Fundamental business principles are very critical to the growth and survival of the business. Waiting in line or queue causes inconvenience to customers and economic costs to firms. Queuing theory is a mathematical approach to the study of waiting in lines/queues. The study presents the results...

Countries in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), like many other developing nations, face difficulty in raising tax revenue for public purposes. This chapter uses panel data analysis for nineteen countries during 2000-2009 to analyze empirically the determinants of tax...

Many countries, especially developing nations, concentrate on protecting domestic producers by encouraging production of import substitutes and import competing goods. Such a development strategy, coupled with high import duty, target to avoid competition from cheap foreign products and the...

Financial literacy has become a topical issue in recent years. This paper seeks to summarize the growing efforts of financial literacy field in Zimbabwe, with special reference to banks. Financial literacy should be a concern to the government especially the Central Bank, Commercial Banks, other...

Industry and economic growth demand various skills and expertise from the populace. As the industry grows, more specialised skills are required to match and meet the demand. However, in the case when industry growth is declining or when capacity utilisation is low skills level may fail to...

Governments in most developing nations heavily rely on tax revenue to sponsor government expenditure, and Zimbabwe is not an exception. Tax revenue is supposed to be used to grow or develop an economy. This study seeks to analyse the relationship between value-added tax (VAT) and total tax...

What is the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth? This is probably one of the most famous questions in the foreign aid – economic growth debate. Whether this question has been sufficiently answered remains to be known. Developing nations have been and continue to be known to...

The formation of the Libyan Stock Market (LSM) has been greatly affected by instability in the country. The stock market has been active, inactive, active and inactive since its inception in 2006. On the other end, there has been a growing concern and existence of constant pressure to activate...

Zimbabwe like many other developing nations has energy supply that is less than energy demand. This entails prioritization and increased prices economically, however as energy is a basic need, a different approach is called for. The goal of human development needs to be achieved, which has seen...

Corruption is a complex social phenomenon, which in addition to political and economic factors, also has deeply rooted cultural causes and social traditions which largely determine its existence and extent. Corruption itself in a certain sense is as old as human civilization and it occurs...