Quantcast
Channel: Uganda – IMF Blog
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Africa and the Global Economic Crisis: Weathering the Storm

By Antoinette Sayeh Last week, my colleague Hugh Bredenkamp talked about how the IMF is helping the low-income countries overcome the global  economic crisis. This week, I want to follow this theme,...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Beyond Growth: the Importance of Inclusion

By Antoinette Sayeh (Version in  Français) Economists care about growth.  Governments care about what it can achieve:  more jobs and more income for more people.  An increasing number of African...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shared Frustrations: How to Make Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa More...

By Antoinette M. Sayeh (Version in Français) Suddenly it’s the thing everyone is talking about. Income inequality. Not just between countries, but inequality within countries. In North Africa and the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Africa’s Success: More Than A Resource Story

By Antoinette M. Sayeh When meeting with people outside Africa, I’m often asked whether Africa’s growth takeoff since the mid-1990s has been simply a “commodity story”—a ride fueled by windfall gains...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How Low-Income Countries Can Diversify and Grow

By Chris Papageorgiou, Lisa Kolovich, and Sean Nolan  (Version in Español) Low-income countries have spent a lot of time thinking about how they can achieve faster growth, and we have done some...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion

By David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, and D. Filiz Unsal (version in Español) Economists are paying increasing attention to the link between financial inclusion—greater availability of and access to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Building A Monetary Union in Africa

By iMFdirect It’s like the European Union but for East Africa. In this podcast by the IMF, find out how Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi stand to benefit from the creation of the East...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Managing Capital Flows in Frontier Economies

By Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Mahvash S. Qureshi  There has been a remarkable increase in financial flows to frontier economies from private sources which, in relation to their economic...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shared Frustrations: How to Make Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa More...

By Antoinette M. Sayeh (Version in Français) Suddenly it's the thing everyone is talking about. Income inequality. Not just between countries, but inequality within countries. In North Africa and the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Africa’s Success: More Than A Resource Story

By Antoinette M. Sayeh When meeting with people outside Africa, I’m often asked whether Africa’s growth takeoff since the mid-1990s has been simply a “commodity story”—a ride fueled by windfall gains...

View Article

How Low-Income Countries Can Diversify and Grow

By Chris Papageorgiou, Lisa Kolovich, and Sean Nolan  (Version in Español) Low-income countries have spent a lot of time thinking about how they can achieve faster growth, and we have done some...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion

By David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, and D. Filiz Unsal (version in Español) Economists are paying increasing attention to the link between financial inclusion—greater availability of and access to...

View Article

Building A Monetary Union in Africa

By iMFdirect It’s like the European Union but for East Africa. In this podcast by the IMF, find out how Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi stand to benefit from the creation of the East...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Managing Capital Flows in Frontier Economies

By Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Mahvash S. Qureshi  There has been a remarkable increase in financial flows to frontier economies from private sources which, in relation to their economic...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Fruits of Growth: Economic Reforms and Lower Inequality

By Christine Lagarde Versions in: عربي (Arabic), 中文 (Chinese), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Português (Portuguese), Русский (Russian), and Español (Spanish) Growth is essential for improving the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Uganda’s Recipe for Growth

By IMFBlog July 21, 2017 Construction worker in Uganda (photo: James Akena/Reuters/Newscom) After two decades of steady growth, Uganda’s economy has slowed, and life for Ugandans is not improving fast...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Roads or Schools: A Critical Tradeoff

By Manoj Atolia, Bin Grace Li, Ricardo Marto, and Giovanni Melina November 9, 2017  Versions in 中文(Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese) Low-income countries tend to spend less...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Taxes, Debt and Development: A One-Percent Rule to Raise Revenues in Africa

By Vitor Gaspar and Abebe Aemro Selassie December 5, 2017 Versions in عربي (Arabic), 中文(Chinese),  Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese),  Русский (Russian) School children in Ghana:...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sub-Saharan Africa: Diversifying for Tomorrow

By IMFBlog February 16, 2018 Photo: iStock by Getty Images/subman Countries in sub-Saharan Africa need to diversify their economies, and the region’s youth need to be at the heart of it, says Axel...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Chart of the Week: Government Debt Is Not the Whole Story: Look at the Assets

By IMFBlog October 23, 2018 The Millennium Bridge in London, England: governments often don’t include the value of their assets, like bridges and roads, as well as natural resources, when they measure...

View Article
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images