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| Title: | Rebuilding Organisation Capacity in Uganda under the National Resistance Movement |
| Author: | Brett, Edwin A. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 53-80 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Uganda |
| Subjects: | institutions economic policy decentralization management Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161080 |
| Abstract: | The political optimism generated in Uganda by eight years of progress has now become a positive social force, but it would be a mistake to underestimate the problems which remain to be solved, since the processes which sustain the recovery have yet to be effectively institutionalized. This article first outlines the economic regression and institutional decay of the 1960s and 1970s, and the emergence of a process of structural change and regeneration from the mid-1970s. Then it analyses the building of new institutional structures under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) since 1986, focusing on what has yet to be done, despite the significant progress made to date. It looks at the conditions under which policies are actually being implemented, taking into account the adequacy of the institutional structures involved, as well as the appropriateness of their incentive systems. To illustrate the key problems identified, two programmes are reviewed: the attempt to reallocate political and administrative responsibility through decentralization, and the struggle to depoliticize the economy through liberalization. Special attention is paid to changes in the agricultural marketing system (the Coffee Marketing Board, the Lint Marketing Board, the Produce Marketing Board), and to the privatization of the parastatal sector. Notes, ref. |
