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Editorial board

Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa); Morten Boas (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs); David Booth (Overseas Development Institute); Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin); Neil Carrier (University of Bristol); Fantu Cheru (Leiden University); Kevin Dunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Amanda Hammar (University of Copenhagen); Alcinda Honwana (Open University); Paul Jackson (University of Birmingham); Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick); Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College); Henning Melber ( Dag Hammarskjld Foundation); Garth A. Myers (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut); Lonce Ndikumana (UMass Amherst); Cyril Obi (Social Science Research Council); Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town); Mareike Schomerus (Overseas Development Institute); Laura Seay (Morehouse College); Howard Stein (University of Michigan); Mats Utas (Uppsala University); Alex de Waal (Tufts University)

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About the editors

Jrg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.

Giuliano Martiniello is Assistant Professor of Rural Community Development in the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut.

Elisa Greco is a Research Associate at the Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

Uganda

The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation

Edited by Jrg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco

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Contents

Jrg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco

Jon Harald Sande Lie

Ronald R. Atkinson

Adam Branch and Adrian Yen

Joshua B. Rubongoya

Kristof Titeca

Japhy Wilson

Godfrey B. Asiimwe

Malin J. Nystrand and Gordon Tamm

Sarah N. Ssali

Adrian Nel

Kristen Lyons

Laura Smith and James Van Alstine

Karin Wedig

Rose Nakayi

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Barbara Bompani

Julia Vorhlter

Ben Jones

David G. Pier

Jrg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco

Figures

Trend of Ugandas total external debt for the financial years 2000/012015/16

Uganda importexport trade

Context of neoliberal reforms in Ugandas healthcare

GoU health expenditure as percentage of total government expenditure

Per capita health expenditure (US$)

Health funding sources

Health financing by function

Percentage allocation of the PHC budget

Current healthcare expenditure by disease/condition

Health insurance financing by provider

Total household out of pocket expenditure by service

Average out of pocket household expenditure on health by quintiles

Average household expenditure by region

Tables

Transfers to local government

Total external debt

Government current health expenditure by recipients

Project distinctions and differentiation

Godfrey B. Asiimwe is an Associate Professor and Head, Department of Development Studies, Makerere University.

Ronald R. Atkinson is a Senior Research Associate at the Rule of Law Collaborative and the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, University of South Carolina.

Barbara Bompani is Reader in Africa and International Development, Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh and Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Adam Branch is University Lecturer in African Politics and the Director of the Cambridge Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Anneeth Kaur Hundle is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Ben Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia.

Jon Harald Sande Lie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Kristen Lyons is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Oakland Institute (US).

Rose Nakayi is a Senior Lecturer of Law at the School of Law, Makerere University.

Adrian Nel is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Geography in the School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, at the University of Kwazulu-Natal.

Malin J. Nystrand is a Post-Doc Researcher and Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

David G. Pier is an Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.