Ugandan governor rejects president’s growth target

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Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, the Bank of Uganda governor, believes there is no chance of Uganda becoming a middle-income country by the government's stated target of 2017.

Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, has repeatedly talked of making Uganda a middle-income country by 2017, and a first world country by 2050, since commencing his fourth term in 2011.

The World Bank's definition of middle-income requires a country to achieve a gross national income (GNI) per capita of at least $1,036. In

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