Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya
Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0821369202

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This book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.

Uganda’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
Uganda’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation

Author: Diao, Xinshen

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13:

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Uganda experienced annual economic growth of 5.8 percent between 2009 and 2019 (UBOS 2020). While restrictive COVID-19 policy measures in 2020 and 2021 caused a slowdown in the economy, the country has largely been spared the adverse effects of the global commodity market disruptions arising from the Russia-Ukraine war that started in 2022 and from the 2023 global recession (Arndt et al. 2023; Diao and Thurlow 2023). Uganda’s GDP growth is projected to reach 5.5 percent in 2023 and 6.1 percent in 2024 (World Bank 2023), suggesting that the economy is resuming its pre-pandemic growth trajectory. Agriculture remains an important sector, accounting for one-quarter of GDP and two-thirds of Uganda’s jobs. The agriculture sector also performed well in the 2009 to 2019 period, growing at 5.0 percent annually (UBOS 2020). Thanks to a positive terms of trade shock and an established trade surplus in agrifood products, this sector played an important role in weathering the 2022 and 2023 global commodity market shocks (Diao and Thurlow 2023). In this brief, we examine Uganda’s economic growth and transformation trajectory, both historically and going forward. Rather than focusing on the role of primary agriculture, we examine how the country’s broader agrifood system (AFS) is contributing to that transformation process.

Doing Business 2020
Doing Business 2020

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1464814414

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Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law
The Economic Structure of Corporate Law

Author: Frank H. Easterbrook

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780674235397

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This text argues that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties involved in corporate enterprise would reach if they always bargained at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. It states that corporate l

Economy of Uganda
Economy of Uganda

Author: Ivan Kushnir

Publisher: Economy in Countries

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781795387132

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This book about the economy of Uganda from the 1970s to the 2010s. Source data from UN Data.Size. In the 2010s, the GDP of Uganda was equal to $24.7 billion per year; the value of agriculture was $6.1 billion. Since the share in the world is between .01% and .1%, the country is classified as a small economy.Productivity. In the 2010s, the gross domestic product per capita was $644.5, the value of agriculture per capita was $159.7. Since the productivity is less the average below average, the economy is classified as least developed.Growth. In the 2010s, the growth of GDP was 5.0%; the growth of agriculture was 2.3%.Structure. In the 2010s, the economy of Uganda included: agriculture (45.6%), service (23.8%), trade (14.7%), industry (10.3%), transportation (3.3%), and construction (2.3%).Export and import. In the 2010s, the import was 57.1% higher than the export, the net import was equal to 10.7% of the GDP. The technological structure of export is not better than the structure of import.Consumption and reproduction. The attitude of reproduction to the consumption is better than the global average, so the share of GDP in the world will increase.

Uganda Economic Update, 18th Edition, December 2021
Uganda Economic Update, 18th Edition, December 2021

Author: World Bank

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Uganda's economy was recovering well, up until the second wave of COVID-19 infections and subsequent lockdown in mid-2021. Since then, activity has rebounded - much like after the first lockdown - but the country is likely to still face a stop-start recovery until there is wider coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine. Notwithstanding this recovery, there has been a rise in poverty and - with the shift back to agriculture for some workers - an increase in household vulnerabilities. We have also seen a widening of inequalities, which have been most severe in the education sector, where schools have now been fully or partially closed for longer than any other country in the world. As a result, Uganda has a long way to go in its quest to build-back-better. Eighteenth Uganda Economic Update includes the special topic of Putting Women at the Center of Uganda's Economic Revival. In line with the structure of earlier editions of the Uganda Economic Update series, this report reviews recent economic developments - with particular attention paid to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic - provides an outlook for the macro-economy, and then delves into the special topic.