African Renaissance Fellowship

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39234858121425933802011-11-27T15:32:42.406-08:00African Renaissance FellowshipDick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-68790045241145121872010-04-19T08:39:00.000-07:002010-04-19T08:43:03.123-07:00scholarship in Africa

http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/globalresearchreport-africa.pdf

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-27800091525653169982010-04-11T04:59:00.001-07:002010-04-11T05:02:21.688-07:00That China`s Invasion is Good for Africa

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-75076282124956893662010-03-30T02:55:00.000-07:002010-03-30T02:56:59.061-07:00Conflict & Development

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4794

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-80943700754375055102010-03-24T11:15:00.000-07:002010-03-24T11:19:23.165-07:00Can Africans Learn from History?

I believe Africa has suffered at least three tragic forces in its development history.First, the 7th to 19th Century slave trade, the trans-Saharan, Indian & Atlantic Ocean slave trades, together robbed the continent close to 50million souls, depleting a pool of its economically active human resource consequently arresting African development possibilities. Second, the 19th to 20th century

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-51884291570284694502010-03-11T01:11:00.000-08:002010-03-11T01:14:54.437-08:00Here we go again...resource curse

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-71669432048292921832010-02-09T13:28:00.001-08:002010-02-09T13:28:26.564-08:00http://codesria.org/Small_Grants_2010.pdf

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-74774787359631299022010-02-09T13:16:00.000-08:002010-02-09T13:23:55.480-08:00South-South Annual Research Grants for 2010

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-2198791210200160172009-08-01T08:18:00.000-07:002009-08-01T08:45:16.502-07:00Why Interstate Disputes Should Not Delay the Modernisation of the Great Lakes Region.

The last two decades marked a significant number of interstate conflicts in the great lakes region including complex liberation wars of Rwanda, DRC, and crush of allied forces (Uganda & Rwandan troops) on a foreign territory in Eastern Congo in 1999 & the current stalemate over Migingo Island between Kenya-Uganda. The Migingo Island dispute recently raised the prospects of war between Kenya &

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-14790836954696088782009-02-11T07:01:00.000-08:002009-02-11T07:08:41.152-08:00Can Africa Unite under Col. Gaddafi?

One of the greatest optimists of all times JFK, 46 years ago speaking on World Peace at American University, said “….let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many of us think it is unreal. But that is dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable--- that mankind is doomed--- that we are gripped by forces we cannot

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-20808065969838605732009-01-12T08:32:00.000-08:002009-01-12T08:35:51.646-08:00Is There A Case For Government Action To Stabilize Energy Prices?

Yes. There are 4 possible channels through which retail fuel prices can unnecessarily be so high in the country: First, through market forces of demand and supply, as the Ugandan economy has grown at an average rate of 6 percent per annum for the last two decades could lead to increased demand for more fuel/energy and if unmatched by increased supply would result in high prices at the pump.

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-42358243150146801132008-11-30T11:48:00.000-08:002008-11-30T12:13:33.681-08:00What should an ordinary African expect from President Obama come Jan 20th, 2009?

Not much in his first term at least! The last 26 days can give a clue on what he is likely to focus on as his priorities. Jumpstarting the American economy, restoring its dynamism as the most competitive economy in the world and central to this will be averting the shrinking industrial jobs and creating new ones, funding for innovative technologies, managing the federal budget deficit, tax cuts

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-61195044288447123922008-10-31T11:49:00.000-07:002008-10-31T11:58:11.526-07:00Will the Global Financial Crisis hit Ordinary Ugandans?

Recently, a financial crisis has sent shock waves across the globe especially amongst the rich world from the United States to United Kingdom and the rest of Continental Europe. The nature of the crisis is extremely incomprehensible even to the experts. It begun with the busting of the housing bubble in the U.S. that led to large losses for assets backed mortgage payments. The resulting losses

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-57903071010258788922008-10-15T10:01:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:22:50.291-07:00Economic growth is more than cash in people`s Pockets!!

I read with interest Dr. Augustus Nuwagaba’s opinion titled “Why Economic Growth Is Not Felt In People’s Pockets” which was published in the New Vision of September 15. Nuwagaba gave an inaccurate analysis. First, he wrongly characterises economic growth as construction of roads, buildings, airports, and other public facilities! What he characterises as economic growth is physical infrastructure

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-70022119231485704952008-09-09T06:16:00.000-07:002008-09-09T07:52:45.446-07:00Trade Power and Geopolitics Undermining the WTO?

In the last 60 years the United States has dominated the world scene. It has dominated commerce, pushed nations to open their markets, championed liberal democracy and achieved military supremacy over other nations. It helped craft the international system, for instance, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The U.S. has led industrial innovation, world industrial output (its

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-67453226502640067172008-07-28T13:45:00.000-07:002008-07-28T14:24:11.367-07:00Bananas could Derail the Doha Round

The news that EU reached a deal with the Latin American Countries (largely Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua Bolivia and Panama) on bananas has sparked anger from the African Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP). These countries (ACP) have long enjoyed preferences in the EU as one of their most important markets. Today, 28/07/2008 as the DDA mini-ministerial negotiations in Geneva

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-55725322309362544002008-07-24T09:17:00.000-07:002008-07-24T12:46:01.624-07:00The Multilateral Trading System Sails through Rough Waters in Geneva!!

Prof. Richard Baldwin at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva recently warned that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is facing a threat of being irrelevant to the world trading nations if it "does not adopt to its challenges"! Like other international institutions namely the U.N.(and its largely ineffective Security Council) the IMF and the World Bank, it seems the bug of

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-38413148202136738762008-07-23T23:09:00.000-07:002008-07-24T02:25:36.883-07:00India`s Government Survives, DDA holding on a Thread!

The Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Mr. Kamal Nath, jetted in this morning from the Indian Parliament with a confidence vote in his government and assured the Developed Countries`members of the WTO that "I am obviously not here to hand around freebies without getting something in return"! India is seen as crucial for the ministers to get a deal in this ministerial meeting and everybody

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-76768036279851473442008-07-22T12:54:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:51:42.680-07:00Trade Briefing: WTO`s DDA Mini-Ministerial Negotiations 21-26 July 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland

Starting Monday 21st July 2008 over 40 world trade ministers from major protoganist countries in the DDA gathered in Geneva Switzerland to salvage the Doha Development Agenda launched 7years ago in the Qatar capital Doha. Throughout this week, ministers will struggle to find consensus on the modalities (formulas and othe mechanisms) on how to liberalise trade in the two basic "pillars" of the

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-23336656923835366742008-07-22T09:19:00.000-07:002008-07-23T10:08:29.291-07:00African Countries Draw thier Red Lines in the DDA Mini-Ministerial Meeting in Geneva today!

African ministers participating in the furore to salvage the Doha Round in Geneva, have drawn their red lines! Led by two deputy prime ministers (Honourable Uhuru Kenyatta Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade of Kenya and Mr. Ramkrishna Sithanen, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Mauritius) has declared in a joint statement that there will not support

Dick Nuwamanya Kamugangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01636462569735327837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923485812142593380.post-51555520865064517752008-05-01T11:57:00.000-07:002008-05-01T12:06:41.632-07:00Could the surge in commodity prices be a panacea for Africa?

Farming in Africa has always been a risky business, often at the mercy of bad weather, drought, low productivity, bad politics and non-remunerative fluctuating farm product prices. Consequently, Africa has long been confined to exporting primary commodities which faced volatile prices and unfavourable terms of trade. However, the recent surge in commodity prices could be changing the face of

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