This study investigates how enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality in 42 African countries for the period 2004-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments. Three inequality indicators ...
This study investigates the effect of inequality on female employment in 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and ...
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on three ...
The problem of low domestic savings is inherent in most Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. This has motivated most of the SADC countries to institute policies that seek to attract foreign capital to ...
Student performance in public economics and consequently microeconomics as pre-requisite can improve with the correct pedagogic intervention. This paper proposes an empirical model that investigates the factors or predictors ...
This study complements existing literature by assessing how various types of foreign aid
complement each other in boosting inclusive human development in Africa. (a) When ‘aid to social
infrastructure’ is moderated with ...
This study examines the hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on political governance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments and 53 African countries for the period ...
The study examines the dynamic relationship between financial development and investment in three Southern African countries (Botswana, South Africa and Mauritius) during the period 1976 – 2014 using annual data. The ...
This study examined the effect of real exchange rate misalignments on economic growth in
sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by employing 15 countries. The sample is subdivided into 7 lowincome
countries and 8 middle-income countries. ...
This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty-nine Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary ...
This study investigates linkages between the mobile phone, information sharing offices (ISO) and financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. ISO are private credit bureaus and public ...
The aim of this paper is to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) or foreign
aid has made developing countries worse off as alleged by a number of aid critics. ODA
disbursement to developing countries ...
This study investigates the relevance of government quality in moderating the incidence of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Environmental ...
This study investigates how increasing economic development affects the green economy in terms of CO2 emissions, using data from 44 countries in the SSA for the period 2000-2012. The Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) is ...
This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based ...
This research examines the relevance of inclusive development in modulating the role of
governance on environmental degradation. The study focuses on forty-four countries in sub-
Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. ...
This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in 82 developing countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation ...
This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period
2004-2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index
and Palma ratio. The adopted ...
There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big banks compared to small banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lending rates as ...
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile ...