Uganda is known as an Entrepreneurial Country with various Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports affirming that. It is very likely that 7 out of every 10 Ugandan employees do run a private business on the side. This could be driven by the low job security, lack of social security entitlements or the desire to earn more money and be more independent as opposed to maintaining income. However, most of these ‘businesses’ are hardly formal and as a result operate below the radar. Initially this may be tolerated for the sake of testing the market but as they grow beyond certain boundaries, the need to formalise sets in. I share more insights in this Article.
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The Need to Formalise that Small Business of Yours
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COMESA or EU. Which Market for Uganda’s Agricultural Products?
With many local producers, processors and aggregators in the Agricultural value chain focusing on exporting their products to the European markets even amidst the various hurdles that are clearly designed to only encourage us to export raw materials as opposed to processed products, its time to rethink our approach. The COMESA region for starters could offer more than enough market for the average company in Uganda today. Find out more in this article.
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The Wire Perspective 