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Optimal Allocation of Natural Resource Surpluses in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Framework : A DSGE Analysis with Evidence from Uganda

Zeufack, Albert - 2016

In low-income, capital-scarce economies that face financial and fiscal constraints, managing revenues from newly found natural resources can be a daunting challenge. The policy debate is how to scale up public investment to meet huge needs in infrastructure without generating a higher public...

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Taxation without representation? : experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid

Cuesta, Brandon de la; Milner, Helen V.; Nielson, Daniel L. - 2017

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Optimal allocation of natural resource surpluses in a dynamic macroeconomic framework : a DSGE analysis with evidence from Uganda

Zeufack, Albert G.; Kopoin, Alexandre; Nganou, … - 2016

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Microeconomic analyses of the causes and consequences of political violence

Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development `trap' that is not easy to escape from as poverty has also been found to...

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Optimal Allocation of Natural Resource Surpluses in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Framework : A DSGE Analysis with Evidence from Uganda

Zeufack, Albert - 2017

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Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?

Gelb, Alan; Majerowicz, Stephanie - 2011

In 2009, commercially exploitable reserves of oil were found in the Albertine Lakes Basin in Uganda. Along with a … number of new oil exporters, Uganda now faces the challenge of using the new resources to advance its development agenda … Uganda’s already deteriorating governance and mounting corruption raise questions about its capacity to wisely invest the oil …

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Some Consequences of the 1994-1995 Coffee Boom for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda

Shutes, Lindsay J.; McDonald, Scott; Verschoor, Arjan - 2011

in the international price of coffee for Uganda's economy. Evidence is found for a small effect on both medium …

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Does Oil Revenue Crowd Out Other Tax Revenues? Policy Lessons for Uganda

Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent De Paul; Melou, Maximillien Kaffo - 2017

with data covering 30 resource-rich countries over 1992-2012. It also discusses policy implications for Uganda, a country … light of Uganda's forthcoming exploitation of its oil, the odds of avoiding the crowding out of non-resource revenues are … government effectiveness. Currently, these indicators stand very low for Uganda as compared with Botswana …

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Aid and the Supply Side : Public Investment, Export Performance, and Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries

Adam, Christopher S.; Bevan, David L. - 2006

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short-run Dutch disease effects, ignoring the possible supply-side impact of aid financed public expenditure. In the simple model of aid and public expenditure presented here, public infrastructure generates an...

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The idea of social science in East Africa: an aspect of the development of higher education

Court, David - 1981

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