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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Uganda: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
This Selected Issues paper tries to answer the question of how to promote employment in Uganda. It also discusses key stylized facts including labor market challenges, an overview of the labor market, and employment characteristics. Although issues relating to the determinants of employment are gaining momentum in Uganda, the literature is largely based on economic reports and qualitative studies. Uganda has implemented some social programs aimed at creating employment specifically for youth and women, though coverage is limited. These programs aim at providing an enabling environment for the private sector to create jobs and build the skills and requisite knowledge to make youth and women more employable. The existing social programs are good initiatives to address some of the labor market issues, though their coverage remains limited with funding constraints identified as one of the main challenges. Creating quality jobs will require comprehensive policies to promote headline growth and ensure inclusive growth, including measures to improve education and address challenges in gender and youth.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Uganda; wage; labor market; text; IMF staff calculation; employment sector; employment characteristic; employment opportunity; employment elasticity; Uganda UBOS report; women engagement; agriculture employment; Employment; Women; Labor markets; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global
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The Role of Productivity, Transportation Costs, and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation
Cem Karayalcin
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Mihaela Pintea
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial reallocations of resources across sectors. In this paper, we construct a multi-sector model in which there are barriers to the movement of labor from low-productivity traditional agriculture to modern sectors. With the barrier in place, we show that improvements in productivity in modern sectors (including agriculture) or reductions in transportation costs may lead to a rise in agricultural employment and through terms-oftrade effects may harm subsistence farmers if the traditional subsistence sector is larger than a critical level. This suggests that policy advice based on the earlier literature needs to be revised. Reducing barriers to mobility (through reductions in the cost of skill acquisition and institutional changes) and improving the productivity of subsistence farmers needs to precede policies designed to increase the productivity of modern sectors or decrease transportation costs.
Keywords:
WP; subsistence farming; terms of trade; Structural transformation; Subsistence agriculture; multi-sector models; Economic development; Transportation costs; transportation cost; agriculture sector; productivity improvement; modern agriculture; productivity difference; excess demand; improvement result; Agricultural sector; Productivity; Transportation; Manufacturing; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fiscal Policy and Long-Term Growth
International Monetary Fund
This paper explores how fiscal policy can affect medium- to long-term growth. It identifies the main channels through which fiscal policy can influence growth and distills practical lessons for policymakers. The particular mix of policy measures, however, will depend on country-specific conditions, capacities, and preferences. The paper draws on the Fund’s extensive technical assistance on fiscal reforms as well as several analytical studies, including a novel approach for country studies, a statistical analysis of growth accelerations following fiscal reforms, and simulations of an endogenous growth model.
Keywords:
PP; GDP growth; wage; financial crisis; total factor productivity; labor market; tax burden; fiscal policy; Fiscal consolidation; Global; Sub-Saharan Africa; Europe
Cover Technical Notes and Manuals
Revenue Administration: Autonomy in Tax Administration and the Revenue Authority Model
William Joseph Crandall
This technical note focuses on the concept of autonomy and describes why it is important in public administration. There has been a tendency for governments to increase the autonomy of their departments and agencies. The basic principle is that such autonomy can lead to better performance by removing impediments to effective and efficient management while maintaining appropriate accountability and transparency. This note explains how autonomy is relevant for revenue administration and what is the range of autonomy currently practiced. The paper also describes key measures of autonomy in revenue administration.
Keywords:
TNM; government; administration; revenue; RA governance model; tax administration; revenue administration; Revenue Authority; autonomy; governance; public administration; accounting entity; government control; government institution; government organization; government Sructures; Semi-autonomous revenue bodies; Tax administration core functions; Revenue laws; Human capital; Africa
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Uganda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
Uganda’s National Development Plan (NDP) stipulates medium-term strategic direction, development priorities, and implementation strategies. It also details Uganda’s current development status, challenges, and opportunities. The contribution of this NDP to the socioeconomic transformation will be demonstrated by improved employment levels, higher per capita income, improved labor force distribution in line with sectoral GDP shares, substantially improved human development and gender equality indicators, and the country’s competitiveness position, among others. The impressive GDP growth performance has contributed to a significant reduction in poverty levels.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Intervention description; private sector; local government; natural resources; foreign policy; information system; physical education; quality assurance; per capita income; air transport; policy management; quality of service; life skills; Global; East Africa; Africa; Middle East; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Revenue Authorities: Issues and Problems in Evaluating their Success
Ms. Maureen Kidd
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William Joseph Crandall
Revenue authorities (RAs) have been adopted by some countries as an alternative delivery model for improved revenue administration. They are sometimes seen as a possible solution to problems such as low rates of tax compliance, ineffective tax administration staff, and corruption. The paper discusses RAs as a governance model, from the perspective of revenue administration and the almost universal desire to improve performance and compliance with the law. It compiles and analyses features of the model, examines reasons why revenue authorities were established, and explores the extent to which countries have evaluated the success of the model. It also assesses countries' own perceptions about how this model may have contributed to tax administration reform. Further, the paper discusses data collection difficulties in carrying out an assessment using econometric analysis, and the problem of attributing changes in performance to a particular governance model. The paper concludes that while there are subjective perceptions among countries with revenue authorities that their model has led to improved revenue administration and has spurred modernization, there is no objective analysis that countries with RAs have performed better in this regard than countries without RAs.
Keywords:
WP; RA governance model; human resources; government department; RA governance structure; Revenue authority; revenue administration; governance; tax compliance autonomy; accountability; tax; customs; RA country; RA model; RA performance; RA governance framework; Tax administration core functions; Human capital; Human resources in revenue administration; Customs administration core functions; Africa; administration Tributaria; Ra survey population; D. human resources autonomy; Tax Administration Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria; Ra scope; Caribbean
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Uganda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
This paper discusses Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) 2004/05–2007/08. The PEAP provides an overarching framework to guide public action to eradicate poverty. It has been prepared through a consultative process involving central and local government, parliament, donors, and civil society. The PEAP aims at contributing toward transforming Uganda into a middle-income country. The government's strategy in the short term is aimed at strengthening both agriculture and manufacturing. For agriculture, critical interventions include infrastructure, information and support to farmers’ marketing. For manufacturing, the government will strengthen infrastructure, improve governance, and boost the education of the workforce.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; private sector; public expenditure; economic value; civil society; community development; political system; government expenditure; public service; prison farm; financial product; government parastatal; government policy; health sector; audit government policy; government programme; Global; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Will there Be New Emerging-Market Economies in Africa b+L2280y the Year 2020?
Mr. Jean-Claude Berthélemy
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Mr. Ludvig Söderling
This paper examines past African growth experience and attempts to simulate future ones. In addition to more commonly used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic diversification are constructed and included as factors for long-term growth. A simple model is constructed for the purpose of simulating growth scenarios up to the year 2020 for Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Tanzania, and Uganda. Even if one makes relatively optimistic assumptions, Africa is not likely to reach "Asian tiger" levels of growth. The results also suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture.
Keywords:
WP; terms of trade; Africa; growth; productivity; education; labor reallocation; diversification; reallocation effect; GDP ratio; CFA franc; production function; productivity gain; growth scenario; reallocation openness; diversification index; TFP gain; diversification gain; Cote d'Ivoire II; Human capital; Total factor productivity; Exports; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Evidenceon the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization
Mr. Steven A Barnett
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between privatization and measures of fiscal and macroeconomic performance. One of the main findings is that privatization proceeds transferred to the budget tend to be saved. Specifically, they are largely used to reduce domestic financing, with little evidence that they are used to finance a larger deficit. However, by construction, this part of the study is restricted to privatization proceeds transferred to the budget, leaving open the question of what happens to those proceeds not transferred to the budget. The other main finding is that total privatization (as opposed to just the proceeds transferred to the budget) is correlated with an improvement in macroeconomic performance as manifested in higher real GDP growth and lower unemployment. However, this result needs to be interpreted cautiously as the evidence is not sufficient to establish causality.
Keywords:
WP; privatization proceeds; proceeds; privatization; viewing privatization; privatization coefficient; privatization process; privatization yield result; Budget planning and preparation; Unemployment; Unemployment rate
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Uganda: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix describes how to improve value-added tax (VAT) compliance in Uganda. The paper highlights that although the VAT in Uganda has a single positive rate and broad coverage, its initial threshold of U Sh 20 million may have been set too low, and a number of items that should have been exempted were zero rated. This paper presents a brief survey of the financial sector of Uganda. Public sector reforms and the privatization program are also discussed.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; VAT; enterprise; taxpayer; government; tax; interbank treasury bill market; privatized enterprise; monopoly position; master repurchase agreement; BOU control; enforcement officer; Public employment; Privatization; Value-added tax; Education spending; Civil service; Sub-Saharan Africa