International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR)
  Year: 2020 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 8 | Page No.: 91-96
The impacts of inflation to economic activities performance of East Africa countries
Geofrey Gidion Rwezimula, Raheel Akhtar

Abstract:
This paper analyzed the secondary data from the World Bank economic growth indicators to determine the impact of inflation measured by GDP deflator to economic activities productive structure performance of the East Africa countries expressed by their gross domestic product. The panel data were developed from the world bank economic growth indicator for five East Africa countries from 2000 to 2018 which were analyze using fixed effect model and random effect model to determine the impact of inflation (INF) measured by GDP deflator to performance of East Africa countries economic structure specified by different economic activities that include agriculture (AGR) value added (% of GDP), industry (IND) value added (% of GDP), trade (TRA) value added (% of GDP), and Imports (IMP) of goods and services (% of GDP) on economic performance or GDP growth (annual %) using the multiple regression model. The Hausman test revealed that random effect model was suitable to accept. The results show that inflation has negative impact on economic structure activities performance of East Africa countries.