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Savings Mobilization and Financial Development during the Multicurrency Regime Period in Zimbabwe.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2017)

This paper seeks to investigate the relationship between savings and financial development in Zimbabwe using both autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and vector error correction model (VECM) approaches for comparison ...
Scaling up innovation: does research and development have a role to play in economic growth? A case of Hungary.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Inderscience, 2017)

The study investigated the impact of research and development expenditure on economic growth in Hungary using annual time series data ranging between 1996 and 2013. Abundant literature is available which shows that research ...
Socially responsible investment and financial performance: evidence from the Johannesburg securities exchange

Mutezo, Ashley Teedzwi (Business Perspectives, 2014)

Socially responsible investment (SRI) is fast becoming one of the major considerations for investors across the world. Both corporate and individual investors use the SRI index of organizations to make investment decisions. ...
The source of investment cash flow sensitivity in manufacturing firms: is it asymmetric information or agency costs?

Makina, Daniel; Wale, Letenah Ejigu (University of Pretoria, 2016)

In the literature, positive investment cash flow sensitivity is attributed to either asymmetric information induced financing constraints or the agency costs of free cash flow. Using data from a sample of 68 manufacturing ...
Stock market and foreign direct investment in Zimbabwe.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2014)

This study investigates the causality relationship between stock market and foreign direct investment. The subject has been contentious in recent years with three theoretical rationales emerging. The first being that FDI ...
Stock market development foreign capital inflows and economic growth in Zimbabwe: a multivariate causality test

Odhiambo NM; Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (2012)
Success factors for exporting industrial products. The view points of major South African manufacturers

Wiid, Jan (2012)
Survival strategies for SMES in hyperinflationary environments: lessons from SMES in Harare Central Business District.

Chisasa, Joseph (Virtus Interpress, 2013)

Lack of credit led to the failure of many Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe from 2005 to 2009 when inflation peaked at 231 million percent. The article attempted to determine how SMEs survived during this ...
Teaching and cognitive presences: The mediating effect of social presence in a developing world context

Maré, Sune; Mutezo, Ashley Teedzwi (Taylor & Francis, 2023-02-01)

Online learning has become a significant trend in education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Online educators, course designers and institutions need to understand the importance of social presence in the dynamics of a community ...
Towards a unit standard for finance for non-financial managers

Marx, Johan (2007)

This paper addresses the issue of whether the University of South Africa (Unisa) could offer a course in Finance for Non-financial Managers by distance education only, or whether such a course would have to use a blended ...
Towards developing guiding principles for managing operational risk appetite

Young, Jacobus (Virtus Interpress, 2010)

This study investigates the effect of two-tier board characteristics, audit committee, and external auditors on earnings management in China. This study contributes to the empirical literature of corporate governance in ...
Trade openness and FDI in Zimbabwe: what does data tell us?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2015)

The study focus on the causal relation between trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Zimbabwe. The choice for the country came about due to the consideration that such an area on trade openness and FDI has ...
Trends in credit to smallholder farmers in South Africa

Chisasa, Joseph; Makina, Daniel (Clute Institute, 2012)

Access to credit for smallholder farmers remains a challenge in most developing countries. This paper examines the trend and pattern of bank credit to smallholder farmers in South Africa, both before and after the attainment ...
The use of Key Risk Indicators by banks as an operational risk management tool: A South African perspective

Young, Jacobus (Young, J. 2012. The use of Key Risk Indicators by banks as an operational risk management tool: A South African perspective, Corporate Ownership & Control, vol. 9, issue 3, pp, 2012)

The use of key risk indicators as a management tool is one of the requirements for the calculation of a bank’s operational risk capital charge. This article provides insight into the use of key risk indicators as an ...
Value-adding Activities of Operational Risk Management Methodologies: A South African Perspective

Young, Jacobus (Association of Southern African Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management (ASSADPAM), 2019)

Operational risk management forms a crucial part of management and since the early 1990s this practice has escalated rapidly due to various reasons, such as an increase in the regulatory requirements and risk-related ...
Working capital management and corporate profitibility of listed companies in South Africa

Ngwenya, Sam (2010)

Working capital management plays a significant role in creating value for shareholders. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between working capital management and profitability of companies ...

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