ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to contrast bank performance measures and propose a single measure of performance for commercial banks in the East African Community (EAC) region. The study is in two major parts and addressed four main objectives. The first part analysed the various performance measures that have been applied by banks which include Return on Equity (RoE), Return on Assets (RoA), Net Interest Margin (NIM), Profit Margin (PM), efficiency, effectiveness and explored the ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at assessing East Africa Community (EAC) economic integration and socio- economic development in Kenya .The study was guided by the following objectives: The Challenges faced by Kenya in its involvement in regional economic integration, to determine economic integration influence on socio-economic development in Kenya and to find out Benefits for Kenya in the full economic integration of EAC The study used descriptive research design. The researcher selected 88 respon...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at assessing East Africa Community (EAC) economic integration and soclo- economic development in Kenya .The study was guided by the following objectives: The Challenges faced by Kenya in its involvement in regional economic integration, to determine economic integration influence on socio-economic development in Kenya and to find out Benefits for Kenya in the full economic integration of EAC The study used descriptive research design. The researcher selected 88 respon...
ABSTRACT This thesis is made up of three stand-alone empirical chapters that examine the relationship among financial inclusion, monetary policy, financial sector development and financial regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter two presents an overview of financial inclusion, monetary policy, financial sector development and financial regulation in Sub-Sahara Africa. The overview show that Sub-Saharan Africa stock markets are comparatively young undercapitalized and they are not liquid. Ne...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the effects of the East African Community to the Tanzanian Domestic Market: A case study of the Common Market Protocol. The study sought to achieve the following specific objectives, assessing the effects of the East African Common Market Protocol on Tanzanian Domestic Market, examining the economic relationship between the East African Community member states based on domestic market, Scrutinizing whether the Tanzanian Domestic Market benefited from the ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Liberia. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach to cointegration was used with annual data from IMF Statistics 2009 CD ROM, WDI. Capital was disaggregated into foreign direct investment and domestic private investment for a more comparative analysis of their impacts on economic growth. Economic growth was measured by real GDP, Foreign Direct investment (FDI) was measured by Net FDI...
ABSTRACT Terrorism is one of the greatest security threats to many West African states currently. For instance, in the Lake Chad Basin area, Nigeria and other states are aggressively fighting the Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militants. Westward toward the Sahara is another group of five states, the G5 Sahel Group, also fiercely fighting incessant violence by jihadist groups affiliated to al Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, rat...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on collective governance in addressing African problems using the Ezulwini consensus as a case study of collective governance. Citing reasons for the call for United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms, examining the feasibility of collective governance in addressing African problems, discussing the role of the international community in helping Africa to achieve the Ezulwini consensus goal, evaluating challenges faced by collective governance or the Ezulwini ...
ABSTRACT This research work investigates the impact of banks’ credit on the growth of Nigerian economy between 1981 and 2012. The study was needed due to the central role which the deposit money banks’ credits play in the economic, financial and social development and growth of the economy. The study made use of secondary data in its analysis. Four explanatory variables (Credit to Other Sectors, Credit to Service Sector, Credit to Production Sector, and Credit to General Commercial Se...
ABSTRACT A booming interest on the topic of Diaspora remittances has developed over the past few years on the part ofacademics, donors, international financial institutions, commercial banks, money transfer operators, microfinance institutions, andpolicy makers, The surge of remittances to countries of origin in the last two decades, exceeding aid and foreiqn direct investment (FDI) to developing countries, has reignited debate on their development potential in receiving countries. Alongside...
ABSTRACT The inspiration for the creation of ECOWAS came from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), which had divided Africa earlier in the1960s into regions for purposes of economic development. The ECOWAS Treaty seeks to establish an economic and monetary union based on the removal of duties and equivalent taxes, the adoption of a common external tariff, and a harmonization of economic and sectoral policies. In 1993, ECOWAS revised its Treaty to introduce among other me...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of economic growth and international trade openness on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen oxide (N2O) and the fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions. It also examines whether the trade-induced emissions originate from countries‟ relative factor endowment or/and environmental regulations using panel data for 18 African countries, spanning from 1990 to 2014 and the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) estimation technique. The results indic...
Abstract: This special issue was organised in the context of the 22nd meeting of the Association of African Insect Scientists (AAIS), in Wad Medani, Sudan in 2017. The aim was to ‘support impactful research that will yield genuine edible insects products and sustain value chains that enhance food and nutritional security and support sustained livelihoods in Africa’. The issue is composed of contributions from the following countries: Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Nigeria,Mali, Burkina Faso, Ca...
Abstract. This study makes an empirical case that the level of sensitivity of economic growth to political and economic institutional reforms in Nigeria matters for sustained and sustainable economic performance both in the short, medium and long term. We first document the empirical evidence that successive regimes in Nigeria were indifferent to the impact of institutional reforms on economic growth. Several regimes both military and civilian pursued time bound and ambitious economic goals...
Abstract In Africa, several empirical studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have mainly focused on why they occur and not on their likely impact on macroeconomic indicators. Mergers and Acquisitions are major corporate actions but these raise imperative concerns about labour employment. The objective of this study therefore is to empirically test the impact of M&A on employment in Africa using annual time series and cross-sectional data of 14 African countries from 1990 to 2010. The study...