Kampala, Uganda — New data highlights gaps in health insurance, sanitation, and living standards despite progress in reducing income poverty. The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to ...

JINJA, Uganda — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world’s ...

In the town of Kamuli in eastern Uganda, Annabel Grossman meets women who have set up their own businesses – and explores how ...

LIRA, Uganda (AP) — The bicycle parked in Lucy Abalo’s compound doesn’t belong to her. Any one of the hundreds of people in her village can show up and ask to use it. A man might wish to take his ...

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

In the quiet village of Alelibanya in Kole District, Eunice Aceng spent three years living a life defined by pain, isolation, and stigma. "I had a disease called fistula. I leaked urine for three ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...