Roads versus the coffee sector; two tales of Uganda's economic devt story
Uganda, Feb. 29 -- In 1986, Uganda had roughly 1,900km of paved roads. In 2024, 40 years later, Uganda counted some 20,000km of paved roads, a 10-fold achievement.
The road maintenance backlog in Kampala, the capital, is 2,100km of paved roads. In 1986, Uganda exported coffee worth $400 million (worth $1.126 billion in today's dollars).
Even though the economy generally had collapsed, the machinery of government was still running. Inflation was sky-high and Uganda was navigating through instability and a long spell of famine in 1984 and 1985.
In 2022/2023, Uganda recorded $918 million worth of coffee exports, a 10 percent drop from the 1986 high.
Rolling out a national roads network has been a major narrative of Uganda's economic stra...
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