An Assessment of Factors Hindering the Growth and Development of Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange Market.

Millinga , Vumi Robert (2015) An Assessment of Factors Hindering the Growth and Development of Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange Market. Masters thesis, The Open University Of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study reflects on assessment of the micro economic factor hindering the growth of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange market. The main target of this study was to determine the factors hindering the growth of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange market. Four examined variables such as money supply exchange rate, inflation rate and interest rate were considered. The study employed quantitatively approach where four variables were tested by hypothesis. Moreover only secondary data were used to analyze the variables whereby the multiple regression model is used to relate the micro economic variables and stock exchange growth at Dar es salaam stock market. The findings in this study revealed that, four investigated variables in this study, one which is interest rate was found to have the negative relationship with Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange index. The inflation rate, exchange rate and money supply were statistically insignificant explaining the variability of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange market. I recommend that, the government should manage well the micro economic policies in order to give confidence to our investors and attract new investors. Researchers can use the study findings and explore on more variables that were not used in this paper, such research can even use different modeling techniques to investigate the variables in the study.

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