Makerere University, Uganda: Recent submissions
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Welfare and the East African common market: some observations
(1966)This paper is essentially about the production-effect and its fundamental importance in assessing the gains and losses incurred by members of a customs union. There are two basic ingredients in any assessment of the ... -
Labour problems in the economic and social development of Zambia
(1967-02)Zambia lying between latitude 10 degrees and 18 degrees South between longitudes 22 degrees and 33 degrees East has an area of 288, 130 square miles. It is bounded on the North by the Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and ... -
Cultural diversity and the role of traditional authority in local self governance: the case of Mozambique in Southern Africa
(1993-08-30)We will begin this article with the subject ''cultural diversity" and, in this context, examine the role traditional authority can play in the process of good governance. Therefore our principal focus will be this local, ... -
An overview on the small scale industry sector
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Improving the management of sexual maturation at primary schools: information needs from the perspective of Ugandan school children
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 2002-06-14)A series of studies conducted in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe between 2000 - 2001 about management of puberty in Primary Schools all came to the same and poignant conclusion namely: the current management of sexual maturation ... -
Local finances system and the feasibility of its decentralization
(1993-08)This paper is aiming to analyse the financial system of the cities and the feasibility of its decentralization, to demonstrate how the adoption of an autonomous financial system can lead, on one hand, to the solution of ... -
The sources and consequences of economic instability in Africa
(1983-06-13)In terms of a more recent history instability in Africa is represented by the strife in the Congo from the early 1960s; the civil war in Nigeria, numerous military coups d'etat and political assassinations, the civil war ... -
Structural Adjustment in Africa: How Can We Do it Better, How Can We Improve It?
(1994-06-12)Economic Structural Adjustment Programmes (ESAPs) have generated hot debate since they commenced. In most cases they started in mid-1980s. There has been a tendency by some observers to associate ESAPs with the International ... -
Indigenizing religious names
(1971-12-14)This is the beginning of a study that the author hopes to pursue more in the near future. It discusses one small but important and controversal aspect in the area of indigenization of the positive religions in the context ... -
On the Nyoro concept of Mahano.
(1960-03-19)The concept denoted by the Nyoro term mahano is comparable with similar notions found in other cultures. The word is the plural of the noun ihano, which means anything specially strange or marvellous. If a Nyoro wishes to ... -
The agrarian question and the role of women as chief agricultural producers in Africa: the case of Uganda
(1984-02-10)Women's participation in agricultural production cannot be viewed outside the socio-economic, socio-cultural and political contexts of the societies in which they find themselves. Similarly, agricultural productivity must ... -
Sensitized women as a development strategy: the Uganda case
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Planning methods for agriculture in less-developed countries.
(1966)This paper will consider agricultural planning methodology under four heads. Firstly, the major features and problems of t he typical agricultural sector in a less- developed country are discussed with particular reference ... -
Factors influencing the location of industry in Uganda
(1966-10-07)This paper attempts to give a brief description of the factors influencing the location of industry within Uganda. It should be kept , in mind that it is not the intention of this paper to evaluate the role of the common ... -
Food systems under stress: the Uganda situation
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Land law and land law policy in Eastern Africa
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Aspects of urban unemployment in Uganda.
(1966)From the early years of this century, a periodic problem besetting development in Uganda has been shortage of labour, a shortage which was shared by the Baganda farmers who came to depend on hired labour. From the 1920s ... -
A company that failed
(1954-08)