Purpose – This paper aims to investigate firm‐level interactions between productivity and exporting in Uganda's manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach – The paper empirically tested two hypotheses that relate to the dynamic gains from trade and also have tended to dominate the...

Purpose – The debate concerning the relationship between maternal education and child nutritional status is not a foregone conclusion. This paper aims to contribute to the existing debate by examining this relationship for the case of Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – Theoretically, the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to estimate both direct and indirect channels through which imported inputs spur exporting in the African manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach: The authors estimated models for all exporters, direct exporters and indirect exporters using a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of bank specific factors on interest rate in banking financial institutions (BFIs) of Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: To analyze the effect, an OLS random effects regression estimate on a data set of 24 banks from 2008 to 2016...

Purpose: Corruption was ranked among the top five biggest obstacles affecting the operation of enterprises in Africa and was rated as a severe obstacle by close to 40 percent of firms in the sample. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corruption...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of interest rate in emerging markets, focusing on banking financial institutions in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: Using the net interest margin model, interest rate was estimated by applying a panel random effects...

Purpose: The World Bank (2017) ranks poor infrastructure, particularly electricity, as the second topmost obstacle (after access to finance) affecting enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in...