TITLE:
Industrialisation as a Vehicle for Uganda to Achieve a 1st World Economy by 2040: A Review of Uganda’s Industrialisation Efforts
AUTHORS:
Abraham J. B. Muwanguzi, Patrick Olowo, Asuman Guloba, Joseph Muvawala
KEYWORDS:
Industrialisation, Uganda Vision 2040, Manufacturing, GDP, Economic Development
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.3,
March
14,
2018
ABSTRACT: Uganda aspires to
become “a transformed society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country
within 30 years”. This aspiration and the targeted steps to be taken to achieve
it are laid down in a document titled Uganda Vision 2040. Industrialisation is
considered to be one of the avenues to use to achieve this Vision, despite the
fact that the country has made a number of efforts to promote industrialisation
in the past, which have not yielded positive results. Reviewed here are the
efforts that have been made to this regard since its independence and short
falls highlighted. These efforts are compared with the East Asian countries’
efforts towards industrialisation to note what policy makers and investors can do better in order to have industrialisation
work for a country like Uganda. The comparison is based on the fact that these
countries were at almost the same economic level of development in the 1960s
and therefore there is a need to learn lessons of what was done differently.
The country needs to develop a stepwise approach to industrialisation that can
guide all efforts towards a common agenda.