Uganda has made significant progress in re ducing the anti-export bias in its trade policy in the 1990s. Taxes on exports have been abolished, and import protection has been reduced considerably. Trade polic y barriers are only a component, albeit important, of the transactions costs associat ed...

The Ugandan economy has been transformed since 1987. We ask how effective have the reforms been in increasing the incentives to exporters. Uganda has made significant progress in reducing the anti-export bias in its trade policy. Taxes on exports have been abolished, the foreign exchange market...

This paper evaluates the impact on Uganda of the liberalisation of world trade, especially in agricultural commodities, as proposed in the Uruguay Round. We can draw three broad conclusions. First, the impact of multilateral liberalisation on a low-income country such as Uganda appears to be...

The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to...

The paper examines the flow of workers between employment states, the role of education in these transitions and the impact of the transitions on earnings. It uses panel data for three waves (2005/06, 2009/10 and 2010/11) of household surveys in Uganda. Using the Markov chain process, we...