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Uganda: Contradictions of the IMF Programme and Perspective

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This critique of the Structural Adjustment Programme in Uganda is argued at three levels. A discussion of the immediate consequences of SAP is based on empirical data on economic performance compiled by the Government of Uganda, IMF and World Bank. Second, information for a longer‐term historical analysis is culled from the author's own research. Its purpose is to raise more fundamental issues of social transformation. Finally, these perspectives are reinforced through a comparative discussion using South East Asian development experience. The author argues that there are diverse paths to capitalist development, with diverse and contradictory social and political consequences. The real issue in contemporary Uganda is not one of the state or the market, but of the transformation of relations internal to both from the point of view of democratization.

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  • Mahmood Mamdani, 1990. "Uganda: Contradictions of the IMF Programme and Perspective," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 21(3), pages 427-467, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:21:y:1990:i:3:p:427-467
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1990.tb00383.x
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