The mobilisation of domestic savings has remained a thriving issue in discussions of ways and means of harnessing resources for development in Africa. This work attempts to examine the role of a deliberate policy of extending offices of banks to the rural areas in savings mobilisation efforts....

In recent years, most developing countries have embarked on some kind of reform programme. At the heart of such programmes are orthodox demand management policies aimed at reducing inflation, relieving the pressure on the balance of payments and improving the level of output in the long term....

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between commercial bank lending and business cycle in South Africa. This paper attempts to know whether commercial bank lending in South Africa is procyclical. Design/methodology/approach: The model assumed that the lending behaviour is...

The global financial crisis hit the economies of most commodities exporting countries of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) mainly through trade and commodities prices collapse. Theoretical and empirical literature postulates debilitating effects of these on growth, poverty and sustainable development...

The study tests the policy irrelevance proposition in the inflation targeting monetary policy environment in South Africa, as well as in the context of a dichotomy between anticipated and unanticipated policy shocks. Findings from estimates of monetary policy reaction function confirmed that an...

The Botswana banking system has witnessed substantial deregulation in the past three decades with the entry of foreign banks, mergers and acquisitions in the banking system and policy aimed at deregulating interest rates by moving towards more market determined interest rates. These measures...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the existence of critical tipping points for explanatory variables (age, government grants, education and household size) – in particular, household debt service-to-income on multidimensional poverty. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies...