High Technology Exports, Gross Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Uganda: A Vector Auto Regressive Approach

Paul Wabiga; Sawuya Nakijoba

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High Technology Exports, Gross Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Uganda: A Vector Auto Regressive Approach

Paul Wabiga, Sawuya Nakijoba

Published in International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 7, Issue 6)

Received: 5 September 2018 Accepted: 26 September 2018 Published: 1 November 2018

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This study examines the relationship between high technology exports, gross capital formation and economic growth in Uganda with the ultimate aim of establishing whether exportation of high-tech goods and gross capital formation have a significant effect on economic growth. Motivated by the continued policy shift in Sub-Saharan Africa and generally in the developing world, towards outward looking strategies, this study seeks to provide a validation test to this trend from a small open developing country perspective. The study utilizes data from the World Bank Development Indicators. This study estimates a basic Vector Autoregressive model to establish the likely effects of high-tech exports and gross capital formation on growth. The authors later provide in-depth analysis of our results using impulse response functions (IRF). Our Vector Auto Regression (VAR) results indicate that in the short run, high-tech exports do not have a significant effect on economic growth in Uganda and gross capital formation has a negative and significant effect. However, IRF reveals gross capital formation having a positive and significant effect on growth and the effect of high-tech exports improving significantly over a long horizon. Our findings do not contradict previous studies but support the belief that once economic fundamentals are put in place, high-tech exportation can spur growth more than mere export volumes.

Published in	International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 7, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijber.20180706.13
Page(s)	191-202
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High Technology Exports, Gross Capital Formation, Economic Growth, VAR, IRFs, Uganda

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Paul Wabiga, Sawuya Nakijoba. High Technology Exports, Gross Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Uganda: A Vector Auto Regressive Approach. Int J Bus Econ Res. 2018;7(6):191-202. doi: 10.11648/j.ijber.20180706.13

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Paul Wabiga

Graduate School of Economic and Management Sciences (GEM), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Sawuya Nakijoba

Capacity Development Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Paul Wabiga, Sawuya Nakijoba. High Technology Exports, Gross Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Uganda: A Vector Auto Regressive Approach. Int J Bus Econ Res. 2018;7(6):191-202. doi: 10.11648/j.ijber.20180706.13

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