uganda

A genius born in Uganda has much lower potential than an idiot born on the Upper East Side.

Kenya is not even the worst of all three, Uganda is really a disaster in terms of connectivity.

Indians in Uganda controlled something like a quarter of the economy while being only 1% of the population.

In Uganda it's even difficult to get actual phone signal in most of the country.

We work in Uganda without problem doing wire transfers for funds in/out.

You can also ask your embassy in Uganda for a financial report telling them you need information on the local banking and money transfer systems.

There is nothing particularly problematic about this for Uganda unlike some countries we work on.

Various traders in Uganda buy vouchers from you then resell them p2p so the money never leaves your bank account while changing hands all over Africa.

There's no real market in Uganda for bitcoin right now.

Suggesting that people living in a mud hut in Uganda can realistically reach a better standard of life simply through working, displays an astonishingly blinkered view of the world.

A 2013 study in Uganda found that people who received cash enjoyed a 49 percent earnings boost after two years, and a 41 percent increase after four years, compared to people who hadn't gotten a transfer.

I also think that an editor of a newspaper in Kenya and Uganda should do a cartoon where a villager uses his GiveDirectly money to buy a better roof, and then the company takes the money back and accuses the villager of fraud.

In Uganda, not only were the cash recipients better off, but their number of hours worked and labor productivity actually increased." But for smaller amounts (like the U$ 100 proposed), "One program gave $200 to at-risk Liberian men who were either homeless or who made their income from dealing drugs or stealing.

From the studies: "In these studies, men who had been randomly assigned to the circumcision group had a 60% (South Africa), 53% (Kenya), and 51% (Uganda) lower incidence of HIV infection compared with men assigned to the wait-list group to be circumcised at the end of the study.

Their habitat ranges from Guinea on the west coast to Uganda, and the bahavior is observed in chimp communities that have no contact with each other.

This means that already, if you'd have approached Bitpesa in the past months from Uganda, that it's likely quite easy to have procured bitcoin from them as Kenya-Uganda money transfer isn't the hardest thing in the world.

We are currently building applications for our shops in Africa (Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda) at my current company.