Clientelism and ethnic divisions in African countries
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 116, Heft 465, S. 621-647
ISSN: 1468-2621
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 116, Heft 465, S. 621-647
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 116, Heft 465, S. 621-647
ISSN: 0001-9909
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In: World Development, Band 40, Heft 9
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 40, Heft 9, S. 1870-1881
In spite of serious external shocks and political destabilisation in part of the country, Uganda has remained a good economic performer since the late 1980s, with over a decade of high per capita growth in excess of three per cent. This study concludes that Uganda's medium to long-term success will depend on the achievements in institutional reforms, including raising the quality of the civil service, curbing corruption and implementing an effective regulatory framework. This is important as a poorly functioning public sector is both unable to uphold the rule of law, thus losing the public goodwill necessary for implementing new measures, and a burden on the private sector as it implies increased transaction costs. There is a widespread domestic and international concern that the civil strife in the Great Lakes Region might lead Uganda and its neighbours from the path of economic reform back to socio-economic instability.
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 168-169
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 181-209
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractThis paper, based on a survey of farm households in Uganda's Masaka district, analyses the impact of the country's economic decline on the rural sector. The economic crisis has reduced the flow of resources from the urban areas, in terms of both goods and services and remittances from urban‐based relatives. To preserve their livelihoods, rural dwellers have had to diversify their sources of income. Ability to do this is constrained not only by household characteristics, such as size, age and education of head and time endowment, but also by economic variables such as the existence of markets, size of land holding and credit availability. It is argued that to reincorporate peasants into the modern sector it is necessary to remove the barriers which prevent them from realizing a fair return on their production factors and assets.
In: Journal of international development, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 181-209
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 20, Heft 10, S. 1423-1441
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 57-75
ISSN: 0225-5189
Uganda is a good example of the challenges facing a poor country attempting to achieve a measure of external and internal balance. The adjustment agenda has been a complex of strategies that have ranged from the revamping of the incentive structure to the reconstitution of the public service. Due to the depth of the earlier crisis and the severity of the continued external disturbances, results from the adjustment effort have been relatively meagre. (DSE)
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 20, Heft 10, S. 1423
ISSN: 0305-750X
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 57-76
ISSN: 2158-9100
In: Population and development review, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 355
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: WIDER discussion paper, 2001/104
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 56, Heft 9, S. 1745-1762
ISSN: 1743-9140
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