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The Effect of Public Debt on Economic Growth in Uganda (1985-2016)
(Makerere University, 2018-11-12)
This study empirically investigated the effect of public debt on Uganda’s economic growth. It used time series data (1985-2016) that was obtained from the World Bank Development Indicators. Different tests that included ...
The Impact of Taxation on Economic Growth in Kenya: (1979 - 2015)
(Makerere University, 2017-11-14)
The study was motivated by the worrying trend of sharply increasing public debt in Kenya which has a multiplier effect of draining the economic growth through high debt servicing charges. The study therefore purposed to ...
The Effect of Remittance on Economic Growth of Eastern African Countries
(Makerere University, 2017-11)
This study examined the effect of remittance on economic growth of Eastern African countries. Currently, the flow of workers remittance from developed to developing countries has received great attention among scholars and ...
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 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 ...
Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2019-10)
The main objective of this study was to establish the effect of government expenditure on economic growth in Uganda. The data used was quarterly secondary time series obtained from World Bank website (world development ...
Monetary Policy Framework and Economic Growth in Uganda: Effectiveness of Inflation Targeting Framework
(Makerere University, 2019-10-18)
In July 2011, bank of Uganda changed its Monetary Policy Framework from targeting monetary aggregates to inflation targeting lite framework. In spite of its ability to stabilize inflation, the impact of the IT regime on ...
Trade Openness and Economic Growth in Uganda 1980-2016
(Makerere University, 2017-12)
It is believed that trade openness will always result into high real GDP growth rates. However, discussions about the relationship between these two macroeconomic variables both in academic and policy arena is not a foregone ...
External Debt Burden and Economic Growth in Uganda (1985-2017)
(Makerere University, 2019-12-10)
The main objective of the study was to assess the impact external debt burden on economic growth in Uganda. Different from previous studies, in addition to being country specific, the study also uses a longer time series ...