This thesis investigated the determinants of financial inclusion with the emphasis on
social networks in selected African countries, namely, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Kenya, Eswatini and South Africa. Many ...
The study aims to investigate how FDI impacts the economic growth of Ethiopia. To investigate this major research problem, it sets four interrelated objectives. The first objective aims to investigate the pattern of FDI ...
The main objective of this study was to test if the applicability of known capital structure theories holds water in abnormal economic environments, in particular, in Zimbabwe. Using secondary data collected for listed ...
The purpose of this research study was to examine the impact of institutional
constraints, management competencies, strategic and structural constraints on the
performance of black-owned small, medium and micro-sized ...
This study is environmental in nature, occurring within a series of nested frameworks, namely school role players, sustainable development and greening schools. From a South African context, the day-to-day operations of ...
The study highlights the significance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the
Southern African Development Community (SADC) economies. The first objective
focuses on analysing the SADC investment policies pertaining ...
This paper investigates the effects of wealth taxes on the South African economy by analysing the
relationship between wealth taxes and the gross domestic product (GDP). It considers the Engle and
Granger cointegration ...
Literature posits that numerous economic and institutional factors limit the amount of taxes that a
country can raise. Against this background, the substantive aim of this study was to assess the
determinants of tax ...
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 ...
The aim of this thesis was to analyse and compare tax morale and its determinants in South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as in Zimbabwe in different economic environments. The study applied the standard models of tax evasion, ...
This study investigates the convergence in transport infrastructure for 102 countries spanning 1990-2018 using Phillips and Sul econometric methodology. We constructed a transportation infrastructure by a composite index ...
In this paper we examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Botswana during the period 1980-2016. We disaggregate energy consumption into six components, namely: total energy consumption, ...
Oil plays a pivotal role in the growth of agriculture as a combustion lubricant for machineries and
equipment used in the farming enterprise. Several studies have shown that a relationship exists
between oil prices and ...
Purpose
The purpose of the research was firstly, to determine the competencies required of
risk managers and secondly, to consider the implications of such competencies in
determining possible modules for inclusion in ...
The purpose of this study is to assess the nexus between governance and renewable energy
consumption in sub-Saharan Africa. The focus is on 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with
data from 1996 to 2016. The empirical ...
More time series forecasting methods were researched and made available in recent
years. This is mainly due to the emergence of machine learning methods which also
found applicability in time series forecasting. The ...
The avoidability, or unavoidability of patterns in words over finite alphabets has
been studied extensively. The word α over a finite set A is said to be unavoidable
for an infinite set B+ of nonempty words over a finite ...
This study complements the extant literature by assessing how enhancing supply factors of
mobile technologies affect mobile money innovations for financial inclusion in developing
countries. The mobile money innovation ...
There are different views about the availability of non-renewable resources in the long run.
Hotelling’s (1931) seminal model of exhaustible resources greatly influenced subsequent
studies. Hotelling’s and related ...
The informal sector has emerged as an important sector in Africa where many countries are striving to attain Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 8 on decent work and economic growth. The presence of a growing number ...