This paper investigates the dynamic contributions of public and private investment to economic growth in Zambia during the period from 1970 to 2014. In the analysis, the paper also estimated the important indirect contribution ...
This study performs an examination on the impact of public and private investment on economic growth in Zimbabwe from 1970 to 2014. In addition to estimating the economic growth model, the study also estimates the crowding ...
This paper examines the causal relationship between both bank-based and market-based financial development and investment in Mauritius for the period from 1976 to 2014. The study assumes that investment and financial ...
The role of monetary policy in promoting economic growth remains empirically an open research question. This paper attempts to bridge the knowledge gap by investigating the impact of monetary policy on economic growth in ...
This paper aims to empirically investigate the relevance of exogenous growth models in explaining economic growth in three Southern African countries, using the recently developed ARDL bounds-testing approach. Furthermore, ...
Since the 1990s the SADC region has closely followed declining trends that occurred in the industrialised world in terms of corporate tax rates. The main purpose of this paper is to find appropriate explanations behind ...
Taxpayer behaviour has in South Africa moved to the forefront of the investigation of revenue collection with regular tax awareness campaigns being launched by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). Issues relating to ...
The paper attempts to elaborate on the revenue-raising capabilities (economic efficiency and viability) of a value-added tax (VAT) system, particularly in developing countries. The analysis concentrates on the effect of a ...
This article analyses experiences in the developing world with reference to lessons learned from developed regions. The first section provides a theoretical background, analysing the meaning of commodity tax. The second ...
Schoeman, N.J; Robinson, Zurika; de Wet, T.J(2000-06)
This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (PDI) in South Africa during the past 30 years. Casual empirical analysis reveals a definite linkage between FDI flows and variables such as ...
This paper investigates the sovereign risk premium as an indicator of sovereign risk. An attempt was made to capture evidence that best explains bond yield spreads for the 21-year period after the inception of democracy ...
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 ...
Credit derivatives played a large role in intensifying losses during the subprime lending
crisis, which began in 2007 in the US and spiralled into a financial crisis in 2008. One of the
major reasons for this descent ...
Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach; this paper examines the short-run and long-run impact of monetary policy on economic growth in Kenya for the period 1973 to 2013. The paper uses both ...
In this study, we have explored the causal relationship between energy consumption and
economic growth in Ethiopia, during the period from 1971 to 2013. We have employed a
multivariate Granger-causality framework that ...
This paper examines the impact of both bank-based and market-based financial development on investment in Botswana during the period 1976 – 2012, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The ...
This study examines the determinants of domestic investment in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries with explicit focus on the role of governance/institutions. The literature has emphases more on the macroeconomic factors ...
This paper investigates the dynamic causal linkage between bank-based financial development and economic growth in Ethiopia during the period from 1980 to 2014. The study includes savings and investment as intermittent ...
The rate of unemployment in South Africa remains stubbornly high despite vastly improved macroeconomic fundamentals and relatively high rates of economic growth for most of the post-1994 democratic era. Employment growth ...
In this paper, the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in Zambia are investigated using the recently developed ARDL bounds-testing approach. The study has been motivated by the unsustainable growth trends ...