Browsing by Author "Hisali, Eria"

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    Adaptation To Climate Change In Uganda: Evidence From Micro Level Data
    (Global environmental change, 2011) Hisali, Eria; Birungi, Patrick; Buyinza, Faisal
    This study employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production. Factors that mediate or hinder adaptation across different shocks and strategies include age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure. There are also differences in choice of adaptation strategies by agro-climatic zone. The appropriate policy level responses should complement the autonomous adaptation strategies by facilitating technology adoption and availing information to farmers not only with regard to climate related forecasts but available weather and pest resistant varieties.
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    Adaptation to Climate Change in Uganda: Evidence from Micro Level Data
    (Global environmental change, 2011) Hisali, Eria; Birungi, Patrick; Buyinza, Faisal
    This study employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production. Factors that mediate or hinder adaptation across different shocks and strategies include age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure. There are also differences in choice of adaptation strategies by agro-climatic zone. The appropriate policy level responses should complement the autonomous adaptation strategies by facilitating technology adoption and availing information to farmers not only with regard to climate related forecasts but available weather and pest resistant varieties.
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    The evolution of industry in Uganda
    (WIDER, 2014) Obwona, Marios; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Kiiza, Julius; Hisali, Eria
    The paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period in the 1940s to date. It is argued that the state played a central role in industrialization during the pre-colonial and immediate post-colonial period. The paper further looks at industrialisation during the liberal phase. The current structure, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist policy to industrialization has not been adequate to propel industrial development in Uganda. State withdrawal from direct involvement in industrial development was prematurely done and should be revisited
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    Microeffects of Women’s Education on Contraceptive Use and Fertility: The Case of Uganda
    (Journal of International Development, 2014) Buyinza, Faisal; Hisali, Eria
    This article uses the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (2006), which links an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her education level. Thus, in this study, an attempt has been made to investigate the relationships between women's education, contraceptive use, and fertility rates in Uganda. The findings indicate that women's education and social–economic factors are important in explaining reproductive behavior. Fertility findings show that higher education levels are consistently associated with lower fertility rates and positively associated with contraceptive use. The major implication of these results is that raising women's education improves their economic opportunities, and the behavioral responses in fertility will lead to the decline in population by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex and subsequent fall in fertility.
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    Regional Economic Integration and its Implication on Exports in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Region (1980e2010)
    (Journal of African Trade, 2024) Mwebaze, Tom; Hisali, Eria; Tumwebaze, Henry
    One of the major development challenges facing Africa has been the small and fragmented economies with low incomes and low levels of intra-regional trade. To foster economic growth and promote intra-regional exports, Africa has witnessed renewed momentum for regional integration, in particular trade among COMESA countries. The present study employs fixed effects, random effects, and instrumental variables GMM regressions to estimate an augmented trade gravity model. We find that the formation of the COMESA trading bloc has promoted intra-regional exports. This finding suggests that to enhance export flows in the region, the process of economic integration should be deepened.
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    Sectoral Growth Patterns and Unemployment in Uganda
    (East African Journal of Business and Economics, 2023) Mukoki, James; Hisali, Eria; Mukisa, Ibrahim
    Uganda’s labour market is typically characterized by extensive productivity and earning variations with large amounts of labour trapped and toiling in low-productivity subsistence activities. A policy aimed at reallocating such underemployed labour to higher productivity activities plays a role in tackling the unemployment problem and is a top priority for policymakers. This study examines the asymmetric effects of differential sectoral growth on unemployment in Uganda, considering both the size and composition effect of sectoral growth. The results of this study indicated that a positive shock in agricultural sector value added has a positive causal effect on unemployment. Also, a positive and negative shock in the industrial sector does not affect the level of unemployment. Finally, both a positive and negative shock in the service sector value added has a negative effect on the unemployment level. Another interesting finding of this study is that both the size and composition of sectoral growth matter in addressing the unemployment problem in Uganda. Therefore, both positive and negative shocks should be forecasted and incorporated in government planning frameworks for short, medium, and long particularly during manpower planning. However, sectors with higher labour intensity should be prioritized in budgetary allocations, the government should devise means of reducing underemployment of labour trapped in low-productivity agriculture and other small-scale production activities to create meaningful employment.