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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 02:00
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Development [2]
Issue Number: 
247 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Uganda, like other sub-saharan African countries, still faces the challenge of keeping the inflation rate below 10% and holding the shilling at bay against the dollar at the expense of poor medical care, substandard education, poor road network, rampant unemployment and having millions of the population still living on one dollar a day. Participants at the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) roundtable meeting on debt relief and the challenges of increased aid in Lusaka, Zambia over the weeke...read more [4]

Uganda, like other sub-saharan African countries, still faces the challenge of keeping the inflation rate below 10% and holding the shilling at bay against the dollar at the expense of poor medical care, substandard education, poor road network, rampant unemployment and having millions of the population still living on one dollar a day. Participants at the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) roundtable meeting on debt relief and the challenges of increased aid in Lusaka, Zambia over the weekend agreed that there was need for increased debt relief instead of increased aid inflows.

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Global South [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/development/32836 [6]

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