Ovago Vile Vile

Ow’embaliga

Rope Bridge

Economy based on

• Investments in modernization of key infrastructure
• Export of primary products and semi-processed goods to regional and international markets
• Retail/low value economy in the rural areas

• Vertically integrated cash-crop production, extraction of mineral resources
• Informal trade and subsistence agriculture

• Export of agricultural products and light industry
• Informal economy in rural areas and in the informal settlements around the city

Political leadership style

• Open, conciliatory and accountable

• Dispensation of patronage within closed circles
• Power and accountability held within a small well-connected clique

• Autocratic and heavy-handed, not accountable
• Liberal use of patronage

Conflict

• International involvement and pressure to address security ‘problems’ in Uganda
• Establishment of structures and institutions to manage conflict

• Dispensation of patronage within closed circles
• Power and accountability held within a small well-connected clique

• War in the north tamed with support of international community
• Locus of conflict that between disenfranchised masses and the government

Politics of...

• Reconciliation and reconstruction

• Control and division. Mistrust abounds

• ‘I win, you lose’

Role of state in economy

• Facilitates and regulates
• Invests in infrastructure development

• Instrumentalized. Broad commitment to liberalization. However, facilitates and obstructs depending on gains to be made.
• Targets investment in sectors where there are quick gains to be made

• Initially facilitative. Later on, as systems and structures collapse, it becomes much more arbitrary in the way it intervenes – often in the interests of a select clique