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In addition to providing accessibility, policy dictates that it must positively contribute to the
economy. Yet despite the obviousness of the statement, fewRoads Agencies follow it up, because
their remit is to build and maintain roads only and so it is with UNRA.
Fimotions has used a method to test the adequacy of the Ugandan paved road network in
relation to the economy, the method is elaborated in the text box. For Uganda in 2016 the value
added to GDP of 1 km of new road per 1 million population was USD 6.1 in 2016. In 1992 the
global mean was 1.39, which at 2016 prices would be 2.3835. This means that the road network
is 250% smaller than it should be in relation to the size of its economy. This means that an
optimum length of the paved road network would be about 10,000 km.
Figure 23: Uganda Road Network
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