Aid and Reform in Uganda: A Country Case Study
Source: Economic Policy Research Consortium
Uganda’s reform programme has been one of the most successful in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-1980s. Aid and external support has in various forms helped support the generation and implementation of policy reforms. When the government first rejected and later reluctantly introduced market reforms. When the government first rejected and later reluctantly introduced market based reforms policy dialogue, advisory services, training and technical assistance were of critical importance both for the decisions to reform and the direction of the reforms. The government of Uganda has made uncharacteristically good use of technical assistance. Influences from Ghana and other countries were also very valuable during this period. When the government decided to reform in the late 1980s, financial aid and conditionality became a main, and most powerful, cause for the reform undertakings. Conditionality, which earlier had been regarded as externally imposed, was now being used by pr-reformers within the government to help push the reforms. With a very weak revenue base financial support was, and still is, necessary for implementation of most reforms. However, since 1992 with secured government ownership conditionality tends to become less relevant for inducing reforms. Policy dialogue can again become the most important donor instrument to support reform generation
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