The purpose of this study is to analyze the determinant of economic growth in the region of East African countries from 2002 to 2018. In order to investigate empirically the key determinants of economic growth in East African countries, this study used a dynamic panel model. To improve...

The liberalization of economies is aimed at boosting domestic growth through foreign investment and trade. The proponents of liberalization argue that opening up markets in developing economies provides access to capital to enhance production. However, proponents of the pollution haven...

Sectors are the engines of economic growth in any economy making inter-sectoral linkages the most significant target for development practitioners and policymakers. This study examines and ascertains the magnitude of production and consumption inter-sectoral linkages in Uganda's economy....

As a result of the failure to meet tax collection targets, policymakers, economists, and financiers have focused their attention in recent years on how a country's tax effort has been employed to combat tax evasion and maximise tax collections for economic growth. The study looked at the nexus...

The current study aims to analyze the factors influencing ASEAN economic growth and integration. Specifically, the variables of inter-regional trade, human resource development, and corruption were investigated in six lower-middle-income countries from 1996 to 2019 through Driscoll and Kraay's,...

This study examines the nature of relationship between public debt and economic growth of Ethiopia. To this end, a time series data was collected over the period 1982-2018. Nonlinear ARDL and multiple thresholds nonlinear ARDL models were used to uncover whether the relationship between debt and...

This study examines the relationship between income inequality and economic growth in South Africa for the period 1989 to 2018. The study is motivated by the high disparity in income inequality and stagnant economic growth that South Africa is experiencing. Using the autoregressive distributed...

This study surveys and synthesizes the literature on foreign and domestic private investment over the period 1980-2022 with evidence from developing and emerging economies. The documentary sources method was used to examine one hundred and forty (140) peer-reviewed articles (selected based on...

Our paper examines the triangular relationships between energy consumption, trade openness and economic growth of 45 countries from 1991 to 2014 using dynamic seemingly unrelated regression (DSUR) models. We confirm a bidirectional relationship among energy consumption and income, trade openness...

The paper investigated the dynamic and causal relationship among corruption, foreign direct investment, and economic growth simultaneously, a largely overlooked area in empirical studies, using a dataset from Ghana. It is among the few studies that explore the confluence of these variables and...