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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda

Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new …

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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Archibong, Belinda - 2016

Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...

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Urban development transitions and their implications for poverty reduction and policy planning in Uganda

Mukwaya, Paul Isolo; Sengendo, Hannington; Lwasa, Shuaib - 2010

Urbanization is one of the critical global trends shaping the future of humanity. At the same time, it has been argued that full development requires an urbanized environment. This paper attempts to examine and characterize the major phases of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban...

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Compliance rates with local and national business taxes: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda

Vincent, Rose Camille; Dietrich, Stephan; McNabb, Kyle - 2023

This paper investigates business tax compliance in a multilevel tax structure with limited coordination. We study the case of Kampala, where firms are taxed at national and local levels-by the Uganda Revenue Authority and the Kampala Capital City Authority, respectively-and where the agencies...

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? How economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...

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Horizontal inequalities and affirmative action: An analysis of attitudes towards redistribution across groups in Africa

Langer, Arnim; Stewart, Frances; Schroyens, Maarten - 2016

Inequalities between ethnic or racial groups, defined as horizontal inequalities, are pervasive and persistent. They persist due to cumulative and reinforcing inequalities arising from unequal access to different types of capital. Affirmative action policies can provide promising opportunities...

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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda

Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …

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