Research Articles: Recent submissions

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    • Determinants of interest ratein emerging marketsA study of banking financial institutionsin Uganda 

      Tumwine, Sulait; Sejjaaka, Samuel; Bbaale, Edward; Kamukama, Nixon (Emerald Publishing Limited., 2018)
      The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of interest rate in emerging markets,focusing on banking financial institutions in Uganda.Using the net interest margin model, interest rate was estimated by ...

    • Quality of financial statements, information asymmetry, perceived risk and access to finance by Ugandan SMEs. 

      Tauringana, Nanyondo, M; Kamukama, Nixon; Nkundabanyanga, S.K (2016-01-06)
      The eminence of investigating the relationship between quality of financial statements, information asymmetry, perceived risk and access to finance by Ugandan Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is well understood ...

    • Intellectual Capital: Firms’ Hidden Source of Service Qualityin the Microfinance Industry in Uganda. 

      Kamukama, Nixon (Journal of African Business, 2013-11-26)
      The author examines the relative contribution of individual intellectual capital elements on service quality in Uganda’s microfinance industry (MFI), adopting analysis of moment structures, a form of structural equation ...

    • MOBILE MONEY SERVICES: A LIQUIDITY THREAT TO UGANDA’s COMMERCIAL BANKS 

      Kamukama, Nixon; Tumwine, Sulait (African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research., 2012)
      The purpose of this paper istwofold: (i) to establish whether the growth in mobile commerce in Uganda has disadvantaged commercial banks in way that their liquidity has been indirectly stolen(Pickens, 2009) and (ii)to ...

    • Competitive advantage: mediatorof intellectual capital andperformance. 

      Kamukama, Nixon; Ahiauzu, Augustine; Ntayi, Joseph M (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011)
      The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of competitive advantage in the relationship between intellectual capital and financial performance in Uganda’s microfinance institutions. The major ...

    • HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Current status, challenges and prospects 

      Amuche, Nweze Justus; Emmanuel, Eke Ifeanyichukwu; Innocent, Nweze Emeka (Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, 2017-10)
      The problem of HIV/AIDS was sort of a fairy tale and mere information till the immunological disorder was scientifically confirmed. Today, HIV/AIDS has continued to be a serious international health concern, and sub-Saharan ...

    • Uganda’s rangeland policy: intentions,consequences and opportunities. 

      Byakagaba, Patrick; Egeru, Anthony; Barasa, Bernard; Briske, David D (CrossMark, 2018)
      This paper analyses Uganda’s rangeland policies and their ecological and socio-economic consequences, beginningin pre-colonial times. The paper interrogates what informed these policies, their objectives and outcomes that ...

    • Transactional sex and HIV risks – evidence froma cross-sectional national survey among youngpeople in Uganda. 

      Choudhry, Vikas; Mbresin, Anne-Emmanuelle; Nyakato, Viola Nilah; Agardh, Anette (Global Health Action, 2015)
      Transactional sex is associated with sexual coercion and HIV risk behaviors such as multipleconcurrent sexual partnerships among young people in Uganda. In addition, transactional sex appears toplace ...

    • Indigenous techniques for assessing and monitoring range resources in East Africa 

      Nyariki, Dickson M.; Kitalyi, Aichi; Wasonga, Vivian O; Isae, Isaac M; Kyagaba, Emanuel; Lugenja, Maynard (World Agroforestry Centre, 2005)
      Local knowledge, which refers to a social activity that has been set up primarily as a result of local initiative, or techniques that are endogenously generated, enforced and maintained has not been mainstreamed in ...

    • Giving or Receiving Something for Sex: A Cross-SectionalStudy of Transactional Sex among Ugandan UniversityStudents 

      Choudhry, Vikas,Per-Olof,Anne-Emmanuelle,Emmanuel,Anette ̈stergren,Ambresin,Kyagaba,Agardh (PLOS, 2014-04-23)
      This study sought to determine the prevalence of transactional sex among university students in Uganda and toassess the possible relationship between transactional sex and sexual coercion, physical violence, mental health, ...

    • Relational capital and performance of tea manufacturing firms 

      Tumwine, Sulait , Nixon,Joseph M.Kamukama ,Ntayi (2012-01-25)
      The focus of this article is to examine the impact of relational capital components on the performance of tea manufacturing firms in Uganda. It aims at disclosing the composition of relational capital components that ...

    • Mobile Money Services 

      Kamukama, Nixon (African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, 2012)
      The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) to establish whether the growth in mobile commerce in Uganda has disadvantaged commercial banks in way that their liquidity has been indirectly stolen (Pickens, 2009) and (ii)to ...

    • Social capital 

      Kamukama, Nixon; Natamba, Bazinzi (International Journal of Commerce and Management, 2013)
      Purpose – The paper examined the mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between social intermediation and financial services in Ugandan micro finance industry. The purpose of this paper is to establish ...

    • Universal Primary Education Performance In Uganda:A Critical Analysis 

      Mutabaruka, Fredrick; Kazooba, Charles Tushabomwe (Researchjournali’s Journal of Management, 2017)
      The aim of this study is a critical analysis of Universal Primary Education (UPE) performance in Uganda basing on to the attainment of the overall objectives of primary education as set in 1996. The core inclination for ...

    • Factors influencing implementation and performance of Universal primary education programme 

      Mutabaruka, Fredrick; Tushabomwe Kazooba, Charles; Kemeza, Imelda (Researchjournali’s Journal of Management, 2018)
      In this study, a critical analysis of Factors Influencing Universal Primary Education (UPE) Programme Implementation and Performance is addressed: the case of Uganda reflecting on the realisation of UPE programme in 1997. ...

    • Exploring environmental impacts and responses in the conduit to sustainability accounting in an African country 

      Kazooba, Charles Tushabomwe; Kakuru, Willy (International Journal of Environment and Pollution Research, 2015)
      The purpose of this study is to explore environmental impacts and responses in Uganda, an African country where a sustainability accounting approach is of growing significance and relevance. This is still a relatively new ...

    • Sexual health of very young adolescents in South Western Uganda: a cross-sectional assessment of sexual knowledge and behavior 

      Katharine Bruce; Viola N. Nyakato; Gad Ndaruhutse Ruzaaza; Anna B. Ninsiima; Wendo Mlahagwa; Els Leye; Gily Coene; Kristien Michielsen; Kemigisha, Elizabeth (Reproductive Health, 2018-08-29)
      In most Sub-Saharan African countries, little is known about young adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Though some efforts have been made to understand and improve SRH of older adolescents, very young ...

    • Mediator of social intermediation and financial services access 

      kamukama, Nixon; Bazinzi, Natamba (Emerald, 2014)
      The paper examined the mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between social intermediation and financial services in Ugandan micro finance industry. The purpose of this paper is to establish the role of ...

    • knowledge of obstetric danger signs and birth preparedness practices among women in rural Uganda 

      Jerome, Kabakyenga; Prof Östergren, Per-Olof; Turyakira, Eleanor; Pettersson, Karen O (Bio Medical Central, 2011)
      Background:Improving knowledge of obstetric danger signs and promoting birth preparedness practices arestrategies aimed at enhancing utilization of skilled care in low-income countries. The aim of the study was to explore ...

    • Patterns and Predictors of Self-Medication in NorthernUganda 

      Ocan, Moses; Bwanga, Freddie; Bbosa, Godfrey S; Bagenda, Danstan; Waako, Paul; Ogwal-Okeng, Jasper; Obua, Celestino (PLOS ONE, 2014)
      Self-medication with antimicrobial agents is a common form of self-care among patients globally with the prevalence andnature differing from country to country. Here we assessed the prevalence and predictors of antimicrobial ...