EDITORIAL: Budgets heavy on stimulus, light on farming

Finance Ministers Philip Mpango (left), Tanzania, Matia Kasaija (centre), Uganda, Claver Gatete (right), Rwanda on budget day. PHOTO FILE | NATION

With the exception of Burundi, for both investors and ordinary citizens, the presentation of budgets by Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania removed any lingering uncertainty over where economic policy in the region is headed.

There is no word from Burundi, which of late has been at best a reluctant member of the regional brotherhood.