1. Uganda's domestic exports percentage shares by region 2. Industrial production index of five major industrial groups 3. Summary statistics of major variables 4. Proportion of exporters by sector, size and location 5. Proportion of exporters by location, age of the firm and education of the top manager 6. Average capital-labour ratios of exporters and non-exporters 7. Determinants of propensity to export: Tobit estimates 8. Determinants of propensity to export: Tobit estimates 9. Determinants of propensity to export (with interaction terms): Tobit estimates 10. Determinants of propensity to export to different regions:

Decentralisation was supposed to lead to a decrease in infant mortality rates, however, the opposite effect was seen with rates increasing in individual regions. There is need for further detailed studies to understand why infant mortality rates increased during the period of decentralisation in Uganda.

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The aim of this study was to establish the effects of innovation on the growth of Ugandan manufacturing firms' using pseudo panel data. Little is known about the relationship between innovation and firm growth in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study adopts Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect and a learning model by Jovanovic (with some modifications) to analyse the relationship between innovation and firm growth in Uganda. Descriptive results show that innovative firms, as measured by computer usage and purchase of new machinery, compared to non-innovative firms on average grow faster. However, regression results showed that there is no significant difference between the growth rates of innovative and non-innovative firms.