Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 12 2021
Okodan Akwap
Clearly, the Washington Consensus policies of the early 1990s, which prescribed for poor countries economic policies such as liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation, were never a blueprint for pulling the majority of Ugandans out of poverty. Many of our people are still stuck knee-deep in biting poverty.
The policies that supposedly would pull us out of the mud were never designed for us in the first place. They were agreed in Washington, DC by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US Treasury Department.
According to Prof Joseph Stiglitz, a former World Bank Chief Economist, the policies were agreed in response to Latin America’s economic problems of the 1980s. The major aim of those policies was to provide a formula for indebted Latin American countries to repay their debts.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday December 16 2020
Summary
Dr Okodan Akwap says: By expunging key clauses from the Constitution, NRM has destroyed a workable document.
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Some readers of this paper may have noticed that I have written several articles on the concept of groupthink. One more article on that concept and I risk sounding like a broken record. So, I repeat only one sentence: Groupthink involves many heads but only one group mind.
Now, I wish to highlight the implementation of groupthink at an advanced level and its destructive tendencies as seen in the case of decision-making in the National Resitance Movement (NRM) party.