Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is time to shift the discussion from the motivations of disenfranchised ...

One method of combating extreme poverty is providing cash grants to allow people to start businesses. We go to Uganda to take a look at one such... Innovating Ways to Address Poverty in Uganda One ...

President Museveni further revealed how through his wealth creation message in the 1960s, managed to transform the lives of the people of Ankole and now they are living a prosperous life. President ...

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those ...

Uganda has registered significant economic gains under the National Resistance Movement (NRM), driven by sustained growth, export expansion, infrastructure development and deliberate wealth creation ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cost-effective, high-impact projects that enable extremely poor households to escape poverty funded by USAID were terminated earlier this year; one is able ...

The economic struggles facing many Ugandans today, especially the youth, remind me of Chris Gardner, author of The Pursuit of Happyness—a memoir later adapted into an award-winning film starring Will ...

DANBURY -- Tony Ssonko was one of the lucky children in Uganda -- he was able to attend boarding school. He still grew up in poverty, and when he moved to America at age 12, he was still poor, making ...

Wednesday's Public Poverty Forum in Kampala had one blogger, Tumwijukue, asking, “Did they (re)define poverty? Did they speak of poverty of the mind? Or did they merely use the event as a networking ...

Dr. Francisca Ayodeji Akala, World Bank Country Manager for Uganda, emphasised the need for Uganda to transform its economy ...

This paper discusses Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) 2004/05–2007/08. The PEAP provides an overarching framework to guide public action to eradicate poverty. It has been prepared ...

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country, with a troubled history, set astride the equator in East Africa. Striving to become a country of relative stability and prosperity, ...