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dc.contributor.authorTwinomugisha, Bob
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-15T06:11:56Z
dc.date.available2018-11-15T06:11:56Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-07
dc.identifier.citationTwinomugisha, B. (2018). The Effect of Public Expenditure on Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Uganda. Unpublished masters research report. Makerere University, Kampala, Ugandaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/6713
dc.descriptionA research project submitted to the School of Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Master of Arts in Economic Policy and Planningen_US
dc.description.abstractThe major objective of this study was to examine the impact of government expenditure on infrastructure and economic growth; the data used was sourced from the World Bank data base and the government expenditure components included government expenditure on infrastructure, energy, and telecom. The study applied Vector Auto Regression estimation technique using annual time series data for the period 1985 to 2016 to evaluate the impact of government expenditure on economic growth. The Johansen co integration test results revealed a long-run relationship between government expenditure on infrastructure, energy, telecom projects and GDP growth rate. While the Granger- Causality test indicated bi-directional causality between GDP growth rate and all the components of government expenditure that were used. And finally the VAR results revealed that government expenditure on infrastructure, energy, and telecom project, had a positive impact on economic growth. The study recommended additional expenditure on physical infrastructure such as roads, railways, airports, water facilities, energy (electricity) and telecom projects (communication) contribute significantly to the economic growth by increasing the productivity of the private and public sectors.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectPublic expenditureen_US
dc.subjectInfrastructureen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Growthen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectGovernment expenditureen_US
dc.subjectEnergyen_US
dc.subjectTelecomen_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Public Expenditure on Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Ugandaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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