The motivation for this study stems from the weak economic growth that the country has been
experiencing lately, coupled with the concern over government spending in South Africa. Estimating
only the effect of government ...
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, ...
Despite decades of development efforts to combat desertification processes in southern
Zimbabwe, a development deadlock occurs. Using the local knowledge systems as a basis, and
making an effort to strategically facilitate ...
In this paper we examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Botswana during the period 1980-2016. We disaggregate energy consumption into six components, namely: total energy consumption, ...
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 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 study investigated the impact of energy consumption on human development in South Africa, using annual data from 1990 to 2019. The study used disaggregated data on energy measures namely: oil products consumption; ...
This study assesses whether improving governance standards affects environmental quality in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. ...
This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely ...
This study assesses how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects life insurance and non-life insurance in a panel of forty-eight African countries with data for the period 2004-2014. The adopted ...
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 thesis explores the concept of entrepreneurship. It aims at answering the
question: does the Austrian view provide a comprehensive framework for the analysis
of entrepreneurship? For this purpose the problem is ...
In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post-2015 development agenda, this study assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan ...
This study examines the fundamental determinants of bilateral trade flows between South Africa and BRIC countries. This is done by exploring the magnitude of exports among these countries. The Gravity model approach is ...
There are different views about the availability of non-renewable resources in the long run.
Hotelling’s (1931) seminal model of exhaustible resources greatly influenced subsequent
studies. Hotelling’s and related ...
The objective of the study was to quantify the evolving scope of quality
management as practiced in a sample of companies in South Afiica, and to correlate this with corporate profitability.
The empirical data in this ...
This study estimates the determinants of import demand in Tanzania using time-series data for the period from 1985 to 2015.The study applied the ARDL approach on Tanzania’s time-series data to examine the key drivers of ...
This dissertation explored the efficacy of the new Basel III banking standards in SACU, grounded on the conjecture that they are not reflective of economies of SACU, but are merely an intensification of Basel II, rather ...
This study set out to explore the strategising practices of middle managers and thereby expand the body of knowledge in terms of middle management practices in strategising in general, and makes an original contribution ...
Most recent studies have established a significant link between public debt and inflation in developed and developing countries. However, limited studies dealt with the direction of causality between these variables. Since ...