The objective of the study was to assess financial access as a challenge to SMEs in tourism and in rural areas. The focus was on the relationships between financial access and its determinants, such as, information asymmetry, ...

Considerable progress has been made globally with regard to the poverty question. The greatest reduction in poverty has been in China where millions have been moved out of poverty and this has been due to China’s impressive ...

This research analyses the statistical relationship between income distribution and seven taxation and government expenditure components in Namibia using data from 1996-2016. The research is aimed at creating new knowledge ...

Knowledge of the many influences that affect purchasing preferences is important for marketers o Apart from the technical and economic factors of importance, non- economic factors are also significanto The latter have ...

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 ...

Capital structure has been a subject of debate for a number of decades. Extensive research explaining various theories of capital structure can be found. The most notable theories are the Modigliani and Miller capital ...

This study attempts to analyse the key FDI determinants in African countries using annual data for the period from 2003 to 2015. It firstly, gives the introduction and the background of FDI. Secondly, it provides both ...

Despite the meaningful impact that credit ratings have on sovereign countries and financial markets, research has not fully explored the determinants of these ratings in many emerging markets (EMs). The aim of this ...

Many concrete problems may be cast in a multi-objective optimisation framework. The redundancy of existing methods for solving multi-objective programming problems susceptible to inconsistencies, coupled with the necessity ...

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 ...