This recent World Bank study would seem to suggest the type of structural change you observe in other African countries does not apply to Uganda: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5403055/Inclusive%20growth-Feb%252011.pdf Overall, poor within sector productivity growth has been compensated for by 'good' intersectoral shifts. On closer examination (table 7) however, this is driven by construction and real estate - sectors which have high levels of productivity but have recently experienced negative productivity growth, raising the question of how sustainable the reliance on such structural change can be.