outcomes. Botswana has delivered rapid and sustained growth with no structural economic transformation. Uganda has attained rapid growth for a shorter postcolonial period (since 1992) and with no structural transformation. This paper contends that these cross-national differences largely arise from the presence of developmental nationalism plus Weberian bureaucracies in Mauritius and Botswana, and their absence in Uganda.Item Market-Oriented Public Management in Uganda: Benchmarking International Best Practise?(A Journal of African Studies, 2000) Kiiza, JuliusThis paper examines the phenomenon of"new" pulblic management in Uganda in the broader context of the history of administrative reform, the quality management revolution, and the rise of economic rationalism over conventional public administration. The durability of Uganda's donor-driven reforms is critically analysed. Using a Best-Practices Benchmarking {BPS) model, this paper argues that Uganda's edition of market-oriented public management is inconsistent with the logic of consciously benchmarking international best-practices in public service delivery. The definition of the reforms by the IMF/World Bank fraternity, as a conditionality for further "development assistance" is found to institutionalise a top-down approach which is antithetical to durable change management If Uganda is to pursue durable reforms, a fundamentally re-engineered bottom-up approach is not optional. It is a must. The country must deploy a genuine best-practices benchmarking strategy underpinned by the continuous search for better quality service delivery.Item Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in an Age of Globalization(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Kiiza, JuliusThe last few decades have witnessed a spirited debate over globalization and the real or perceived impact of global economic integration on the performance of national economies (Weiss, 1998; 1999; Rodrik, 2001; Chang, 2007). The debate appeared, for a time, to be polarized between the theorists of global market integration (eg Ohmae, 1995; Dollar, 2001) and those that are critical of the globalization orthodoxy (Weiss, 1998; Rodrik, 1999; Chang, 2002; Amsden, 2005). The former group celebrated the convergence of different species of capitalism on the Anglo-American norm of “free trade”; the latter underscored cross-national variations in capitalist development. One group announced the rise of the “borderless world” signifying the sovereignty of private capital over sovereign states; the other documented the enduring significance of nation-states in the “global” political economy. One team celebrated the “death” of industrial policy; the other appreciated the changing, but not ending, significance of industrial policy (Rodrik, 2004; Chang, 2007).Item Money Matters: Financing Illiberal Democracy in Uganda(Michelsen Institute, 2011) Kiiza, JuliusThis paper discusses the financing of Uganda’s illiberal democracy with reference to the 2011 multiparty elections. To describe Uganda as an ‘illiberal democracy’ is to suggest that it is a hybrid polity gravitating between semi-democracy and semi-authoritarianism ‘along the spectrum of hybridity’ (Trip, 2010: 3). Hybridity has persisted despite the fairly regular presidential and parliamentary elections since 1996. The duality of democratic and despotic characteristics questions the viability of elections as avenues for deepening constitutional liberalism. As Fareed Zakaria (1997; 2003) notes, the increase in elections in certain polities (in Latin America, Asia and Africa) has not translated into deepening constitutional liberalism. The problem in hybrid polities is that ‘democracy is flourishing, constitutional liberalism is not’ (Zakaria, 1997). This suggests that elections (which are central to the theory and practice of democracy), have not necessarily enhanced the rule of law, the separation of powers, and respect for basic liberties of speech, assembly, and property.Item Oil Discovery in Uganda: Managing Expectations(Economic Policy Research Center, 2009) Bategeka, Lawrence; Kiiza, Julius; Ssewanyana, SarahThis paper discusses the management of expectations associated with the recent discovery of commercialisable oil (and gas) in Uganda. No commercial oil was flowing at the time of research and no oil revenues are expected until after 2013. The ‘early production agreement’ reached between Uganda and the oil companies (particularly Tullow Oil and Gas company) prioritizes the production of 50–100 megawatts of electricity that will be added on to the national grid by the late-2009.1 However, the additional electricity will remain below the country’s requirements. Yet, Ugandans – at the national, local government and community levels – appear to be nursing high expectations (but also apprehension) related to oil discovery. For some stakeholders, Uganda is on the verge of becoming an OPEC powerhouse. For others, oil discovery is likely to be a curse rather than a blessing. The key challenge for this paper is to understand the extent to which Uganda’s powers-that-be are effectively managing the positive expectations and the anxieties over what might go wrong.Item The Politics of Blended Health Sector Financing in Uganda: Unpacking the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility(Tanzania Journal of Development Studies, 2019) Kiiza, Julius; Nassimbwa, Jacqueline; Mulumba, MosesThis paper examines the politics of blended financing with reference to the World Bank-inspired Global Financing Facility for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) in Uganda. Critical literature review was conducted, followed by interviews with government technocrats, multilateral agencies (World Bank, WHO and UNICEF), civil society organizations and selected district health officers. Our main finding is twofold. Procedurally, blended finance takes the trodden path of developmental paternalism characterized by asymmetrical power relations between donors (who determine fundable priorities) and beneficiaries (whose inclusion hardly counts). Substantively, however, Uganda’s Investment Case uses concessional IDA credit worth US$110m, multidonor trust funds worth $30m and a SIDA grant of US$25m. This raises the total to $165m, with a grant component of 33.33%, far above the 25% recommended by the OECD. The emerging conclusion is simple: blended finance is imperfect, but is not ‘dead aid’ a la Dambisa Moyo (2010).Item Righting Resource-Curse Wrongs in Uganda: The Case of Oil Discovery and the Management of Popular Expectations(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2011) Kiiza, Julius; Bategeka, Lawrence; Ssewanyana, SarahThis paper discusses the management of expectations associated with the recent discovery of commercializable oil in Uganda. Our motivation is simultaneously theoretical and pragmatic. Theoretically, resource abundance oftentimes begets a natural resource-curse, that is, the tendency for resource-rich countries to attain poorer developmental outcomes than resourcepoor countries (Auty, 1993; Collier et al, 2004). Practically, oil development in Uganda appears set to create winners and losers. Four categories of winners are spelt out in Uganda’s Oil and Gas Policy – the central government; the oil companies; the district local governments of the oilrich areas; and the land owners. The oil-rich lands have not been nationalized to make all Ugandans winners. Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom (hereafter: ‘Bunyoro Kingdom’) also complains that it has been left out. Yet, it has a historical and cultural claim over the oil-rich lands. Sections of the local community, whose environment could be contaminated by oil-spills, are also concerned that no context-specific environmental safeguards have been developed.Item The Unintended Industrial Policy Benefits of Covid-19 in Africa(Routledge, 2021) Kiiza, JuliusThis chapter examines a seemingly heretical subject matter, that is, the unintended benefcial impact of the otherwise disruptive novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes code-named COVID-19 (e.g. Ssali 2020). First detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, COVID-19 was declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January 2020 and reclassifed as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO 2020). That COVID-19 knows no social, political, gender, or racial boundaries is no longer debatable (WHO 2020). What has escaped scholarly scrutiny is the positive albeit the unintended benefcial impacts of COVID-19 (Baldwin and Eiichi 2020). Are there verifable industrial policy dividends of COVID-19? This question is important for two distinctive reasons – one theoretical and the other pragmatic. Theoretically, free-market fundamentalism – which has dominated national and global political economies for 40 years – associates globalisation with the sovereignty of private capital over sovereign states (Bhagwati 2004). Globalisation arguably signifes the supremacy of economic liberalism over economic nationalism. It signifes the death of country- specifc industrial policies that are theoretically faulted for undermining the market’s allocative efciency and promoting patronage politics (Kelsall et al. 2010).