Author: Kambo Nicholas Mwaule

Jinja: For three consecutive years, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics has flagged Busoga region as one, sometimes the leading poorest region in Uganda. One of the most recent of such reports, released in 2021 says the region contributes 14% to national poverty. Other data indicates that 74.8 percent of people in the region are considered poor and insecure. In the book Rural Development – Education, Sustainability, Multi-functionality, edited by Paola de Salvo and Manuel Vaquero Pineiro, it is argued that Poverty reduction can be attained by undertaking economic and institutional reforms to enhance efficiency and improve the utilization of resources;…