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How digital convenience is rewriting the rules of banking
While physical branches remain important for advisory services and complex transactions, they are no longer the primary centre of financial activity
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Uganda’s sugarcane boom leaves families hungry: what needs to change
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Rethinking finance for Uganda’s growth
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Africa’s new credit agency: why it’s needed
The African Peer Review Mechanism frames the new agency not as a challenger to the world’s big three – Moody’s, S&P Global Ratings or Fitch – but as complementary.
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Healthcare should be everyone’s business
I heard someone once say, “You can have a million problems in the world, but when you have a health problem, you have only one problem.” It is a simple thought, but it…
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Climate Change Crisis: Is Government really serious?
On June 13, Hon. Matia Kasaija, the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, delivered the budget speech for the financial year 2024/25 under the theme…
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Why is URA over-complicating a simple VAT system?
The ongoing fight between small-scale traders and the tax authorities is a clear indication that the administration of Value Added Tax (VAT) has glaring gaps, which must…
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Private sector involvement in youth skilling could boost employment
Uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world, with 78 per cent of its citizens under the age of 30. Such a high number is an opportunity for the country’s…
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Why Bitature Bailout is a Sensible Decision
Recent media reports that Government is considering to bailout business Patrick Bitature by acquiring Electromaxx, his thermal power generation company based in Tororo…
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From profit-centric to purpose-driven is the new norm for a sustainable business
Not too long ago, businesses had a singular obsession of making profits for their shareholders. The bottom line reigned supreme, and little else registered on the…
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The Activists working on the front line to protect our planet won’t give up
Of the four fundamental interactions, gravitation is the dominant at astronomical length scales. Gravity effects are cumulative; by contrast, the effects of positive and…
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Our disaster President in a woke world – why it will never happen again
By astronomical convention, the four seasons can be determined by the solstices—the points in the orbit of maximum axial tilt toward or away from the Sun—and the…
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Pandemic stories – the real people who were left behind and forgotten
Cream skimmed from milk may be called “sweet cream” to distinguish it from cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making. Whey cream has a lower fat content and…
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Is this the end of private tuition? More parents begin homeschooling their children
Of the four fundamental interactions, gravitation is the dominant at astronomical length scales. Gravity effects are cumulative; by contrast, the effects of positive and…
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Of course we are stressed – the mainstream news is no longer a daily morning ritual
There are a number of different theories and hypotheses regarding early state formation that seek generalizations to explain why the state developed in some places but…
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Our Opinion Editor’s take on what would happen if we could all afford a private therapist
By astronomical convention, the four seasons can be determined by the solstices—the points in the orbit of maximum axial tilt toward or away from the Sun—and the…
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Unlimited money but unable to open a savings account in my own name
Of the four fundamental interactions, gravitation is the dominant at astronomical length scales. Gravity effects are cumulative; by contrast, the effects of positive and…