This paper sheds light on the magnitude of income elasticity of health care expenditure in Africa. The existing literature has to date focused on developed countries due to scarcity of health expenditure data in developing countries. We here exploit panel data techniques that combine time-series...

Using quarterly data over the period 1999Q1-2012Q1, this paper finds that the current account dynamics of Mauritius are adequately portrayed by a three-regime self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) model that leads to two current account equilibria, namely a high deficit of 9% and a low...

Mauritius is highly regarded in Africa for its sound governance structures, attractive business climate and promotion of gender equity. Based on data from the Household Budget Survey 2001/02, the present paper investigates gender pay discrimination in Mauritius a decade ago at the mean and at...

This paper estimates a semi-multivariate dynamic model of Mauritian inflation, using monthly data over the period January 1976 - December 2001, which captures the significant nonlinearity and asymmetry present in the inflation process. Starting from a linear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)...

Through the use of regime-switching models, recent empirical research has essentially demonstrated that the dynamics of stock returns depend on the state of one stock market. The present paper extends this analytical framework by allowing the dynamics of returns to depend on the joint-states of...

This paper tests for convergence in relative per capita electric power consumption for 22 African countries, covering the period 1971-2002. Parametric techniques which are regressions and unit root tests are used. Neoclassical convergence hypothesis such as the beta-convergence is rejected while...