The prospects for Uganda I would like now to focus on the prospects for the Ugandan economy. In terms of real growth of output, Uganda has performed better than the average for sub Saharan Africa in the 2000s.
There are solid grounds for believing that the economy is well placed to weather the challenges posed by the global crisis and that strong real output growth rates can be maintained, although at slightly lower rates than in recent years, for the reasons I have already mentioned. We are currently forecasting real GDP growth of 6 percent in the 2009/10 fiscal year.