Occasional Papers

Despite the existence of a fairly strong, enabling legal and policy framework, young women in Uganda continue to face a number of challenges as they make crucial transiti [...]

Fertility decisions and associated impacts on young women’s entry into the labour markets are major policy concerns in sub Saharan Africa. This paper jointly estimates [...]

Poor educational attainment, early marriages, low age at first birth and poor labour market outcomes continue to be of concern for young women in Uganda. Using the School [...]

The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) evaluates the quality of a country’s present policy and institutional framework. Quality refers to how conducive [...]

Poorly functioning public sector institutions and weak governance are major constraints to growth and equitable development in many developing countries. It is imperative [...]

The Uganda National Fertiliser Policy (NFP) brings together all the related fragmented regulations into a single and comprehensive policy framework on fertiliser. In the [...]

Public sector organizations often rely on reports by local monitors that are costly to verify and that serve twin objectives: to incentivize agent performance, and to pro [...]

Using a computable general equilibrium model, this paper examines the growth and welfare effects of three macroeconomic shocks in Uganda during the period 2010 17:changes [...]

The protracted and brutal armed conflict between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda spanned over two decades and left [...]

Youth unemployment and underemployment pose a formidable challenge for the Government of Uganda. As a result, the government has embraced youth entrepreneurship as an ave [...]