Uganda: Experts - Why Selling Off UCB, UEB Was Wrong

6 December 2017
opinion

Free markets have not brought industrialisation and economic success to Uganda. Can the country's pilots acknowledge they got it wrong and search for a different path, writes ALON MWESIGWA.

"If you're a free markets advocate and driving a Toyota, you don't know what you are talking about," this was the opening remark by University of Cambridge academic Dr Ha-Joon Chang at last week's 25th Joseph Mubiru memorial lecture hosted by Bank of Uganda.

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