The main objective of this study was to analyze responsiveness of tax revenue to changes in national income in Uganda for the period1991 to 2016. The data was obtained from Uganda Revenue Authority website and World Bank ...
Akelloh, Lyindah Bin Adik(Makerere University, 2017)
The study analyzes the determinants of immunization status in Uganda. Specifically, the study establishes whether immunization increases with an increase in mother’s age, region, type of residence, educational level, birth ...
This study was aimed at identifying and documenting key factors that may be responsible for mortality amongst Ugandan children under five years using data from the Ugandan Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) (UBOS and ICF ...
This study assessed the difference between the rural and urban Consumer Price Index and how the overall rate of inflation was affected when the indices were combined into a national index. The assessment period was from ...
Bbaale, Edward; Okumu, Ibrahim Mike(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)
Purpose:
Corruption was ranked among the top five biggest obstacles affecting the operation of enterprises in Africa and was rated as a severe obstacle by close to 40 percent of firms in the sample. Consequently, the ...
Ndagije, Allan Mugarura(Makerere University, 2016-05)
The objective of this study was to ascertain the causal relationship between volume of coffee exports and other macroeconomic variables (real effective exchange rates and international coffee prices) from 2001 to 2011, ...
This study applied the Contingent Valuation Method in estimating the economic valuation of Mabira forest by determining the Willingness to pay for the forest goods/services. The main
objective of the study was to estimate ...
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 ...
This study analyses the impact of interest rate liberalization on private investment in Uganda for the period 1980-2010. The specific objectives were to evaluate the impact of interest rate liberalization on private ...
The overall objective of the study was to examine the relative technical efficiency and investigate total factor productivity growth of 15 selected African public universities during the period, 2000-2007. The relative ...
This study investigates the relationship between financial sector development and economic growth for the East African community countries over the period 1990 to 2012. Annual macroeconomic data extracted from the World ...
Uganda is a land-locked country with road infrastructure constituting the main mode of transport. However, by 2010 road coverage both paved and unpaved remains low (3112 km and 16888 km respectively), with all-weather paved ...
Uganda has continued to have a trade deficit since 1980 implying that its annual export-import ratios over time have been less than unity despite several reforms undertaken. This study therefore examined the factors ...
We adopt a dynamic general equilibrium model in which bureaucratic corruption leads to poor quality public services thereby incentivising households to engage in tax evasion. With aid, government is able to shore up the ...
This study investigated the effect of financial innovation in form of new transaction technologies on demand for narrow money (M1) in Uganda. In particular, it assessed the individual effect of automated teller machines ...
Tonui, Vincent Kiplangat(Makerere University, 2014-12)
This study sets out to examine the determinants of the performance of Uganda’s tea exports between the years 1970-2012 employing annual time series data. More specifically, this study employed an export supply model, which ...
This study had three objectives; to explore causality between aggregate public expenditure and economic growth, to assess whether convergence exists in public expenditure and economic growth and to estimate the effect of ...
Mawejje, Joseph; Okumu, Ibrahim Mike(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2014)
We provide some empirical evidence of how a poor business environment may incentivise tax evasion. In particular, we examine the roles that specific components of the business environment that include: bribery, efficiency ...
Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Nakajjo, Alex; Isoke, Doreen(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2008-02)
This paper describes the socioeconomic determinants of primary school dropout in Uganda with the aid of a logistic model analysis using the 2004 National Service Delivery Survey data. The Objectives were to establish the; ...
Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo; Okumu, Ibrahim Mike(2012)
We study the role of the size of the economy in mitigating the impact of public sector corruption on economic development. The analysis is based on a dynamic general equilibrium model in which growth occurs endogenously ...