The impact of counterfeit products on the growth of infant industries in low developing countries

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ), course: Business Economics, language: English, abstract: The main objective of carrying out this research was to find out the impact of counterfeit goods on the growth of infant industries in low developing countries.The research was centered on the following objectives: to find out the impact of counterfeit goods on the infant industries in Uganda, to find out the role of government towards controlling counterfeit goods, to assess the effectiveness of counterfeit goods on the consumer and to examine measures that have been undertaken to curb counterfeit goods. The researcher used both primary and secondary data where qualitative and quantitative analysis was used. Primary data was collected from a random sample of 103 respondents including retailers, Wholesalers, managers of infant industries and consumers of counterfeit products while. This was done by using interviews and questionnaires which were administered in different places. Secondary data was from literature that was previously written by other Authors. Data was analyzed using frequencies, percentages, and SPSS software and correlation analysis. The findings were descriptive and inferential statistics was used.