In this study, we investigate the impact of tourism on financial development in Kenya using time series data from 1995 to 2017. The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach to cointegration ...
South Africa has relatively low saving and investment rates compared to other upper middle-income countries. In addition, limited information is available on the magnitude of the correlation between these variables. The ...
The focus of the study was to investigate the relationship between liquidity risk, financial leverage and firm’s financial performance with evidence from top-40 JSE firms. Despite the existing literature on the topic, no ...
The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including the government, policymakers, policyholders, and investors. In Kenya, there have been relatively few ...
While a significant portion of the global population remains financially excluded, most empirical studies and policy interventions for increasing financial inclusion appear to focus predominantly on supply-side determinants ...
Health insurance is predicted to increase healthcare utilisation, lower out-of-pocket health spending, and improve household health and productivity. This thesis aimed to assess the effects of Ghana’s National Health ...
In this paper, the dynamic relationship between ICT, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is examined during the period 2004-2014. Three ICT and three income inequality indicators ...
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 establishes economic growth needed for supply-side mobile money drivers in developing countries to be positively related to mobile money innovations in the perspectives of mobile money accounts, the mobile phone ...
In this study, nexuses between governance and natural resource rents are assessed in 44 sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 1996-2016. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions. The findings ...
Compared to other regions of the world, the potential for information technology penetration in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is very high. Unfortunately, productivity levels in the region are also very low. This study investigates ...
This study focuses on linkages between bank accounts and supply-side mobile money drivers for mobile money innovations. It seeks to understand how bank accounts can be complemented with mobile subscription and mobile ...
The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa with particular emphasis on income levels (Middle income versus Low income countries) and legal origins ...
This research assesses the importance of financial access on value added in three economic sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised ...
The main aim of the study was to determine the relationship between working capital management and the financial performance of South African retail firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The study examined the ...
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 ...
There has been an on-going debate on the relationship between bank credit and
agricultural output, especially in developing countries. Several studies conducted have
mainly found that credit has a significant positive ...
This study investigates the relevance of inclusive education in moderating the effect of good governance on female economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa. First, inclusive tertiary education modulates: (i) government ...
In this study, the impact of tourism development on poverty alleviation is examined using panel data from 32 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during the period 2005-2014. Two indicators of tourism development are used, ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces substantial development funding gaps and significant socio-economic challenges. To overcome these funding gaps and achieve the many developmental goals, many SSA countries rely on external ...