"Southern Africa's maritime interests are considerable: its oceans and ports are essential to the wealth of the region, are crucial for trade and are an important source of employment, food and energy. However, regional governments do not place sufficient attention on the Blue Economy and its...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cases and Issues -- Figures, Tables and Plates -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1: Perspectives on Cultural Tourism -- 1. Introduction / Manwa, Haretsebe / Moswete, Naomi / Saarinen, Jarkko -- 2. Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: The Role of Local...

This study investigates the association between infrastructure development in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to southern Africa, using a propensity score matching-difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) regression. The empirical examination is based...

This paper examines the key determinants of firm growth in three Southern African countries of Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia and assesses whether exporting activity and use of information communication technology play any role in growth of the firms. The paper uses data collected by the World...

1. Gender and livestock : key issues, challenges and opportunities / Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga -- 2. Collecting and analysing data on intra-household livestock ownership, management and marketing / Jemimah Njuki, Elizabeth Waithanji and Samuel Mburu -- 3. Gender and ownership of...

In addition to performing their basic fiscal functions, governments in developing economies are constantly challenged by new and re-emerging socioeconomic issues such as insecurity, hunger, natural disaster, collapsing infrastructure and disease outbreaks. These piles of challenges have made the...

Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries are under pressure to commit themselves to sustainable environmental activities. This study employed data from 2007 to 2021 using quantile regression to determine the heterogenous effects of industrialisation on environmental degradation in SACU...