Beyond the Build: The Business Leaders’ Approach to Turning Software Delivery into Business Value
Most executives and C-Suite leaders do not lose sleep because software is “badly written.” They lose sleep because software becomes a business […]
Kenya’s Climate Finance Moment: Turning New Regulations into Bankable Deals
As a critical enabler of the global response to climate change, climate finance is constrained less by ambition and more by execution. […]
The Role of Capital Markets in Fueling Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Growth
Capital markets are playing an increasingly central role in Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth by channelling long-term capital into infrastructure, business expansion, and […]
Transformative Strategies to Enable Access to Finance for Youth and Women in Africa
Africa’s GDP continues to rise with the involvement of 52.4% of women in the workforce according to the International Labour Organisation (2020) […]
Unpacking Key Learnings from Rwanda’s Financial Services’ FinScope 2024
The FinScope is a national survey that provides a comprehensive picture of how Rwandans access and use financial services Rwanda is right […]
Causes and Implications of International Labour Migration for African Economies
Labour migration in Africa has become an increasingly important policy concern within the current geo-political environment. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines […]
Dynamics of Uganda’s Current Bond Market
Uganda’s bond market has quietly transformed over the past three years, reshaping investor sentiment, fiscal policy, and economic resilience. This evolution reflects […]
Digital Transformation in Africa: Embracing a Future of Innovation and Efficiency
Africa stands on the precipice of a digital revolution. Across the continent, digital transformation is reshaping industries, governments, and communities. As the […]
Unpacking the implications of the interest rate cap on Tier IV financial institutions in Uganda
The recent introduction of an interest rate cap of 2.8% per month or 33.6% per year, for Tier IV Microfinance Institutions and Money Lenders in Uganda, has sparked considerable debate and discussion among various stakeholders in the financial sector.
Prefeasibility study approaches for public infrastructure projects
ASIGMA conducted a World Bank-funded prefeasibility study for public infrastructure, using strategic, multi-criteria, and cost-benefit analyses. The study prioritized viable projects with an economic IRR of 22.94%, ensuring efficient use of limited resources while highlighting the economic benefits of infrastructure investment in Uganda’s GKMA region.
Opportunities in Uganda’s mining sector
Overview As Uganda targets to achieve upper middle-income status by 2040, non-fuel minerals have been identified as strategically important in key strategy […]
Key insights from the 2023 financial services’ FinScope study
The 2023 FinScope survey was a demand-side study of access, uptake, usage and perceptions of financial services in Uganda. The main objectives […]