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When I started writing this column, a school mate asked me what it was about. My answer to him, then as now, was that it was about seeing ourselves through the lenses of social entropy as symbolized by the boda…
Continue readingThe ‘nsenene’ (grasshoppers) delicacy has never failed to light a controversy when in season. For one, while it is food for many, it is also one of the Baganda totems. The Nsenene clan is one of the original clans of…
Continue readingThe original statement, made by James Carville in 1992 was “The economy, stupid”. The phrase was directed at workers in Bill Clinton’s camp and intended as one of the messages for them to focus on in the campaign against incumbent…
Continue readingFor anybody who has an idea of what economics is about, they know that growth is not the same as development. Put simply, growth is about an increase (or decrease) in numbers or amounts or magnitudes (of economic goods and…
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