The purpose of this article is to take the lead and investigate value-added tax (VAT) revenue and economic growth in Southern Africa, especially referring to the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The objective ...
The causal relationship between urbanisation, energy consumption, and economic growth was examined for South Africa using annual data from 1990 -2021. The growing need for economies to bounce back after the COVID-19 pandemic ...
This study examined the causal relationship between ICT, income inequality and economic growth in South Africa using data from 1990 to 2021. Three measures of ICT were used in the study, namely fixed telephone lines ...
Purpose: In this study, the impact of access to electricity on poverty reduction is examined using annual data from 1990 to 2021 for Botswana. The study was motivated by the need to establish if access to electricity could ...
This article provides a comprehensive chronological analysis of Uganda's inflation performance and policy reforms aimed at reducing inflation and stabilising the economy from 1970 to 2021. The impetus for this article lies ...
This study examines the inflation dynamics in Rwanda from the 1970s to 2021, focusing on policies, trends, challenges, and opportunities in managing inflation. Secondary data sources were used for analysis. The findings ...
This paper undertakes an exploratory examination of inflation dynamics in Kenya between 1970 and 2021, employing a descriptive research design and secondary data from various sources, coupled with qualitative analysis of ...
This study assesses the relevance of foreign aid in the incidence of capital flight on unemployment in 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The study is for the period 1996-2018, and the empirical evidence is based on ...
The development of various service quality models has been well researched, but they still need to be applied at a rural accommodation establishment in Lesotho is still lacking. Although there is consensus that service ...
This study empirically investigates the aid-growth nexus in 51 African countries composed of 25 low-income and 26 middle-income countries during the period 2000-2017. Within the context of the current changing global aid ...
This study empirically investigates the impact of financial inclusion on financial stability of the banking sector across 37 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using country level data from 2005 to 2019. The financial ...
Most countries, including the ones in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), have been facing
pressure to increase the stringency of bank regulation since the aftermath of the
2007-2008 global financial crisis. Therefore, this study ...
Increased world trade has enhanced competition between manufacturers globally across countries. However, over the past 20 years, the manufacturing industry's share in South Africa's GDP, employment, and exports has been ...
In this study, the causal relationship between remittances, fertility and unemployment in South Africa is re-examined using annual data from 1990 to 2020. The study was motivated by the need to reconsider the nature of ...
This study investigated the impact of remittances on the nominal exchange rate in Kenya, using annual time series data from 1980 to 2020. The study was motivated by the need to find out how remittances affect the exchange ...
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 ...
Attempts to redress the dispossession of native South Africans from their land by colonialists have had many setbacks mainly as a result of inadequate post-settlement support to beneficiary farmers. Despite the implementation ...
Due to Ethiopia’s youth bulge and the formal economy’s inability to accommodate new job entrants, the youth of income-earning ages are compelled to work in the informal sector. The main purpose of this study was to examine ...
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 ...