Charles Abuka

Charles Abuka (1965) is an assistant director in the Research Department of the Bank of Uganda. He has been involved in conducting independent research under the auspices of the African Economic Research Consortium, the International Monetary Fund as well as for regional organisations and governments.

He has published on the COMESA experience on trade reform and regional integration. He has also served on the national negotiating committee on trade with the WTO.

In the Research Department of the Bank of Uganda, he has been involved in issues of macroeconomic monitoring, and financial and monetary policy formulation. He is currently involved in the study of the poverty effects and poverty vulnerability in the face of shocks in agricultural markets in Uganda as part of an investigation into policy coherence between global and EU agricultural trade reforms.