This thesis explores the relationship among inflation, bank credit, and economic
growth in the case of Uganda using data obtained from the World development
indicators from 1983- 2015. The variables used are Gross Domestic Product for
economic development, consumer prices as the annual percentage of the GDP for
inflation rates and domestic credit to the private sector by banks for bank credit. The
thesis applies the unit root tests (Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips – Perron and
the Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin test) to test the stationarity of the variables,
cointegration test to investigate the long run relationship between the variables,
Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to determine the short run and long-run
relationship and lastly the Granger causality to determine the direction of Inflation,
Bank credit and Economic growth.
VECM results indicate a negative long-run relationship between inflation and
economic growth and also a long run negative relationship between bank credit and
economic growth in Uganda. This adds to the available literature on the study of
inflation, bank credit and economic growth in the world and its uniqueness in the
results of the negative relationship between bank credit and economic growth which
is a rare case. Also, the results would enable the policymakers in Uganda to make the
right decisions to enable the development of the country as well as ensure that the
negative relationship between bank credit and economic growth does not adversely
affect the country‟s economy.
Keywords: Inflation; bank credit; economic development; Uganda
Öz:
Bu tez Uganda‟da 1983-2015 yılları arasında enflasyon, banka kredileri ve ekonomik
kalkınma arasındaki uzun dönemli denge ilişkisini incelemektedir. Bu tezde
kullanılan değişkenler sırasıyla gayri safi yurtiçi hasıla, enflasyon oranları ve özel
sektöre sağlanan banka kredileridir.
Hata düzeltme modeli sonuçlarına göre enflasyon, banka kredileri ve ekonomik
büyüme arasında uzun vadede negatif ilişki bulunmuştur. Bu tezden elde edilen
sonuçlara göre Uganda‟nın ekonomik kalkınması için öneriler tartışılmıştır.
Anahtar kelimeler: Enflasyon; banka kredileri; ekonomik kalkınma; Uganda
