School of Economics (SE) Collections: Recent submissions
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Public investment in infrastructure and its impact on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)Public investment in infrastructure remains critical in Uganda‘s development trajectory as population and urbanisation expand. A vast stock of infrastructure is believed to fuel economic growth by reducing the cost of ... -
The effect of coffee exports on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-09)The study investigates the effect of coffee exports on economic growth in Uganda. The study employed time series data for the period 1987-2021 with Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) using data from Uganda Coffee ... -
Cryptocurrencies Adoption in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-09)The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trustworthiness, and Cryptocurrencies adoption. A self- administered survey questionnaire was employed ... -
Impact of macroeconomic factors on economic growth in Uganda (2001-2021)
(Makerere University, 2023-03)The purpose of the study was to examine innate bearing of changes in the macroeconomic factors on the economic growth in Uganda between 2001 to 2021. It examined the bearing of two macroeconomic factors including; foreign ... -
Government expenditure and economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)This study investigates the effect of Government expenditure (disaggregated into capital and recurrent) on economic growth in Uganda using secondary data time series for the period 1985-2020. The data was obtained from ... -
Tax policy and performance of the service sector among SMES in Uganda : a case study of Nakawa division.
(Makerere University, 2023-07)Using a sample of 229 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nakawa division, this study analyzed the effect of tax policy on the performance of the service sector among SMEs in Uganda. The study used a quantitative approach ... -
Nandago, M.G. (2022). Effect of education on the performance of internal migrants' business in Uganda: a study on small and medium enterprises.
(Makerere University, 2022-12-30)The study analyses the impact of education on the performance of internal migrants business in Uganda using secondary data by Center for Basic Research with funding from IDCR for the period October to November 2018 and was ... -
Trade openness and economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-04)This study examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth in Uganda using annual time series data obtained from the World Development Indicators of the World Bank for a period between 1984 and 2019. The Johansen ... -
A case for regulatory impact assessment of the rural water supply and management in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-11)The study aimed at examining influence of the National Water Policy, 1999 on the rural water supply and management. The Uganda's water supply and management is regulated by the National Water Policy, 1999 and The Water ... -
Fiscal policy and public debt sustainability in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2019-06)The level of Uganda’s public debt has created doubts regarding the government’s sustained ability to repay. This is because of both the rapidly increasing debt accumulation as well as share of interest payments in the ... -
The effect of fertility rate on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)The relationship between fertility rate and economic growth is an important subject that has remained contentious due to the divergence of results regarding the effect of fertility rate on economic growth. This study ... -
Impact of inflation threshold on economic growth in East African countries
(Makerere University, 2020-12)The study examined the impact of inflation threshold on economic growth in five East African Countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. The study specifically sought to examine the relationship between inflation ... -
The augmented Solow growth model, total factor productivity growth and the cross-country income growth disparities in Africa.
(Makerere University, 2019-02)Cross‐country differences in the rates and patterns of economic growth continue to attract scholarly debate. This study contributes to this debate by examining the role and the relative contribution of Factor Accumulation ... -
Economic growth and investment in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2017-12)World over, economic growth is the major goal of each government; therefore, the major objective of the present study is to establish the impact of investments on economic growth in Uganda from 1985 to 2016. To achieve ... -
Factors affecting loan repayment in commercial banks in Uganda: A case of Centenary bank, Mapeera branch Kampala.
(Makerere University, 2022-03)The study examined the factors affecting loan repayment in Commercial banks in Uganda using Centenary bank, head office as a case study. The specific objectives of the study include: to assess the effect of interest rates ... -
Determinants of coffee export in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-06)The study set out to investigate the determinants of Uganda’s coffee export. The study applied co-integration technique and error collection modeling to Ugandan annual data starting from 1990 to 2019. The results indicate ... -
Gender dimension of poverty in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-12)Reducing poverty in Uganda is one of the agendas of the National Development Plan III and this should be achieved by 2025. However, poverty in Uganda is still high and the situation is worse at regional level and by gender. ... -
Taxation and financial performance of SMEs in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)Empirical evidence has shown that taxation may impede SME growth through its transmission effects on the financial performance in developed and developing countries. However, little is known about the impact of taxation ... -
Asymmetric effects of fiscal policy on economic growth in Uganda: A nonlinear ardl approach
(Makerere University, 2022-12)This study examined the asymmetric effect of fiscal policy on economic growth in Uganda using the annual time series data collected from the Uganda Revenue Authority and World Development Indicators of the World Bank from ... -
The effect of foreign aid and institutional quality on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-12)This study aims at understanding the effect of foreign aid and institutional quality on economic growth in Uganda for a period 1990 to 2021. Secondary data is used and sourced from the World Development Indicators and ...