The study sought to investigate the nature and operations of street food vendors including socio-economic features influencing street food vending spatial distribution and its impact on the local environment and urban life within the context of sustainable development. Data were collected...

The study investigated the major determinants of married women?s land rights under the fast track land reform programme, 2000-2002 in A1 resettlement areas in Zimbabwe using econometric analysis on national baseline survey. Case data collected in Goromonzi District through in-depth interviews,...

Electrical consumption is increasing rapidly in Malaysia due to the sustenance of a modern economy way of living. Recently, the Vice Chancellor of University Technology MARA, Tan Sri Dato? Professor Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar has shown a great deal of concern regarding the high electrical...

This paper investigated the relationship between expected inflation and nominal interest rates in Nigeria and the extent to which the Fisher effect hypothesis holds, for the period 1970-2012. We attempted to advance the field by testing the traditional closed-economy Fisher hypothesis and an...

Informal businesses have decorated the streets of Harare and have become an increasingly visible and disruptive locus of conflict between the government?s efforts to maintain public order on one hand and the citizens? efforts to generate income on the other. This study sought to investigate the...

The study sought to examine how street vendors were coping with informality and illegality in metropolitan Harare. Data collection techniques included in-depth personal interviews, direct observations and documentary reviews. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect socio-economic and...

This study models the impact of mother’s age at first birth on child health at birth in Cameroon. The objectives are: (1) investigate the implication of mother’s age at first birth on child health at birth; (2) examine the impact of mother’s age groups on birth weight, and...

This paper analysed the relative impacts of health and education on economic development in Southern Africa. A set of cross country panel data from 11 countries over the period 2005 - 2011 was used in the study. The econometric procedure adopted in the analysis followed the Breusch and Pagan...

Educated youth unemployment is crucial issue for developing countries. The social and economic costs of unemployment at individual, household and national level are universal. But there are few studies on unemployment duration when the individuals start jobs and its determinants in developing...

This paper investigates the impact of demographic factors like age, income, dependency ratio, education of males and females and the economic factor of financial depth on household savings in Pakistan. The results were obtained for time series data of 1975-2008 by applying cointegration...