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The Determinants of Private Sector Demand for Loans in Uganda for the Period 1980-2015
(Makerere University, 2018-10-23)
This study aimed at examining the determinants of loan demand by the private sector in the Uganda using annual time series data for the period 1980-2015 Employing a time series analysis using the Johansen methodology, the ...
Effect of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-11)
Foreign Direct Investment is important in the world economies in terms of output, employment and trade. However, attracting FDI has been a great concern to many countries especially the emerging countries. This has led to ...
Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Uganda’s Trade Balance
(Makerere University, 2018-09)
Assessing the Effect of Idiosyncratic Shocks on Coping Mechanisms among Agricultural Households in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-11)
The study sought to analyze the ex-ante and ex-post coping mechanisms to the idiosyncratic shocks affecting agricultural households. The study employed multinomial logit model for analysis on UNPS 2016 dataset.
There were ...
Determinants of Public Expenditure on Infrastructure in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-11-22)
This study expanded the line of research in evaluating the determinants of government expenditure on infrastructure with the use of the Engle and Granger (1987) approach using annual time series data from 1991 to 2017 in ...
Determinants of Interest Rate Spreads in Uganda’s Commercial Banking Sector: A Panel Data Analysis
(Makerere University, 2018-12-10)
Liberalisation of financial markets is associated with a reduction in interest rate spreads. However, interest rate spreads have persistently remained high in Uganda despite the financial liberalisation that was undertaken ...
The Effect of Public Expenditure on Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-06-07)
The 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 ...
Determinants of Capital Formation in Uganda: (1984-2016) Does Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Openness Matter?
(Makerere University, 2018-10)
This research investigates the determinants of Capital formation in Uganda (1984-2016) using the Bounds Approach to Cointegration developed by Persaran and Shin (1999). Since Uganda registered its highest Annual Percentage ...
The Determinants of Private Sector Credit: Case Study of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-11)
The main objective of the study was to investigate the determinants of Private Sector Credit in Uganda. The study used Cointegration analysis applying the Johansen Procedure and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) approach ...
Technical and vocational education and training in Uganda: A critical analysis
(Wiley, 2018-10)
This article undertakes a diagnostic study of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) subsector with the rationale of characterizing the subsector and identifying the areas of potential strengths and ...