The proliferation of digital devices and services has fundamentally changed customers’ shopping behaviour and has occasioned a new type of retailing called omnichannel retailing. Omnichannel retailing requires retailers ...
Corporate tax systems of developing countries can potentially be contributors or
impediments to their economic development. This is especially relevant for Southern
Africa and, as such, the Southern African Development ...
South Africa has consistently attempted to increase its export base to increase its market share and increase its trading partners in other parts of the world. This is done in an effort to grow the economy and with the ...
Despite policy measures aimed at improving the performance of commercial banks
and their contribution to economic growth, little progress has been made in reviving
the Zimbabwean economy. The effective function of banking ...
Parental financial socialisation is becoming increasingly important globally, due to low levels of financial literacy amongst young adults, especially those in developing countries, rural and low-income areas, and black ...
South African municipalities are experiencing a deterioration in municipal financial performance in addition to proliferated unlawful expenditure. Good municipal financial performance is imperative for social development ...
This study investigates the effect of globalisation on governance in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2019, with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins ...
In this study we re-examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in 27 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during the period 1990–2019. Unlike some previous studies, we clustered SSA ...
In this study, the key determinants of tourism development in three study countries – South Africa, Brazil and Vietnam – have been examined for the period from 1995 to 2018. Despite the growing empirical literature on the ...
This study has empirically investigated the impact of bank development on unemployment in Kenya, based on time-series data spanning from 1991 to 2019. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach, the results of the study have ...
The main focus of this research is on the application of machine learning in solving problems that have not been solved by the advancement in process simulation and automation tools in the process industry. These problems ...
In this paper, the impact of stock market development on unemployment in South Africa has been empirically examined using time-series data from 1980 to 2019. The study was motivated by the high level of structural unemployment ...
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 ...