The introduction of AGOA has also created an opportunity for the export of additional products like textile and apparel as well as leather products. Ethiopia’s utilization of the opportunity is still too low to claim the realization of AGOA’s objective of bringing economic growth and development as well as integration to the regional and global economy satisfactorily. In terms of utilization of the AGOA’s opportunity, there is a lack of diversity across sectors: the textile and leather ...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title page i Certificationii Dedicationiii Acknowledgment iv Table of contentsv CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction to the study1 1.1 Statement of the problem3 1.2 Purpose of the study4 1.3 Scope of the study5 1.4 Justification of the study6 1.5 Methodology 7 CHAPTER TWO Literature review 8 CHAPTER THREE Analysis of Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night 14 CHAPTER FOUR A...
Abstract This study investigated the impact of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2015. Time series data on external debt stock and external debt service payment was used to capture external debt burden. Other variables such as exchange rate and Foreign Direct Investment where employed. The study set out to test for both long-run and causal relationship between eternal debt and economic growth in Nigeria. The Multi Linear Regression Method was used, and the techni...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Ghana using annual data for the period 1971 to 2010 by employing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The study found a cointegrating relationship among the variables when real GDP was used as the dependent variable and no cointegrating relationship among the variables when electricity consumption was used as the dependent variable. The bounds test results revealed ...
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Abstract Financial innovations are considered important factors in the development of the financial sector and economic growth. Following the 2007/2008 financial crisis, their effects, both positive and negative, have become an issue of considerable debate, especially in industrialised countries. While a number of empirical studies on the effects of financial innovation have been undertaken for industrialised countries, few developing country studies exist. This is surprising, given the remar...
This study examined the effects of external debt on Nigeria’s economic growth (2008-2017). As a guide for the study, research hypotheses were stated. The study adopted a longitudinal trend survey method using ex-post factor model. Instrument for the study was secondary data gotten from CBN Bulletins and annual reports of several years. Data were collected, coded and analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Analysis from the study revealed that external debt has signif...
INTRODUCTION The growth and development of an economy, depends greatly on how the country’s capital market thrives. The capital market can be an important facilitator of economic growth (Applegarth, 2004). Osaze (2000) is of the view that the capital market drives any economy to growth and development because the long term growth capital formation stems from it. Economic growth in a modern economy hinges on an efficient financial sector that pools domestic savings and mobilizes foreign capi...
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 This study revisits the relationship between external debt and economic growth in Ghana. Using annual data for the period 1986 to 2015, and applying Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and in line with the empirical literature, the study found a statistically significant positive relationship between external debt and economic growth in both the long run and short run for Ghana. The study also revealed that there was adjustment to equilibrium from the short-run. Besides, con...
ABSTRACT This study revisits the relationship between external debt and economic growth in Ghana. Using annual data for the period 1986 to 2015, and applying Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and in line with the empirical literature, the study found a statistically significant positive relationship between external debt and economic growth in both the long run and short run for Ghana. The study also revealed that there was adjustment to equilibrium from the short-run. Besides, cons...
This research work tries to examine the significance of agriculture production on economic growth in Sierra Leone. It empirically explored the agriculture and economic growth nexus in Sierra Leone. The objective of the study is to examine the place of agriculture in the economic growth and development of Sierra Leone. Using least square method, data collected were secondary data and the durbin-watson t-statistics were used in the regression analysis. The study shows that agriculture productio...
ABSTRACT Successful oil and gas well drilling require hole stabilization. Barite comprised of barium sulphate is a common mineral chiefly used by oil and gas companies in their drilling operations. Barite is used in the drilling fluids to maintain the pressure in the wellbore and prevent intrusion of unwanted fluids from the formation being drilled. Most African countries hold significant reserves of barite but a number of challenges have limited local production resulting in poor quality wh...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATION iiAPPROVAL iiiDEDICATION ivLIST OF ACRONYMS vACKNOWLEDGEMENT ViTABLE OF CONTENTS viiABSTACT xCHAPTER ONE1 .0 Introduction.1 Background of the study1 .2 Statement of the Problem 31.3 Purpose of the Study 31.4 Objectives of the Study .11 .4.1 General objective 41 .4.2 Specific objectives 41.5 Research questions 41 .6 Research hypothesis 41.7 Scope of the study 41 .7.1 Geographical scope 41.7.2 Content scope 51 .7.3 Time scope 51.8 Significance of the Study 51 .9 Con...
ABSTRACT The pivot of this study is that while the prospects of regional interaction and integration for political and economic development in Africa have been well researched, the implications of intercultural communication have not received as much scholarly attention. The expectations and intercultural communication experiences of Kenyans in Ghana were, therefore, examined in order to understand the ways in which the visa-free entry policy, driven by the African Union, might influence the ...