Lagarde is visiting when the government is desperate for new money but in no mood to listen. Usually that means no deal but possibly not when the IMF and Museveni need each other.
Meetings between teams from IMF and planners of Uganda's economy, especially President Yoweri Museveni, have historically involved divergent perspectives but common goals. Part of the reason is that they usually happen when the economy is undergoing tough strain imposed on it by a preceding election. It happened in 1990 when then-IMF boss Michel Camdessus visited, in 2007 when then Deputy Managing Director, Takatoshi Kato, and now when current IMF boss, Christine Lagarde, is visiting.
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