Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the nexus between governance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach: The focus is on 44 countries in SSA with data from 1996 to 2016. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions....

In this article we examine the dynamic causal relationship between economic growth, employment, and poverty reduction in South Africa – using the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure. The study attempts to answer one critical question: does economic growth in...

This paper examines the dynamic impact of interest ratereforms on economic growth in Zambia—using two models in a stepwisefashion. In the first model, the efficacy of interest rate liberalization isexamined by regressing the interest rate on the level of financial deepening.In the second...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the short- and long-run relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a panel-based autoregressive distributed lag approach to cointegration to investigate this relationship in 12 advanced,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the macroeconomic drivers of stock market development in Hong Kong during the period 1992Q4-2016Q3. Specifically, it investigates the impact of banking sector development, economic growth, inflation rate, exchange rate, trade openness and stock...