Uganda: Poor Research Performance Blamed On Limited Funding

17 September 2008

If science and technology are at the heart of the country's socio-economic growth, how come Uganda is not making much progress.

The Ugandan government together with other African governments made a commitment last year to increase the level of funding to research to at least 1 percent of the gross domestic product but the government has not made much progress towards fulfilling the promise.

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