ABSTRACT This thesis comprises of five chapters with three empirical papers on essays on foreign direct investment (FDI) in SSA. The first empirical paper investigates the geographical determinants of FDI, while controlling for resources, market, efficiency and institutional factors in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) from 2002 to 2016. To achieve this objective, a panel data consisting of a sample of 40 SSA countries was estimated using Hausman-Taylor estimation technique. To check for the robustn...
ABSTRACT The history of mankind in all generation has been a struggle dominated by the need to enhance his material condition either as an individual or as a collectivity. The struggle for material condition has led to the evolution of different types of political systems, which include federalism. Importantly, each state is endowed with different kinds of natural resources, which has engendered development in some states and underdevelopment in others. While scholars have made substantial co...
Towards the acceleration of the attainment of sustainable growth, most countries have focused on agricultural exports as a means of driving their economy. Developing countries of Africa are highly dependent on the agricultural sector and agricultural exports are a major determinant of economic growth of these countries. However, the impact of agricultural exports on economic growth of ECOWAS countries remains unclear. This study therefore evaluates the impact of agricultural exports on the ec...
This study intends to develop a life cycle costing analytical framework for the buildings and construction industry in Tanzania. Life-cycle costing (LCC) analysis is a method used to evaluate the cost effectiveness of designs and materials alternatives of major project cost variables including initial costs, operating costs, maintenance and disposal costs over its entire life (Stanford University, 2005).LCC analysis is used for selection of optimal building designs based on assumed inflation ...
ABSTRACT This is a critical discourse analysis of how ideological domination and power were reproduced in the CNN representations of Africa and Africans in the coverage of the Ebola crisis. The research also sought to establish if the CNN could have provided a conduit for racism in its framing of the disease. The research used a qualitative research methodology. The research was theoretically informed by the theories of representation and decolonial theory. It generally emerged in this thesis...
Abstract: Despite the signing of East African common market protocol in 2010 to enable free movement of people and goods, this has not been achieved to a large extent. Business corporations as well as governments face enormous challenges arising from the diminishing importance of the traditional national borders due to the inevitable aspect of globalization, technological change and developments in trading systems. This research was carried out to establish the role of Kenya’s diplomatic m...
Abstract: The Republic of China has come to be a force to reckon with in the 21st century, and this has enabled it to establish political and economic relations with other regions of the world; especially on the African continent. This paper studies the aid provision by China to Africa; with a key focus on Malawi. Chinese relations with Malawi have had an impact in contributing to the development of the Malawian economy. The main focus area of the research was investments, aid, and trade act...
ABSTRACT The availability of reliable energy supply to meet the exigency of the growing population in West Africa is important in achieving sustainable development and reducing poverty in the continent. Diverse studies have sought to examine the link between energy consumption and growth. However, the consensus with reference to the causal link if any between energy consumption and growth is not explicit. Conflicting conclusions have been espoused on the energy-growth nexus and this has neces...
Abstract: end of the Cold War, marked by the shift from a bipolar to multipolar security order, prompted a significant change in Japan’s relations with Africa. New political and economic challenges, which have been accelerated by the process of globalization, have forced Japan to adjust its foreign policies accordingly- especially in the African context. The primary goal of this study is to analyze how the concept of human security has influenced Japan’s foreign policy towards Africa sin...
Governance of international migration, which involves cross-border movement of people from adjoining countries and intra – and extra-regional non-adjoining countries, is currently a topical global issue. South-North and South-South are the commonest directional migratory flows; eighty percent of the latter is cross-border, a widespread phenomenon within the Southern African Development Community. Over the years, the popular view in South Africa has been that African migrants mainly negative...
.ABSTRACT Economic integration (EI), which is an embodiment of custom unions, tradeblocs, and free trade area, has the ultimate aim of promoting tradeparticipation of Members and in the long-run enhancing economicperformance and welfare of their citizenry. Economic Integration cannotoperate in a vacuum, it requires some sort of components such as transportand communication...
INTRODUCTION Nigeria became a nation state in 1914 by the Act of Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorate by the British Colonial Administration. Before then there were separate cultural, ethic and linguistic groups span across both the Northern and Southern part of the land such as the Oyo, Benin, Nupe, Jukun, Kanem-Borun, Hausa Fulani, Igbo, Ibibio and TIV empires, some of these groups are large while others are relatively small. The British established a crown colony admini...
Abstract: China's growing interest in African has drawn extravagant attention since the early 2000s. Although African governments generally regard China Africa economic relations positively by African governments, the impact of deepening economic relations on the governance of African states remains unclear. In recent times, the influence of growing economic interdependence between Africa and China has also raised the question of China’s putative non-interference in domestic affairs of Afr...
Abstract: The emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC nations) to exert socio-economic and -political influence in global trade and investments is becoming more significant to Africa. There are many factors surrounding the interaction between the BRIC and Africa, which may have certain implications on Western interaction with Africa. The arms that Africans fight each other with and/or their governments are sourced internationally, most of which are illegally acquired. The mobiliza...
ABSTRACT There have been numerous cases of xenophobic violence on foreign nationals in recent years in South Africa. Grounded on this preposition, this dissertation examined the socio-economic effects of xenophobic violence on Ghanaian migrants in South Africa. Furthermore, an understanding of diplomatic relations and dynamics were explored between various countries and migration dynamics between nationals of the different countries. The research employed qualitative approach, using a snowbal...