Uganda

Question 1

what percentage of the population can read and write? (compared to what percentage of the UK)

Answer 1

78.2% (vs 96.4%)

Question 2

what three unequal flows does Uganda exemplify?

Answer 2

information, capital, products

Question 3

what number are they close to on the gini coefficient?

Answer 3

1

Question 4

what is their HIV rate?

Answer 4

5.2% (high)

Question 5

what sector do they specialise in and what is the name of the specific product?

Answer 5

primary, Nile Perch

Question 6

how many Ugandans are directly employed by the fishing industry?

Answer 6

1 million

Question 7

how does a decrease in demand for nile perch impact on the workers?

Answer 7

it causes them to migrate out of the area through a ‘brain drain’

(BUT creates remittances)

Question 8

how did they try to combat the unsustainable nature of the nile perch? why was it negative?

Answer 8

introduced alternative fish species but they were invasive and depleted the eggs of other species, this then destroyed the food web

Question 9

what is Uganda’s primary industry known as?

Answer 9

monoculture

Question 10

why is Uganda stuck in the periphery of the core periphery model?

Answer 10

due to unequal flows causing global inequality

Question 11

what model does Uganda relate to and why?

Answer 11

core-periphery model: stuck in periphery

Question 12

why is their industry an issue?

Answer 12

• no diversification
• dictated by tastes of the west
• exacerbates debt
• high rates of migration out of Uganda

Question 13

what percentage of the population lives below poverty line (less than $1.25 per day)?

Answer 13

21%

Question 14

what is the net migration rate?

Answer 14

-0.7% (more people leaving than arriving)