This book provides a critical appraisal of budget support in Uganda since 1998- 2018, highlighting the socio political economy factors for the
rise and fall of budget support. It explains why in the past years, support for GBS has diminished significantly among major bilateral donors.
While some bilateral donors reduced their GBS operations, others (formerly dedicated supporters and providers of GBS) fully abandoned the
modality and ended the provision of GBS in Uganda. It explains why this is the case. In spite of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
(2005), the experience with general budget support (GBS) over the last decade clearly shows that the principal–agent problems between
donors and recipients of aid, whose preferences over how to use aid resources and achieve development objectives typically diverge, have
not gone away.