| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the business climate and firm sales performance in Uganda using the World
Bank Enterprise Survey of 2013 that covered 762 firms across the regions in Kampala, Wakiso,
Mbale, Jinja, Lira and Mbarara. This paper assesses relevant existing literature on business climate
and firm performance across Sub Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, South Asia, Latin
America and Caribbean and aims to fill the gap given the fact that there is a wide spectrum of studies
on small, medium and large Enterprises in Uganda, but none provides empirical evidence on their
sales performance in relation to business climate. The paper also hypothesizes that access to finance,
infrastructure and regulatory framework affect firm sales performance. In this case, sales are used as
a proxy for firm performance and the researcher employs Ordinary Least Squares regression approach
to generate robust and non-spurious results. From the findings, various business climate variables
have been shown to significantly impact on firm sales performance and these include; corruption, tax
administration, court system, infrastructure -use of internet and power. | en_US |
