Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2024-07-06 16:03:29
Nearly every annual State of the Nation Address in recent years, President Yoweri Museveni repeats a now standard falsehood about Uganda’s economic miracle.
The signature statistic, which is a standard economic measure, the president likes to cite is the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the total estimated wealth, which includes all assets, goods and services by both nationals and foreigners but excludes those of citizens abroad.
At different times, Mr Museveni has suggested that Uganda’s GDP has expanded 13 times, 16 times or more than 20 times. In this year’s…
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