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Item Agriculture, construction boost economy.(New Vision, 2017-08-10) Sanya, SamuelThere is an improvement in private sector business operating conditions on the back of a recovery in agriculture and construction in Uganda. This is according to the Stanbic Back headline purchase managers index (PMI). The PMI is the measure of the economic health of sectors.Item Are tax incentives delivering jobs, economic growth?(New Vision, 2017-08-10) Sanya, SamuelPalm trees dot the hills of Ssese Islands where thick natural forests once thrived Oil Palm Uganda signed an agreement with the Government in 2002 to set up an oil palm project on the island, which pact gave the investor a 25-year tax holiday.Item Banks urged to adopt new technology or face collapse(New Vision, 2017-06-30) Sanya, SamuelAfter the recent collapse of Crane Bank, financial technology (fintech) experts have warned that banks should adapt to the changing lifestyles of Ugandans or face collapse.Item BOU maintains CBR at 10%(New Vision, 2017-08-14) Sanya, SamuelThe Bank of Uganda (BOU) has held the benchmark Central Bank Rate (CBR) at 10% as economic activity starts to pick up. The BOU governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile on Friday said the economy is set to grow faster at between 5% and 5.5% this financial years, as opposed to earlier estimates of 3.9%.Item Busongora reaping from coffee support(New Vision, 2018-02-26) Sanya, SamuelCoffee trees surround the mountainous village of Maliba in Kasese district where residents toil away under the hot sun to grow the coffee. Mwerya Bagonza, the village LC1 and coffee farmer, says they had struggled in vain to fetch better prices for their produce until the govt offered them a coffee huller machine two years ago.Item Cement prices set to fall(Saturday Vision, 2017-07-22) Sanya, SamuelWhen the factory(Simba cement) and a new clinker plant on Horoto are completed, we expect cement prices to reduce by shs10,000 to boost the construction industry and create jobs for U gandans.Item CFO Awards: A celebration of excellence(New Vision, 2017-11-02) Sanya, SamuelMoney, the Bible says, is the answer to everything.Item CMA appoints new board.(New Vision, 2017-11-16) Sanya, SamuelFinance minister Matia Kasaija has appointed a new board to oversee the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), according to a statement from the CMA.Item Coffee export up with electronic single window(New Vision, 2018-01-24) Sanya, SamuelUganda exported 443,100 bags of coffee valued at $49.39m (about shs179b) in November 2017, an improvement from 408,027 in November 2016. The improvement is due to national electronic single window, the Uganda coffee Development Authority's (UCDA) most recent report indicates.Item COMESA lauds Uganda on infrastructure growth.(New Vision, 2017-11-10) Sanya, SamuelUganda has been commended for prioritising infrastructure development, especially energy and the road network which is boosting regional trade. This was during the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) council of ministers meeting in Lusaka, Zambia on Saturday.Item Cooperatives hailed for job creation, receive machines(New Vision, 2017-08-28) Sanya, SamuelKACE is one of the 55 cooperatives around Uganda that received boiler machines to add value to their agricultural raw material from the trade ministry, under the one village one product programme.Item Elections rock bourse, dent turnover, investor confidence(New Vision, 2017-11-02) Sanya, SamuelThe value of shares traded on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) has slumped by 72% year on year to sh77b due to presidential elections in kenya, the USE chief executive officer, Paul Bwiso, has revealed.Item Government injects sh9.1b in two tea factories(New Vision, 2018-06-13) Sanya, SamuelGovernment through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), has constructed two tea factories worth sh91b in western Uganda as one of its interventions to promote value addition and export revenues.Item Industry, services and agriculture boost growth.(New Vision, 2018-06-13) Sanya, SamuelThe benchmark Central Bank Rate (CBR) has been held for four months with Uganda's economic growth set to leap to 5.8% in the current financial year 2017/2018 that ends in June.Item Mombasa, Dar rivalry to deliver gains to Uganda(New Vision, 2017-12-07) Sanya, SamuelTrucks line the old Mombasa road, causing a brief delay as residents flock the Nairobi terminus of the "Madaraka Express Train Service." Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) service to the coastal town of Mombasa.Item MTAC holds first graduation in Mbale.(New Vision, 2017-11-06) Sanya, SamuelThere were tears of joy and ululations when the Government-run Management, Training and Advisory Centre (MTAC) held its first graduation in the eastern town of Mbale. A total of 225 students from MTAC centres in Mbale and Pader,Item New app to fight youth unemployment(New Vision, 2017-12-11) Sanya, SamuelAs a young child, seeing journalists on television made Ruth Nyambe's heart skip a beatItem New UDC board to industrialise country.(New Vision, 2017-11-01) Sanya, SamuelThe Minister of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives, Amelia Kyambadde, has unveiled the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) board of directors, and challenged it to industrialise the country. The move comes nearly a year after a law re-constituting the board, was passed.Item Oil refinery company appoints manager(New Vision, 2017-01-12) Sanya, SamuelThe Uganda Refinery Holding Company (URHC) has appointed a British educated Ugandan, Dr Michael Nkambo Mugerwa as its general manager, bringing a near six-month search to a close.Item Oil sector to spur French investment in Uganda(New Vision, 2017-12-06) Sanya, SamuelA French business delegation made up of more than 45 executives representing over 30 French oil and gas companies has concluded a three-day visit to uganda.