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Since 1995, Uganda has experienced rapid economic growth, but it is not clear to what extent this positive development can be attributed to Structural Adjustment. [25] Uganda is a member of the World Trade Organization, since 1 January 1995 and a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, from 25 October 1962. [26]
Setting these priorities helped improve Uganda's credentials with international aid organizations and donor countries of the West, but in the first three years of Museveni's rule, coffee production remained the only economic activity inside Uganda to display consistent growth and resilience. [2] In 1987 GDP rose 4.5 percent above the 1986 level ...
Uganda is increasingly developing other energy sources besides hydroelectricity, including evaluation of nuclear energy. [9] The energy generated is expected to be used internally through the expansion of electricity access in Uganda from estimated 20 percent in 2016 (about 900,000 subscribers) to 40 percent in 2020 (about 3 million subscribers ...
Hut and metallic shack next to a high voltage electricity substation. In the 1980s, charcoal and fuel wood met more than 95 percent of Uganda's energy needs. [4] In 2005 and 2006, low water levels of Lake Victoria, the main source of the country's electricity generation potential, led to a generation shortage and an energy crisis.
Uganda receives external support from several donor agencies. In 2002, a Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) was adopted for the water and sanitation sector. [3]: page 5 Under the SWAp most development partners have agreed to channel their financing through the national budget. According to a 2006 report by UN-Water, the SWAp has led to the increased ...
The Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA) is a government free zones agency established by the Parliament of Uganda.Operating under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, UFZA is responsible for the establishment, development, management, marketing, maintenance, supervision and control of free zones in Uganda and to provide for other related matters.
He is the longest-serving chief executive in the Bank of Uganda's history as well as the Africa’s longest-serving central bank governor at the time of his death. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He is credited with many of the sound economic policies adopted by the Uganda government at the urging of the central bank during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.
[17] Understandably, Uganda was ranked 140th out of 176 nations on the Corruption Perceptions Index. [19] A specific scandal, which had significant international consequences and highlighted the presence of corruption in high-level government offices, was the embezzlement of $12.6 mil in donor funds from the Office of the Prime Minister in 2012.