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Agricultural exports and economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05-10)
Agriculture is the backbone of the Uganda’s economy as it contributes 24 percent of the country’s GDP, employs over 72 percent of the population and accounts for 31 percent of Uganda’s exports. As such, the agricultural ...
A Stock market development and economic growth nexus in Uganda and Turkey, an ardl modelling approach
(Makerere University, 2022-09)
This study comparatively and empirically investigated the short-run and long-run relationship between stock market development and economic growth using time-series data from 2001 to 2020. The study was premised on three ...
Effect of gross savings on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05)
Savings are regarded as an engine of economic growth which contribute substantially to the development process of the economy. This study examined the effect of gross savings on economic growth in Uganda using annual time ...
Effect of financial innovations on economic growth in Eastern Africa: A panel data analysis
(Makerere University, 2022-04)
This study investigates the effect of financial innovations on economic growth in Eastern Africa using panel data obtained from World Development Indicators over the period 2004 to-2018. Panel Autoregressive Distributed ...
Effect of foreign direct investment volatility on economic growth in Uganda (1986-2016)
(Makerere University, 2022-04)
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) volatility
on economic growth in Uganda for the period 1986-2016. Quarterly data with 124 data points was
used for analysis. ...
Inflation and economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-04)
This study sets out to examine the relationship between economic growth and inflation in Uganda for the period 1980-2020. The existence and nature of a link between inflation and economic growth has been the subject of ...
The effect of young age dependency on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-03)
This study is motivated by the fact that Uganda has a high young age dependency ratio to the
working population of above 85 %, which has to be matched by high savings and investment
in the economy. However, Uganda’s ...
The relationship between non-traditional agricultural exports and Uganda's Economic Growth
(Makerere University, 2022-05-06)
The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between Nontraditional Agricultural Exports (NTAEs) for the period 1994-2019, using the Vector Auto Regression framework (VAR) and the Granger (1969) approach. ...
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 ...
The impact of taxation on economic growth in Uganda (1998-2018)
(Makerere University, 2021-03)
The study used Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) to examine the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) used as a proxy for growth and the independent variables (Indirect taxes, ...