Developing Uganda
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-85255-395-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume assesses Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986.
Uganda's recovery has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This text assesses whether the reality lives up to the image which has so impressed the donors.It incorporates the influential Roskilde series of meetings between Ugandans, academics and officials of international organizations. The success of the reforms so far is considered, as are the future prospects.
North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers
Uganda's recovery has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This text assesses whether the reality lives up to the image which has so impressed the donors.It incorporates the influential Roskilde series of meetings between Ugandans, academics and officials of international organizations. The success of the reforms so far is considered, as are the future prospects.
North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers
Reviews / Votes
This timely collection of twenty chapters presents revisionist insights into both African studies in general and scholarship on Uganda in particular... it not only offers the newcomer to Uganda a good introduction to topical issues, but also engages readers who are more familiar with the country in argument. - -- Jan Kees van Donge * AFRICAN AFFAIRS * ...a good picture of the current status of Uganda - CHOICE Par la richesse et la diversite de leurs analyses, ces ... livres collectifs s'etaient rapidement imposes comme ouvrages de reference... Developing Uganda ajoute une pierre a cet ambitieux edifice scientifique. - * POLITIQUE AFRICAINE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-395-4 (9780852553954)
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Michael Twaddle | Holger Bernt Hansen | Michael Twaddle
Developing Uganda
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07/1998
James Currey
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Content
Introduction: ten years of change in Uganda. Part One Growing out of poverty: changes in poverty patterns; economic aspects of the transition from civil war; developing industry; the progress of privatization; trade liberalization issues; loan funds and development; food production in urban areas; developments at Jinja. Part Two Changing political considerations: constitutionalizing politics; gender issues; empowering women; indigenous NGOs and political participation; land tenure issues; changing the civil service; developments in decentralization policy. Part Three Health and population policies: AIDS and development; who cares for the carers?; population policies. Part Four Local ideas of development: Alur reaction; the new world of Alice Lakwena; development at the grassroots.