An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Uganda

The goal of the Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) of Uganda is to evaluate the investment climate in Uganda in all its operational dimensions and to promote policies to strengthen the private sector and encourage broad-based economic growth. Sust...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO BANK ACCESS TO CREDIT ACCESS TO FINANCE ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES ACCOUNTING ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AIR BANK ACCOUNT BANK CREDIT BANK FINANCING BANK LOAN BANKING SECTOR BANKS BINDING CONSTRAINT BORROWING BRANCHES BROKERS BUSINESS LOANS COLLATERAL COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS COMPANY COMPETITORS CONSUMER GOODS CORRUPTION COUNTRY COMPARISONS COUNTRY RISK CREDIT INFORMATION CREDIT INSTITUTIONS CREDITOR CREDITOR RIGHTS CREDITORS CURRENCY DEBT DEBT CONTRACTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DOMESTIC MARKET EARNINGS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPANSION EXPORTERS FARES FARMERS FINANCIAL BURDEN FINANCIAL COST FINANCIAL COSTS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FIRM PERFORMANCE FIRMS FOREIGN MARKETS FORMAL ECONOMY FREIGHT FREIGHT COSTS FUEL GLOBAL ECONOMY GOVERNMENT POLICIES GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GOVERNMENT REVENUES GOVERNMENT SPENDING GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HIGH INTEREST RATES HIGH TRANSPORTATION HOUSEHOLDS ID INDICATORS OF ACCESS INFLATION INFORMAL ECONOMY INSPECTION INTERNATIONAL MARKETS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTING INVESTMENT CLIMATE INVESTMENT CLIMATES INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES JOB CREATION LABOR COSTS LABOR MARKET LAND REGISTER LARGE ENTERPRISE LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL SYSTEM LIMITED ACCESS LIMITED ACCESS TO FINANCE LIVING STANDARDS LOAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES MICROENTERPRISES MONETARY FUND MORTGAGE NOMINAL INTEREST RATES OVERDRAFT OVERDRAFTS PERSONAL LOANS PHYSICAL CAPITAL PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTIVITY RAIL RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE RAIL LINK RED TAPE RETAINED EARNINGS RISK AVERSION ROAD ROADS RULE OF LAW SMALL FIRMS SOURCE OF INFORMATION TAX TAX ADMINISTRATION TAX BURDEN TAX LAWS TAX LIABILITY TAX RATE TAX RATES TAXATION TRADING TRANSACTION TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COSTS TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TRIP TRUE URBAN AREAS VEHICLE WAGES WORKING CAPITAL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/16597247/assessment-investment-climate-uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12249

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Summary:	The goal of the Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) of Uganda is to evaluate the investment climate in Uganda in all its operational dimensions and to promote policies to strengthen the private sector and encourage broad-based economic growth. Sustained improvements in living standards depend on broad-based growth. Growth will only occur, however, if firms improve their productivity by investing in human and physical capital and by increasing their technological capacity. But firms will only do this when the investment climate is favorable. Throughout the report, Uganda's investment climate is compared to the investment climates of three groups of countries: 1) nearby countries in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi); 2) middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that have successfully diversified out of primary production into other sectors (Mauritius, South Africa and Swaziland); and 3) several fast growing countries in East Asia that have also successfully diversified out of primary production into export-oriented manufacturing (China, Malaysia, and Thailand). Finally, infrastructure appears to be a more serious problem for microenterprises than for Small, Medium-sized or Large Enterprise (SMLEs). Although the differences in the number of outages and losses during transportation between registered microenterprises, unregistered microenterprises, and SMLEs were small and statistically insignificant, access does appear to be a more serious problem for microenterprises.

An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Uganda

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