ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT, AGRICULTURE AND THE LABOR MARKET IN UGANDA

Abstract

This paper investigates the scale of the economic crisis in Uganda and the impacts on agriculture, identifies the major labour market changes and explores selected policy measures to attack on rural-urban unemployment. Section II, starts from the scale of the crisis and the need to adjust the Ugandan economy to overcome the resurgence of unemployment. In Section III, the costs of adjustment and rural-urban migration are presented. Policy measures to attack rural-urban unemployment are presented in section IV.International Development, Labor and Human Capital,