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 ...
This study assesses linkages between social media and governance dynamics in 49 African
countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares and
quantile regressions. Ten bundled and ...
This study assesses the relevance of basic formal education in information technology for
inclusive human development in 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012.
The question it aims to answer is the ...
In this paper, we examine the dynamic causal relationship between financial development and
economic growth in French- and English-speaking African countries during the period 1990-
2014 – using a trivariate panel ...
This study empirically investigates the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in three Southern African Development Community countries, namely: Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa, using annual data for the period ...
This study empirically examines the dynamic causal relationship between government size and economic growth in Kenya during the 1970-2017 period, using the error-correction based autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing ...
In this paper, we review the existing literature on the relationship between financial liberalization and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and empirical evidence. Our review is different from ...
This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012.The measurement of inclusive human development encompasses both absolute pro-poor and relative ...
The mad rush for rapid economic growth led by industrialization in emerging economies is having a negative impact on ecological management. Rapid economic growth and expansion of economic activities in most developed ...
The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on the relationship between coal consumption and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and the empirical evidence. The direction of ...
The study investigates the determinants of aggregate and disaggregated import demand for Tanzania, over the period 1985 to 2015. The study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The ...
In this paper, the dynamic relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Botswana is examined using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. In order to test the robustness of the ...
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between energy consumption and financial development in South Africa during the period 1980-2013. In order to address the omission of variable bias, the study has included ...
This paper examines the determinants of both aggregate and disaggregated import demand in the case of Ghana for the period from 1985 to 2015. The study employed the newly developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) ...
In this study, the dynamic causal relationship between oil price and economic growth in Kenya has been explored during the period from 1980 to 2015. A trivariate Granger-causality framework that incorporates oil consumption ...
In this paper, we examine the key determinants of stock market development in Brazil during the period from 1980 to 2016. The study was motivated by the growing important role of stock market development in economic ...
This study investigates the determinants of import demand in South Africa from 1985 to 2015, using the autoregressive distributed-lag estimation approach. Unlike some previous studies that used a single model, the study ...
Income inequality is prevalent in both developed and developing countries. In all of these countries there are workers who are highly paid while others are given very low wages. The disgruntled low-paid workers in these ...
This study investigates whether information sharing channels that are meant to reduce information asymmetry have led to an increase in financial access. The study employs a Generalised Method of Moments technique using ...