ABSTRACT
This article examines the extent to which the country's structural changes implemented since 1986 are helping to reduce corruption and thereby alleviate poverty and generate economic growth. The examination will involve an analysis of key elements in Uganda's turbulent history since independence, a mapping of the political, economic and social inheritance of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), an examination of the NRM's proposed reform programme and the initiatives actually implemented in support of democratisation. The critique will consider whether the resultant changes are reducing corruption, merely shifting where it impacts or are actually creating new opportunities for corruption to flourish.
