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Impacts of Debt Cancellation on Uganda
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What benefits?
• Spending on Public Services has risen by 20%
• 40% extra on Education• 70% increase in Healthcare• Abolition of fees on basic health care• Free Primary Schooling• Enrolment rate increased from 62% to
93% for girls and 94% for boys• Girls and boys numbers almost even
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• 2.2 million people (10%) have gained access to clean water
• Fetching clean water was often women's and girls work one of the reasons they did not go to school
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Significance of Educating Girls
• Education is the path to independence and greater prosperity
• Primary schooling ratio is 1:1• By age 11 it is 1:2• By 16 upto as high as 1:10• Girls marry as young as 13 or 14 and have
children shortly after• Ugandan fertility is 6.8• Women are the poorest Ugandans• Work as landless labourers
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• Have little control of their earnings• Return to work after giving birth Maternal
mortality is high• Unhealthy mothers have babies more
likely to die in their first five years
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Education In Uganda
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• Investment in education for girls can have a large impact
• Often defer marriage• Fertility rates therefore fall among
professional women• Educated women are more likely to select
a career, work in that career before marriage and children
• Infant mortality rates amongst Ugandan women are almost as low as in many developed countries
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Ugandan Economy in focus
• The Ugandan economy grew an impressive 7 per cent in 2008
• Growth has been led by the service and industrial sectors, while agriculture has stagnated
• The global downturn threatens the Ugandan financial system, dampens demand for exports and reduces remittances from abroad
• As a consequence of these shocks, growth is expected to slow to 5.6 per cent in 2009 before recovering to 6.1 per cent in 2010
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• High fuel and food prices pushed inflation up to an estimated 12 per cent in 2008
• The government is pressing ahead with a five year National Development Plan (NDP) focusing on infrastructure and agricultural development
• in a bid to increase exports and remove constraints to further growth
• Uganda continues to be a leader in social progress in Africa with poverty reduction and improvements in health and education
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Growth in GDP