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Role of foreign direct investment in economic growth, a case of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-04)
In a decade or two, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have been sought by most, if not all, developing countries as a means of complementing the level of domestic investment, as well as securing economy-wide efficiency gains ...
Re-examining the effects of trade openness on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)
This study uses the newly developed nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) framework approach to examine the effects of trade openness on economic growth in Uganda covering the period from 1990 to 2019. The study ...
Effect of trade openness on the economic growth of the East African Community countries: evidence from dynamic Panel ARDL analysis
(Makerere University, 2023-01)
Trade openness plays an immense role in the economic growth process of countries. In East African Community, there is scanty evidence on the role of trade openness in the economic growth process of these countries. This ...
Government expenditure and economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)
This study investigates the effect of Government expenditure (disaggregated into capital and recurrent) on economic growth in Uganda using secondary data time series for the period 1985-2020. The data was obtained from ...
The effect of coffee exports on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-09)
The study investigates the effect of coffee exports on economic growth in Uganda. The study employed time series data for the period 1987-2021 with Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) using data from Uganda Coffee ...
The effect of private credit on economic growth: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
(Makerere University, 2024-10)
Private credit is emphatically infused with potential for the economic growth process of a particular country, yet literature on the effect of private credit on economic growth in the case of Sub-Saharan Africa is presented ...
The effect of taxation on economic growth in Kenya (1993-2023)
(Makerere University, 2024-10)
The major aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of taxation on economic growth in Kenya specifically the impact of income tax, import duty tax, VAT and excise duty on GDP of Kenya from 1993-2023. The data used in ...
The effect of government debt on Uganda’s economic growth during the period 1990 – 2021
(Makerere University, 2024-04)
The study examined the relationship between government debt and economic growth in Uganda over the period 1990-2021. The present study empirically examined the short run and long run effects of government debt on economic ...
The causal relationship between exports and economic growth in Uganda (1960-2009)
(Makerere University, 2017)
The study investigates the dynamic relationship between export and economic growth of Uganda for the period 1960-2009. The objectives of study were to investigate the direction of causality, the feedback effect, forecasting ...
The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in Kenya (1980-2022)
(Makerere University, 2024-11)
This major aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth in Kenya from 1980 to 2022, using an endogenous growth model. The study employs an Autoregressive Distributed Lag ...