Unemployment in Kampala and Jinja, Uganda

Abstract

In order to place Uganda's employment in perspective, it is necessary to look briefly at the general development of unemployment. The growth of employment in Uganda goes back to the introduction of a cash economy into a country of small subsistence cultivators. Subsequently there developed a changing balance of cash-earning opportunities between the sale of cash crops and the sale of labour, and it is the nature of this balance between cash crops and labour which underlies both the unemployment problem in the 1960's and any hope of its solution.