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The determinants of Uganda’s coffee exports: 1980-2013
(Makerere University, 2018-06)
Uganda has continued to depend on primary commodities such as coffee, tea, banana, and others as its valuable exports despite price shocks in the world markets. This study therefore intend to empirically examine the ...
The impact of oil imports on economic growth: Evidence from Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-02-20)
Production processes for most goods and services of every country depend on energy with oil inclusive. However, for a country like Uganda with few alternative sources of energy, over dependency on oil imports is likely to ...
The Effect of Trade Openness on Economic Growth in case of Sub-Saharan Africa countries (SSA): A Panel Data Approach
(Makerere University, 2017-10)
The relationship between trade openness and economic growth has been extensively investigated yielding to mixed and inconclusive results. This paper examines the effect of trade openness on economic growth for Sub Saharan ...
The impact of tourism earnings on Kenya’s economic growth: 1995-2014
(Makerere University, 2017-11-22)
The Tourism Sector is second income earner in Kenya and provides employment to a large section of people along the tourism value-chain. However, the performance of the sector is prone to external and internal shocks such ...
Inflation and economic growth; An empirical analysis of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2017-11)
In this paper, an examination of the relationship between and economic growth in Uganda over the period of 1990-2015 by using time series data is performed. The study employed the vector error correction model (VECM) and ...
Relationship between macro economic indicators and economic performance in Uganda: 1970-2012
(Makerere University, 2015-10)
The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between macroeconomic indicators (imports, exports, FDI) and economic growth in Uganda from 1970 to 2012, using the Vector Auto Regression frame work (VAR) and ...
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Kenya
(Makerere University, 2018-11-19)
The study undertaken sought to explain the impact of aid on economic growth in Kenya. Cointegration analysis was employed to establish the existence of a long-run relationship between GDP, external loans, grants, technical ...
The Impact of External Debt on Uganda’s Economic Growth
(Makerere University, 2019-02-12)
This study examined the impact of external debt on Uganda‟s economic growth over the period 1987-2017 using the Autoregressive Distributed-lagged (ARDL) model estimation techniques after carrying out diagnostic tests on ...
The Effect of Corruption on Economic Growth in Uganda (2005-2016)
(Makerere University, 2018-01)
This paper investigates “The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in Uganda” as an academic oriented study. The main objective is to examine the extent to which corruption indicators influence the GDP growth position ...
Impact of Public Debt on Investment and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-12)
The study empirically analysed the impact of public debt on investment and economic growth in Uganda for a period of 1980-2016. Two decades ago, Uganda’s debt had peaked to unsustainable levels such that the economy did ...