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Socio-economic impacts of transport infrastructure investment in Uganda: Insight from frontloading expenditure on Uganda's urban roads and highways

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  • Muvawala, Joseph
  • Sebukeera, Hennery
  • Ssebulime, Kurayish

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The relationship between transport infrastructure and economic growth has remained one of the most striking expanses from the perspectives of economists, researchers as well as policy makers. This paper therefore has examined the impact of road transport infrastructure investment on Uganda's economic performance and also quantified the economic costs associated with inefficient urban road transport infrastructure network for the case of Uganda. The paper utilizes a rich econometric methodology involving the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) to estimate the impact of road transport infrastructure and economic growth as well as traffic counts of travel East bound (EB) and West Bound (WB) for the major roads leading to Kampala Capital City to estimate the generalized cost of travel as the city represents more than 70% of the total national vehicle traffic/population. The quantification of gains and costs provided a benchmark to inform further policy processes, planning, and feasibility studies.

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  • Muvawala, Joseph & Sebukeera, Hennery & Ssebulime, Kurayish, 2021. "Socio-economic impacts of transport infrastructure investment in Uganda: Insight from frontloading expenditure on Uganda's urban roads and highways," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:retrec:v:88:y:2021:i:c:s0739885920301694
    DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100971
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