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The Impact of Exchange Rate on Private Sector Investments in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-11-25)
The Ugandan shilling has slowly but surely lost value against the US dollar since liberalization of the foreign exchange market. For example, in 1990 one US dollar was valued at just 428.9 Ugandan shillings, however by ...
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 ...
Determinants of Non-Performing Loans in Uganda’s Commercial Banking Industry 2002:1 – 2017:2
(Makerere University, 2018-12)
Over the past decade, non-performing loans in Uganda’s commercial banking industry have continued to show a positive trend. The continued increase in NPLs has not only affected credit growth, but has also resulted in the ...
The Causal Relationship between Population Growth and Economic Growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-08)
This study analyzed the causal relationship between population growth and economic growth in Uganda by specifying a multivariate framework and the researcher employed the Johansen cointegration technique and the Vector ...
The Impact of Domestic Savings and Trade Openness on Kenya’s Economic Growth (1985-2017)
(Makerere University, 2019-10-11)
The chief objective of this study was to examine and establish the impact of domestic savings on
the economic growth of Kenya using annual data for the period 1985 to 2015. The study
employed an ordinary least square ...
Bank Credit and Private Investments in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-11-28)
This study empirically establishes the impact of bank credit to the private sector on domestic private investment in Uganda. Specifically, the study investigates other factors that affect domestic private investment in ...
Effect of remittances on Uganda’s economic growth
(2019-08)
This study investigated the effect of remittances on Uganda’s economic growth using annual data for the period 1986 to 2017. In this study, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was used. The variables that were ...
The Energy Transition and Implications for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa: Case of Household Cooking Energy in Kampala City
(Makerere University, 2019-12-05)
This research sought to examine the factors which affecting the adoption of sustainable energy sources in Kampala City using the case of briquettes and the implications of the continued reliance on wood charcoal as a source ...
Determinants of Inflation in South Sudan (2011-2019)
(2019-12)
In the recent past, South Sudan has witnessed a swift rise in general price level which adversely distresses real output, relative prices, the standard of living and the overall macroeconomic system. Perhaps, the investigation ...
The Impact of Population Growth on Economic Growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-09-18)
The major objective of this study was to find out the impact of population growth on economic growth in Uganda. The study also had specific objectives which included: To investigate the causal relationship between population ...