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Daily Monitor
Monday May 10 2021
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Ms Regina Navuga, the in-charge for Financing for Development Programme at Southern and Eastern Africa Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI-Uganda), in a separate interview, said Uganda is not the only country facing fiscal deficit.
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Uganda is unable to exclusively finance its ambitious infrastructure projects from domestic revenues due to a narrow tax base.
Officials said the tax revenues are lower than 16 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the average for African countries.
Part of the problem, according to experts, is the government’s failure to effectively tax and collect revenues from the informal sector that roughly accounts for half of Uganda’s economy.
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Tomorrow we will adopt the Recovery and Sustainability Plan and send it to the European Commission, stated Boyko Borissov during a meeting with the reps of tourism industry, streamlined on his personal Facebook profile. The outgoing prime minister reminded that he expected his political opponents to propose other plans, but that did not happen. The plan is not a Bible. It can then be corrected, it can be rewritten - these are flexible documents and they are subject to daily negotiationswith the European Commission , Borissov said.
On April 9, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev announced that he would not submit the National Plan for Recovery and Sustainability for adoption by the government but would let the next Council of Ministers do it. He said that during a roundtable on the future of the country, organized by the coalition For Green Restart.
By Hans van Scharen
There are “strong links between politics and the biggest beneficiaries of the subsidies” in five Central and East European member states of the EU. That’s according to a new in-depth study “Where does the money go”, which examines the implementation of the EU agriculture funds in Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic. The study, which was commissioned by the Greens/EFA political group in the European Parliament, sheds a stark light on how the CAP is not only funding degradation of biodiversity but also degrading democracy. Hans van Scharen reports.
‘Green collar crime’ in the EU
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 28 2021
Salt miners sit beside their products, the salt rocks, as they wait for clients near Lake Katwe in Kasese District in 2017.
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The miners face eviction from the salt lake after the Energy ministry issued an exploration licence to Rwenzori Shining Star Ltd.
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Rajabu Juma, 76, is a resident of Katwe-Kabatoro Town Council in Kasese District, where he has lived all his life extracting salt from the salty Lake Katwe, adjacent to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
He owns 20 salt pans on the shores of Lake Katwe, where he earns a living and the business supports his family and dependents.