In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …

We examine the viability of inorganic fertiliser use in Uganda, using the 2005/06 Uganda National Household Survey data …-crop profitability is likely to be counter-productive to the drive of increasing agricultural productivity and household income in Uganda …. Hence, the drive to increase fertiliser use in Uganda can succeed only if farmers are widely sensitized not about the …

. fish and minibus (“matatu”) services in Uganda, East Africa since the mid-1980ties. …

This paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/93 and … poverty increases with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are … about 60 percent more vulnerable compared to their counterparts in central Uganda. The study also finds that causes of …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …

measures as well as on a firm’s profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum …