Economic Development Research Project, Makerere University College, Kampala

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-283
Author(s):  
Paul G. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
University College

This Project was initiated two years ago with three main objectives: (i) fundamentally, to carry out a coherent set of applied research studies of important economic development problems of the East African countries; (ii) to contribute East African readings and research experience to university teaching of economics; and (iii) to assist the East African Governments in using economic research for development planning. Organisationally, the Project is simply a group of economists working on related topics under the leadership of the director, Professor P. G. Clark. The group forms the economics section of the East African Institute of Social Research (which has similar sections for sociology and anthropology and for political science); the Institute in turn is the social sciences research department of Makerere University College. The four-year project is now in mid-course, and it can be fairly said that at least some progress has been made toward all three objectives.

Conference on Economic Research in Africa

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Robert L. West
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
East African ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
University College ◽  
National University

This conference, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, was attended by the research directors of the following centres: Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (I.R.E.S.), Lovanium University, Congo; Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (N.I.S.E.R.), University of Ibadan; U.N. African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (I.D.E.P.), Dakar, Senegal; Economic Development Institute (E.D.I.), University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Institut de rcience économique appliquée (I.S.E.A.), Dakar; Department of Economics, University of Khartoum, Sudan; proposed Bureau of Economic Research, the University College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; East African Institute of Social Research (E.A.I.S.R.), Makerere University College, Uganda; and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Lusaka, Zambia. In addition, there were the director of the Economic Development Division of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (E.C.A.), Addis Ababa; the head of the Training Division of the O.E.C.D. Development Centre, Paris; a member of the Institute of Economic Research of the National University of Chile, Santiago; and two representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York.

scholarly journals Reimagining China’s Transportation Funding Investments in Africa in the Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110312
Author(s):  
Clovia Hamilton ◽  
Sira Maliphol
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Transportation Funding ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Functional Areas

Africa has not invested enough in its healthcare system, and China has been investing in and financing much of Africa’s transportation system. Many African countries’ fragile health and transportation systems have been further weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. This literature review confirms the interdependence of the key functional areas of comprehensive development planning and the importance of building and maintaining a sound transportation infrastructure. With respect to partnerships with China, African nations need to strengthen government functional areas more comprehensively, considering all of the areas of development planning including trade as well as transportation and aid issues. It is all the more apparent given the COVID-19 pandemic that these trade deals need to include simultaneous heavy investments in healthcare, education, housing, public utilities (water and electricity), and economic development through improved supply chain management and the use of advanced digital technology. In addition to the deal structures for China’s investments in Africa’s transportation infrastructure, there are also opportunities to reimagine the African nations’ internal transportation spending. For example, there are models in the United States for using transportation funds to invest in health clinics in transit stations. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought this issue to bear, and it is a problem that can be rectified with “comprehensive” development planning that takes into account all of the key functional areas of planning: healthcare, environmental protection, safety, education, housing, economic development, and transportation. Five recommendations follow the literature review and discussion.

Erieza Kintu's Sulutani Anatoloka: A Nineteenth-Century Historical Memoir From Buganda

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
John A. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Social Research ◽  
New Order ◽  
Private Land ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

An 85-year-old villager named Erieza Kintu died at Kabubu in the county of Bulemezi, kingdom of Buganda, sometime in 1965. His passing was virtually unnoticed, except by relatives and a few neighbors. Through my research trips between 1962 and 1964 had on several occasions brought me to within a few miles of his house, I never met Kintu. Yet he is one of my best sources for the history of Buganda in the 1890s. Indeed, his memory of the so called “rebellion” by Kabaka Mwanga against the British in 1897 is the single best source I know, particularly valuable as an “insider” eyewitness participant. Even more importantly, unlike the earlier “official” histories of Mwanga's uprising, Kintu's view is from the point of the losers in the conflict—those who had resisted the new order of Christianity, private land tenure, and protectorate status within the British empire.As so often happens with the vanquished, their history was suppressed by the victors, who—through the control of schooling and the printing press— ensured that only their own version of the conflict would become history. Yet somehow, at the age of almost seventy years the non-literate Erieza Kintu managed to dictate his oral memoirs to the manager of the Baganda Cooperative Society Press, and the result was Sulutani Anatoloka, a printed pamphlet that went on sale in Kampala priced one shilling a copy. After a few days no doubt the small edition was sold out and disappeared from view. Fortunately, one copy wound up in the hands of a prominent anthropologist from the University of Chicago, Lloyd Fallers, who was director of the East African Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in the early 1950s. Years later, when Fallers returned to Chicago, he brought back the pamphlet and offered me a photocopy, which I translated from Luganda into English in 1964. At that time I knew nothing about the author, except what was printed in his memoir covering the years from 1892 to 1899, nor did I know the circumstances surrounding the publication, or even the date when it had been printed. So here was a mysterious, unique, and potentially invaluable historical source—if only one could investigate its provenance.

scholarly journals Economic development and trade outcomes in East African countries: prospects and constraints

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Romanus Osabohien ◽  
Oluwatoyin Matthew ◽  
Busayo Aderounmu ◽  
Abigail Godwin ◽  
Victoria Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries

East African Political Science Research Workshop

1968 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-568
Author(s):  
Paul F. Nursey-bray
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Research Workshop ◽  
The University

This workshop, sponsored by the University of East Africa and the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University College, with additional financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, was subdivided into two brief conferences. The underlying idea was that the more traditional disciplinary concerns of the political scientists of East Africa should form the basis for the first day, after which the workshop would broaden into an interdisciplinary experiment, with additional participants.

Conference on Africa in World Affairs: the next 30 years

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-298
Author(s):  
Hasu H. Patel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The World ◽  
University College ◽  
African Community

This conference was held at Makerere University College under the auspices of the World Order Models Project, in association with the World Law Fund. Those who presented papers came from Canada, Congo-Kinshasa, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, U.S.A., Zambia, the East African Community, and the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa. Distinguished visitors included Professor W. Abraham, the Ghanaian philosopher, and the noted African poet, Okor p'Bitek, who both came from the United States.

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