This study investigates the nexus between key macroeconomic determinants and economic growth in Zambia by employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to test for Granger-causality covering the period 1970–2015. The ...
In this study, the dynamic causal relationship between oil price and economic growth in Kenya has been explored during the period from 1980 to 2015. A trivariate Granger-causality framework that incorporates oil consumption ...
Town planning in Britain originated because of an increase in population; migration from rural areas to expanding cities; work opportunities arising from new industries and machines, all in combination with unhygienic ...
This paper examines the relative contribution of public and private investment to economic growth in Malawi from 1970 to 2014 – using the recently developed autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bounds testing ...
This paper examines the relative impact of public and private investment on economic growth in South Africa during the period from 1970 to 2014. The paper also estimates the crowding effect between the two components of ...
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 study investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth using panel data from 10 European countries. Using a panel ARDL approach, the results show that public debt, government consumption, and the ...
This study investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth in 10 European Countries in the presence of cross-sectional dependency. Using a panel ARDL approach, the results show that public debt and ...
Inflationary tendencies of public debt have been the cause of an unsettling debate among policymakers in Nigeria. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework, this study attempts to investigate the impact of ...
This paper investigates the impact of public debt on inflation in Ghana using annual data during
the period 1983-2018. The study uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing
approach to cointegration and ...
In this paper, we have examined the validity of the PPP hypothesis for two Southern African countries, namely: Lesotho and Zambia. We have utilized four econometric tests to examine the existence of the PPP hypothesis in ...
This study investigates the causal relationship between remittance and poverty in Botswana using time series data from 1980-2017. To improve the robustness of the results, two poverty proxies are used, namely: household ...
In this study, we investigate the impact of remittance inflows on poverty reduction in South Africa, using
time series data from 1980 to 2017. The main objective of this study is to establish if South Africa can
harness ...
This research assesses the relevance of enhancing remittances on value added across economic sectors in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1980 to 2014 using the Generalised Method of Moments. First, no significant net ...
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on three ...
The corporate income tax (CIT) systems in place in developing countries can potentially be contributors or impediments to their economic development. This is especially relevant in the SADC region that has a set agenda ...
This study assesses how globalisation modulates the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using data for the period 2000 to 2012. The empirical ...
This paper examines the governance-“education quality” nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation ...