{"id":683,"date":"2012-10-29T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/challenges-to-overcome\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:59:41","slug":"challenges-to-overcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/challenges-to-overcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges to Overcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a strong economy, open markets and abundant resources Uganda provides a lot of opportunities for investors. Uganda has, however, to address the following challenges in order to make rank among the top investment destination countries:<\/p>\n

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  1. Poor infrastructure in areas of roads , airport, telecommunication and other support services<\/li>\n
  2. High cost of finance<\/li>\n
  3. High energy costs<\/li>\n
  4. The narrow tax base which increases the tax burden of the businesses operating in Uganda<\/li>\n
  5. High production costs caused by factors which can be addressed.<\/li>\n
  6. The extra cost of doing business as a result of the corruption in the country<\/li>\n
  7. The fast tracking of the legal and policy reforms in the various sectors.<\/li>\n
  8. Lack of skilled manpower despite the many unemployed graduates.<\/li>\n
  9. Lack of clear policies in some sectors<\/li>\n
  10. Capacity building to the rural farmers who are key to the economic growth of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With a strong economy, open markets and abundant resources Uganda provides a lot of opportunities for investors. Uganda has, however, to address the following challenges in order to make rank among the top investment destination countries: Poor infrastructure in areas of roads , airport, telecommunication and other support services High cost of finance High energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"With a strong economy, open markets and abundant resources Uganda provides a lot of opportunities for investors. Uganda has, however, to address the following challenges in order to make rank among the top investment destination countries: Poor infrastructure in areas of roads , airport, telecommunication and other support services High cost of finance High energy…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}