ABSTRACT Governments all over the world, specifically, Sub-Saharan African countries aim to attain economic growth and sustainable development. Economic growth is often financed with tax revenue. However, governments are not able to mobilize adequate tax revenue as a result of tax non-compliance. Previous research on tax compliance found that both economic and non-economic factors influence tax payment propensity. In recent times, studies focus on noneconomic factors because they offer a bet...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of foreign capital in entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. To do this, data were collected through questionnaires and literature review. The data were presented in table as frequency distribution and analysed with frequencies and percentage. Having analysed the data, the following are the major findings Multilateral organization, foreign government and private investors provide foreign capital for entrepreneurship dev...
Abstract: This study focused on the examining the effects of politics trade in East African Community (EAC) trade and economic integration, with the European Union (EU) examined as setting the pace and can be used as a model in helping other regions to achieve a robust Regional Economic Integration. Regional Economic Integration has enabled countries to focus on issues that are relevant to their state development in many African countries, as well as encourage trade between neighbors. The fo...
ABSTRACT Developing countries like Zimbabwe in the last decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the NGO sector in social, economic and political spheres. NGOs are non-profit agencies who are devoted to uplift the lives of the poor, underprivileged and marginalized areas and have gained a very high status as the leading practitioners of development in many African communities. Community development entails the provision of infrastructural facilities to enhance the lives of the people...
Agriculture accounts for a lot of land use in most of the developing countries; hence it is probably the single most powerful influence on environmental quality. Agriculture remains the principal livelihood of the rural poor (Malik, 1999). Agriculture has been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. Agriculture is very vital to society. It helps to alleviate poverty, provide food security and economic growth. It is the backbone of many African economies especially Ghana (World Development ...
This is work contains just proposal foe chapter 1 to 3. This section briefly describes the commercial banks in the country and provides a general overview of the role of commercial banks in a country, thus setting out the context for the study. It review relevant literature and develops an analytical framework in order to assess whether or not the commercial banking sector in Liberia is making a difference.Delivering quality service to customers is a must for success and survival in today’s...
Abstract: On 7th July 2000, the East African Community Treaty entered into force. Inherent in the Treaty was a call for the contracting member states to establish among themselves certain frameworks that were deemed necessary pre-requisites to boosting the much-desired intra-regional trade. Among these necessary pre-requisites was the Common Market Protocol (CMP), which came into force on 1st July 2010. Almost a decade since its establishment, there is lack of targeted literature comparing t...
ABSTRACT Agriculture remains the mainstay of the African economy as an engine of economic growth and development where 88% of the continent’s populations living in rural areas earn their livelihood from agriculture (Ndambi 2008). Also 80% of Uganda’s cultivated land area falls under subsistence form of agriculture (Kalyebara 2005). It is this phenomenon that prompted a research study whose intention was to investigate the implications of subsistence farming in the natural environment, the...
The objective of regional integration is the attainment of long-run economic growth for membercountries. Private investments are decisive in attaining this objective, given the high dependence ofEAC member states on state-owned investment. This has been attributed to the economic policiesimplemented by the government which favors state-owned investment. Further, existing empiricalstudies have been unable to determine whether trade liberalization advances or obstructs theaccumulation of privat...
ABSTRACT Foreign Direct Investment as a means of economic growth has been welcomed by most East African nations including Burundi. Considerable liberalization of the prevalent investment regulations has been undertaken to facilitate the smooth flow of FDI. A welcoming investment climate depends of the quality of national laws, foreign investment laws, policies and the international investment legal framework which very are important in attracting FDI to a large number of countries, Burundi i...
Abstract The Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) is Uganda's principal stock exchange. It was founded in June 1997. The USE is operated under the jurisdiction of Uganda's Capital Markets Authority, which in turn reports to Uganda's central bank, the Bank of Uganda. The shareholders of the USE constitute brokers/ dealers and investment advisers as stated in The Capital Markets Authority Digest. "What is the Uganda Security Exchange?" pp 2. The process of achieving sustainable securities exchange ...
ABSTRACT The incidence of cross-country per capita income convergence has been debated for long by economists; all in the attempt to either validate or reject the per capita income convergence hypothesis as predicted by the Human capital - augmented Solow model (HC-ASM). However, researchers seem to have given little attention to the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) region in this ongoing discourse despite the wide per capita income disparity gap in the region. Using panel da...
ABSTRACT Developing countries all over the world have come to realize the importance of FDI as an important source of economic growth and invariably welfare improvement. This is because it supplements domestic investment and brings positive spillover effects which are vital in economic development. As a result, developing countries including countries in SSA are now pursuing economic policies explicitly intended to improve conditions to attract FDI and to maximize its benefits. This study emp...
ABSTRACT The current structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. After independence around 1960, African countries started with high hopes for rapid growth and development. Whereas the initial performance was remarkable, economic development slowed in the 1970s and stagnated in the 1980s. In response, the states’ attempts to reinvigorate economic growth through state-led investments and import substitution industrialisation strategies were unsuccessful. The W...
ABSTRACT The paper was set to examine the relationship between different aspects of service trade and non oil export in Nigeria as well as assess the impact of capacity development on value of service trade and the implications for improving value of non oil export in Nigeria. Secondary data 1980 to 2010 were used. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis. Results show that total service trade value in Nigeria has increased from $1126.59 mi...