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Economy of Uganda

Index Economy of Uganda

Endowed with significant natural resources, including ample fertile land, regular rainfall, and mineral deposits, it is thought that Uganda could feed all of Africa if it were commercially farmed. [1]

85 relations: Africa, African Union, Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium, Bank of Uganda, Banking in Uganda, Beryl, Burundi, Civil war, Clay, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Copper, Cotton, Daily Monitor, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Economic transformation, Energy in Uganda, Entebbe, Entebbe International Airport, Financial Times, Fish, Flower, Fruit, GE Power, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Gold, Granite, Gross domestic product, Gulu, Hide (skin), Hoima International Airport, Idi Amin, Indian Ocean, Iron, Jinja, Uganda, Kampala, Kampala Associated Advocates, Kasese, KPMG, Lake Victoria, Latitude, Limestone, List of countries by exports, List of countries by GDP (nominal), List of countries by real GDP growth rate, Manufacturing, Mbale, Mica, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda), Ministry of Works and Transport (Uganda), ..., Mombasa, Northern Corridor, Pakwach, Politics of Uganda, Poverty in Uganda, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Raymond W. Baker, ReliefWeb, Reuters, Rwanda, Soroti, South Sudan, Standard & Poor's, Tantalite, Tea, The Daily Telegraph, The EastAfrican, Tin, Tobacco, Tororo, Tourism in Uganda, Tullow Oil, Tungsten, Uganda, Uganda Investment Authority, Uganda Oil Refinery, Uganda Securities Exchange, Ugandan shilling, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United States, Vanilla, Vegetable, Western Region, Uganda, World Bank Group, World Trade Organization. Expand index (35 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

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Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium

Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC), is a consortium of international companies that have agreed with the government of Uganda, to invest in, construct, operate and co-own the Uganda Oil Refinery.

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Bank of Uganda

The Bank of Uganda (Benki Kuu ya Uganda) is the central bank of Uganda.

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Banking in Uganda

Before Uganda's independence in 1962, government-owned institutions dominated most banking in Uganda.

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Beryl

Beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi (Republika y'Uburundi,; République du Burundi, or), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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Civil war

A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology, is a war between organized groups within the same state or country.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a free trade area with nineteen member states stretching from Libya to Swaziland.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Daily Monitor

The Daily Monitor is Uganda's leading independent daily newspaper.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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East African Community

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Economic transformation

In economics, economic transformation refers to the continuous process of (1) moving labour and other resources from lower- to higher-productivity sectors (structural change or structural transformation) and (2) raising within-sector productivity growth.

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Energy in Uganda

Burning of renewable resources provides approximately 90 percent of the energy in Uganda, though the government is attempting to become energy self-sufficient.

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Entebbe

Entebbe is a major town in Central Uganda.

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Entebbe International Airport

Entebbe International Airport is the principal international airport of Uganda.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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GE Power

GE Power (formerly known as GE Energy) is an American energy techniques company, owned by General Electric.

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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Gulu

Gulu is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Hide (skin)

A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use.

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Hoima International Airport

Hoima International Airport, also Kabaale International Airport, is a airport under construction in Uganda.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada (2816 August 2003) was a Ugandan politician and military officer.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Jinja, Uganda

Jinja is a town in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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Kampala Associated Advocates

Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) is an international law firm based in Uganda with a presence in the countries of the African Great Lakes.

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Kasese

Kasese is a town north of Lake George in the Western Region of Uganda.

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KPMG

KPMG is a professional service company and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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List of countries by exports

This is a list of countries by merchandise exports, based on The World Factbook of the CIA.

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List of countries by GDP (nominal)

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.

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List of countries by real GDP growth rate

This article includes a list of countries and dependent territories sorted by their real gross domestic product growth rate; the rate of growth of the value of all final goods and services produced within a state in a given year.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

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Mbale

Mbale is a city in Eastern Region of Uganda.

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Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.

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Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)

The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) is a cabinet-level government ministry of Uganda.

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Ministry of Works and Transport (Uganda)

The Ministry of Works and Transport is a Cabinet level government ministry of Uganda, that is mandated to plan, develop and maintain an economic, efficient and effective transport infrastructure, and transport services by road, rail, water, and air.

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.

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Northern Corridor

Northern Corridor is the busiest and most important transport route in East and Central Africa, providing a gateway through Kenya to the landlocked economies of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern DR Congo, as well as South Sudan.

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Pakwach

Pakwach is a town in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Politics of Uganda

Uganda is a presidential republic, in which the President of Uganda is both head of state and head of government.

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Poverty in Uganda

Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than 2.50 United States dollars (USD) purchasing power parity.

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Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Radio-Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster of Ireland.

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Raymond W. Baker

Raymond W. Baker (born October 30, 1935) is an American businessman, scholar, author, and "authority on financial crime." He is the founder and president of Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy organization in Washington, DC working to curtail illicit financial flows.

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ReliefWeb

ReliefWeb is the largest humanitarian information portal in the world.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

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Soroti

Soroti is the main municipal, commercial, and administrative centre of Soroti District in the Eastern Region of Uganda, lying near Lake Kyoga.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.

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Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P) is an American financial services company.

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Tantalite

The mineral group tantalite is the primary source of the chemical element tantalum.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub (bush) native to Asia.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The EastAfrican

The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Tororo

Tororo is a town in the Eastern Region of Uganda.

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Tourism in Uganda

Tourism in Uganda is focused on Uganda's landscape and wildlife.

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Tullow Oil

Tullow Oil plc is a multinational oil and gas exploration company founded in Tullow, Ireland with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

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Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Uganda Investment Authority

The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) is a semi-autonomous investment promotion and facilitation organisation in Uganda and is owned by the government of Uganda.

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Uganda Oil Refinery

The Uganda Oil Refinery is a planned crude oil refinery in Uganda.

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Uganda Securities Exchange

The Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) is the principal stock exchange of Uganda.

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Ugandan shilling

The shilling (sign: USh; code: UGX) is the currency of Uganda.

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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia).

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

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Western Region, Uganda

The Western region is one of four regions in the country of Uganda.

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World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (WBG) (Groupe de la Banque mondiale) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

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World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Uganda

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