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Journal Article
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Fiscal state capacity
Presumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. It has been reformed several times since its conception. The latest reform in July 2020 sought to make the presumptive regime more progressive, simpler and fairer to small firms. The revised rates have however raised...
In 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic caused an economic crisis that disrupted the Ugandan labour market. How large were the associated income losses across different industries and population groups? To what extent did the general tax-benefit system mitigate the adverse effects of the...
Journal Article
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Can agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility for the program reduced the proportion of household...
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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
Book Chapter
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– Explorations using a New Set of Poverty Lines
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aid, Education Policy, and Development
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Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
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– Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
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Development Aid
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