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IMF pledges $240m to spur Uganda’s public sector reforms

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December 23, 2022
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has offered a $240 million three-year loan to Uganda to support a radical public sector reform.

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The agenda is anchored on fighting corruption, cutting financial waste and promoting financial inclusion while sending positive signals to international creditors and credit rating agencies about the country’s debt burden.

The loan offer comes in the wake of a staff-level agreement reached between the Fund and the Uganda government over a new public sector reform plan that covers 11 broad areas.

Disbursement of the loan is subject to IMF Executive Board’s approval that is expected in two weeks’ time, according to IMF sources. The new funding package represents a slight shift from previous IMF loans acquired by Uganda since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.

Whereas the latter were procured for direct budget support required for the settlement of government’s operating expenses, Covid-19 healthcare-related costs and provision of financial stimulus packages for the most affected sectors, the former is targeted towards public sector administrative reforms.

Uganda received a $471 million loan from the IMF in late 2020 and another $1 billion loan in 2021 for budget support purposes.

Increased IMF support to Uganda is apparently driven by prolonged economic shocks triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures.

“Uganda’s economy has been growing below its full potential over the past three years.

“We are looking at previous growth rates of 3.8 percent, 4.8 percent and 5.3 percent and this limits our ability to collect tax revenues. The Russia-Ukraine war has certainly complicated matters and this means getting additional IMF support is inevitable at this time,” said Mr Michael Atingi-Ego, the deputy governor of Bank of Uganda.

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