The study examined factors that influence credit extension to the private sector in South Africa between 1990 and 2021. Over the past two decades, South Africa has experienced changes in macroeconomic conditions and ...
The study investigated the effect of value-added tax on economic growth in South Africa using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds tests approach for cointegration for the period 1991 to 2020. The results of ...
The study examined the macroeconomic determinants of domestic private investment in South Africa, Botswana and Malawi for the period from 1980 to 2018, as well as the causal relationship between domestic private investment ...
Studies explaining international the impacts of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on trade flows in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are sparse. The available research indicates that inter-regional trade in SSA is limited because ...
Rural poverty, underemployment and labour migration have continued to increase in
recent years, reinforcing the importance of non-farm economic activities for rural
households. Rural non-farm activities are an important ...
South Africa is a country that depends heavily on coal to produce energy. With the global outcry
to address climate change challenges, a shift to renewable energy sources is critical. The change
from large carbon ...
The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on employment in Nigeria from 1970 to 2018. Globalization has encouraged FDI flows, and this has enhanced economic growth and ...
This article investigates silver price as a fluctuating commodity price since the financial crisis of 2007-2009. In this regard, a structural vector autoregression (VAR) was applied to observe the sensitivity of the silver ...
The cost of quality consists of cost of conformance and cost of non-conformance referred
to as cost of poor quality. To simplify, cost of quality equals to cost of conformance plus
cost of poor quality and in this study ...
This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana. The assessment is made by using pooled data and two stage least squares. The exposition builds ...
The purpose of this study is to complement extant literature by examining how mobile money innovations can moderate the unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan ...
The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 ...
The present study investigates the nexus between health performance dynamics and economic growth in 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2018. Four health performance dynamics are used, notably: total ...
This study assesses the importance of military expenditure in moderating the role of insecurity dynamics on tourist arrivals or international tourism in 163 countries. It is framed to assess how the future of international ...
This study complements the extant literature by assessing economic sector and globalization channels for gender economic inclusion. The study is focused on 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1995-2019 and ...
The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts ...
The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on female unemployment levels. The study focuses on 44 countries in ...
Traffic congestion is a challenge in cities around the world, and is generated by the significant growth in vehicle ownership and rapid urbanisation. In South Africa, it has become problematic for road transport users, and ...
The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of ...
This study investigates the dynamic causality linkages between fiscal deficits and selected macroeconomic indicators in a panel of five East African countries. The research design is based on panel cointegration tests, ...