Uganda's recovery : the role of farms, firms, and government / edited by Ritva Reinikka, Paul Collier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reinikka, Ritva.

Collier, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uganda--Economic conditions--1979-.

Uganda.

Economic conditions.

Uganda--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Uganda--Politics and government--1979-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2001]

Contents:

Map of Uganda xvi

Postconflict Recovery and Macroeconomic Reforms 5

Households 6

Firms 7

Government 8

Sustainability and Lessons 10

Part I. Postconflict Recovery and Macroeconomic Reforms 13

2. Reconstruction and Liberalization: An Overview / Paul Collier, Ritva Reinikka 15

The Inheritance of Disorder 16

The Restoration of Peace 21

Growth Policies in the Context of the Postconflict Economy 24

Economic Liberalization 31

Impact on Investment and Exports 38

The Role of Aid 39

3. Exchange Reforms, Stabilization, and Fiscal Management / Mark Henstridge, Louis Kasekende 49

Exchange Reforms 50

Legalizing the Parallel Market and Exchange Rate Unification 52

The Achievement of Macroeconomic Stability 56

Planning and Implementing Fiscal Policy 58

Targets, Tradeoffs, and Costs in Macroeconomic Management 71

Part II. Household Responses and Constraints 81

4. Changes in Poverty and Inequality / Simon Appleton 83

Changes in Mean Consumption Per Capita 87

Defining an Absolute Poverty Line for Uganda 89

Sectoral Decomposition of Poverty Changes 105

Annex 4.1. Methodology 113

5. Rural Households: Incomes, Productivity, and Nonfarm Enterprises / Klaus Deininger, John Okidi 123

A Panorama of Rural Uganda 124

Intertemporal Changes in Household Income 137

Agricultural Productivity and Nonfarm Enterprises 143

Annex 5.1. Tables of Estimation Results 154

6. Crop Markets and Household Participation / Donald Larson, Klaus Deininger 177

Market Participation in the Early 1990s 178

A Market Model for Community Trade 180

The Determinants of Market Participation 191

The Effects of Price Changes on Household Welfare 194

Are Crop Markets Developing? 195

Conclusions and Policy Implications 202

Annex 6.1. Calculating Household Welfare 203

Part III. Firm Responses and Constraints 205

7. Confronting Competition: Investment, Profit, and Risk / Ritva Reinikka, Jakob Svensson 207

Investment Response 209

Constraints to Investment 216

Conclusions and Policy Recommendations 226

Annex 7.1. Data and Estimation Results 228

Annex 7.2. Derivation of the Investment Equation 231

8. Productivity and Exports / Bernard Gauthier 235

Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Productivity 236

Enterprise Responses to Changing Incentives 238

Export Response 246

Annex 8.1. Productivity Measures 253

Part IV. Government Performance from a Beneficiary Perspective 269

9. A Quest for Revenue and Tax Incidence / Duanjie Chen, John Matovu, Ritva Reinikka 271

Revenue Trends and Tax Reforms 276

Method and Data for Tax Incidence Analysis 278

Tax Incidence on Households 280

Marginal Effective Tax Rate for Firms 281

Cross-Border Comparison for Foreign Firms 288

Compliance and Tax Administration 292

Annex 9.1. Household Incidence Analysis and the Concept of Welfare Dominance 296

Annex 9.2. Marginal Effective Tax Rate 298

Annex 9.3. Figures and Tables for Household Incidence and METR 302

10. The Cost of Doing Business: Firms' Experience with Corruption / Jakob Svensson 319

The Data 321

Incidence, Level, and Effects of Corruption 321

Annex 10.1. Ranking of Constraints and Payment of Bribes 336

11. Recovery in Service Delivery: Evidence from Schools and Health Centers / Ritva Reinikka 343

Diagnostic Survey 346

Education and Public Spending 347

Health Care and Public Spending 363

Conclusions and Policy Changes 366

12. What Can We Expect from Universal Primary Education? / Simon Appleton 371

Access to Education Prior to the UPE Initiative 373

Returns to Education: Productivity and Labor Allocation Effects 378

Effects of UPE on School Quality 395

Annex 12.1. Models 401

13. Combating Illness / Paul Hutchinson 407

Health Policy and Access to Services 409

Burden of Disease 414

Demand for Curative and Preventive Services 423

Conclusions and the Way Forward 430

Annex 13.1. Data and Estimation Results 433

Part V. Sustainability and Lessons 451

14. Beyond Recovery / Paul Collier, Ritva Reinikka 453

A. Household Surveys 463

B. The Uganda Enterprise Survey 467.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821346644

OCLC:

45137592