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*The writer is the Country Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda. The column is written on behalf of 34 agencies participating in the UN-led joint appeal against the impacts of COVID-19 in Uganda COMMENT | El-Khidir Daloum | WFP | One sunny day in June 2019, in …

Poorly designed stimulus programs are not just ineffective, they can push economy into recession COMMENT | JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ AND HAMID RASHID | Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the COVID-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10% of global GDP. Yet …

  Bending its curve starts with the simple act of you not sharing junk health news that pops up in your feed COMMENT | PHILIP N. HOWARD | Would you believe that the coronavirus was developed by a government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that “patriots” created it to …

Advocates of a dead year for schools are similar to the advocates of a continuous lockdown of the economy to defeat COVID-19 OPEN LETTER |  Ass. Prof Mesharch Katusiimeh Rwebiita |  Your Excellency, as government is mulling over the fate of education institutions in this COVID-19 new normal, a group is …

Elections are like a soccer match.  If a game is going to be reduced from 90 to 60 minutes, then players should be consulted COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru |  Uganda’s electoral preparations are starting off from a ‘complicated place’. They are happening in an environment of restrictions.  Political players can’t …

The plan by government to decentralise the management of COVID-19 is a highly welcome one that if implemented, will de-congest and ease the pressure on Regional Referral Hospitals COMMENT | Walter Akena | On June 11th 2020, Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Hon. Matia Kasaija delivered the Budget …

Attempting to define details of remote work policies is a mistake: Here is what you should be doing instead COMMENT | CAROLINE SEKIWANO | Due lockdowns and stay at home notices to avoid the coronavirus disease COVID19, many employees are working remotely, mainly from their homes. The reality today, however, …

  Different local governments should be encouraged to identify where their niche is and rally the communities to place their focus on it COMMENT | Oscord Mark Otile & Phoebe Atukunda  | The National Local Economic Development (LED) policy defines LED as a process through which Local Governments (LGs), the private …

While everyone understands the financial squeese workers are going through, let’s not court more disaster COMMENT | PETER NYANZI | In the 1830s, the British Economist William Forster Lloyd wrote an essay in which he described a phenomenon he called the ‘tragedy of the commons.’ Simply put, if a shared/common …

Can this model be the path to follow to grow your business and personal finances after the lockdown? COMMENT | JEANPO OLOWO | Crisis brings clarity. In times of fear and uncertainty, extended lock down, stay home directives, non essential business closures, curfews, social distancing for your own safety and …