Unlike many other international instruments, accession to the WTO does not simply require the commitment of the government to sign and ratify the multilateral agreements. A country needs to make considerable legislative ...
Considerable progress has been made globally with regard to the poverty question. The greatest reduction in poverty has been in China where millions have been moved out of poverty and this has been due to China’s impressive ...
Increased world trade has enhanced competition between manufacturers globally across countries. However, over the past 20 years, the manufacturing industry's share in South Africa's GDP, employment, and exports has been ...
This research analyses the statistical relationship between income distribution and seven taxation and government expenditure components in Namibia using data from 1996-2016. The research is aimed at creating new knowledge ...
The traditional quality culture in the pharmaceutical industry is
driven by the regulatory process of marketing authorisation and
manufacturing authorisation. These components of the South African
regulatory control ...
Knowledge of the many influences that affect purchasing
preferences is important for marketers o Apart from the
technical and economic factors of importance, non- economic
factors are also significanto The latter have ...
Studies explaining international the impacts of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on trade flows in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are sparse. The available research indicates that inter-regional trade in SSA is limited because ...
Local government, as the third sphere of South Africa’s three-sphere system of governance, is tasked with the constitutional mandate to provide an array of services to its respective communities, via its municipalities. ...
Capital structure has been a subject of debate for a number of decades. Extensive research explaining various theories of capital structure can be found. The most notable theories are the Modigliani and Miller capital ...
This study attempts to analyse the key FDI determinants in African countries using annual data for the period from 2003 to 2015. It firstly, gives the introduction and the background of FDI. Secondly, it provides both ...
Asians and expatriate Africans have been prominent in the SMME economy of South Africa. This work seeks to establish reasons for the growth and competitiveness of SMMEs run by these groups compared to those operated by ...
Despite the meaningful impact that credit ratings have on sovereign countries and financial
markets, research has not fully explored the determinants of these ratings in many emerging markets
(EMs). The aim of this ...
South Africa is a country that depends heavily on coal to produce energy. With the global outcry
to address climate change challenges, a shift to renewable energy sources is critical. The change
from large carbon ...
Many concrete problems may be cast in a multi-objective optimisation framework.
The redundancy of existing methods for solving multi-objective programming
problems susceptible to inconsistencies, coupled with the necessity ...
This study aimed to assess the determinants and deterrents of profit shifting, which can occur as a result of corporate income tax competition, with a view to aid in collecting sufficient tax revenue to meet public spending ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces substantial development funding gaps and significant socio-economic challenges. To overcome these funding gaps and achieve the many developmental goals, many SSA countries rely on external ...
African countries take advantage of the blue economy to boost their local economies. Consequently, countries with coastlines, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can develop strategies for coastal tourism. This ...
This study aims to determine the main drivers of financial market development, with a
specific interest in the relationship between the stock and bank credit markets, as proxies
of financial market development, and the ...
The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including the government, policymakers, policyholders, and investors. In Kenya, there have been relatively few ...