In 2001, the Chinese government began a strong, sustained push for Chinese companies to increase their outgoing investment. The expansion of China’s “Going Out” or “Going Global” strategy has brought an increasing number ...

Despite efforts to improve tax revenue performance, tax revenues have not been responsive to overall GDP growth. This has resulted in a tax-to-GDP ratio that has stagnated at about 13% for some time. The stagnant tax effort ...

With the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997, Government committed to provide free education to all children of primary school going age. Through the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Uganda ...

At a time when unemployment -particularly youth unemployment- is at its highest levels, there have been concerns that the youth have resorted to gambling as a source of livelihood. However, not so much empirical evidence ...

Uganda’s Public Finance and Management Act 2015 mandates the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), to issue a certificate that attests to the gender- ...

The study, aimed at establishing whether the protection given to the list of sensitive products since 2005: has increased the EAC regional capacity to produce, reduced the importation of the same products from the rest of ...

In light of the likely negative impacts of gambling, the industry needs to be strictly controlled, well regulated and effectively policed. Presently, the gambling industry is regulated by the National Lotteries Board (NLB) ...

Over the last three decades, Uganda’s main tax objective has been to mobilize domestic revenue as a way of providing essential public services and reducing foreign aid dependence. However, despite the sustained growth of ...

The purpose of this technical brief is to promote a common understanding of an intersectional feminist analysis and approach to sex work in the context of Uganda, where multiple often divisive arguments have been advanced ...

Social Accountability can be defined as citizens’ capacity to hold the state and service providers to account in order to make them more responsive to the needs of citizens and beneficiaries. Examples of social accountability ...