.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...
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...
The East African Community partner states are in the process of forming a monetary union and it is expected to be complete by the year 2023. The idea of a monetary union is not new in East Africa, this is because, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania already had a monetary union during the British colonial administration under East African Currency Board. These countries had the East African shilling as a common currency. However, the East African countries have been unable to form a monetary union in ...
ABSTRACT AGOA offers Sub-Saharan African countries some special privileges and opportunities to export their products into the United States of America without restrictions. It seeks to promote sound socio-economic and political development within the affected region through intercontinental trade liberalization. This work is, therefore, an attempt made to investigate the extent to which AGOA has contributed to transform the economic, social, and political structures of Ghana since 2000. This...
Abstract The study will look at how Donald Trump is presented in Zimbabwe‘s public media which is The Herald newspaper. The Herald is well known to be an ideological state apparatus for the ruling government. This is so because President Mugabe‘s government created the state-controlled Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust (ZMMT), a watchdog that eventually took overall ownership of The Herald and its sister papers (Nyahunzvi 2001). In Zimbabwe the media is much more polarized on political lines. Whe...
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...
The aim of this study is to investigate the nexus between financial inclusion, financial literacy and inclusive growth in Africa. The study uses a modified version of Sarma (2008) approach to compute an index of financial inclusion and inclusive growth. The system-generalized methods of moments is employed to analyze the link between financial inclusion and inclusive growth. Ordinary Least Squares with robust standard errors is employed to investigate the link between financial literacy ...
ABSTRACT The gross Domestic product Growth is a long term rise in the capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods o its population. This growing capacity is said to base on advancing technology.It is only through an effective economic system that human and material resources of the nation could be mobilized between the government and the governed. The concept of economy development of Nigeria with its objectives is aimed at standard and mobilization or mobilizing the functions ...
ABSTRACT This study examines long run economic cost of HIV/AIDS on agriculture. Twenty-two African Countries were identi- fied through purposive sampling. The sampling procedure helped to identify 1420 affected households. However, 1300 observations were found suitable for the subsequent analysis. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics and Overlap- ping Generation (OLG) model. The causes of high prevalence rates are the issue of poverty, fertility, myth and migra- tion among others. Fa...
This annotated bibliography, of major published works on mass communication in Africa (mainly, the Anglophone sub-Saharan region), is the third of such publications that have been undertaken by the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) to promote in the continent the development and wide-spread use of textbooks and other teaching and research materials that are relevant to local conditions and anchored on the experiences of Africa's rich variety of socio-cultural, economic and po...
ABSTRACT West African countries experience economic growth in terms of financial figures but the issue of non -inclusiveness of this growth in terms of human development is becoming worrisome. This study empirically examines the role of information and communication technology adoption on human development and the direction of causality between them using data for 15 West African countries (2004 – 2014) estimated with the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Granger causality tes...
ABSTRACT All around the world, many studies demonstrate the importance of Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) in lifting-up the economy and creating employment. Many governments around the world have created institutions with the aim to enhance SMME survival and growth. This in turn contributes to social and political stability in a country. Despite the importance of SMMEs to the economy and employment creation, in South Africa studies (Hallberg, 2000; World Bank, 2000; World Bank, 20...
ABSTRACT The study of democracy and economic growth is a growing research area both in economics and political economy all over the globe. This study primarily examines the empirical relationship between democracy and economic growth in Ghana using time series data from 1971-2009. It specifically explores the short-run and long-run relationship between democracy and economic growth as well as the direction of causality between them. The research further seek to find the extent to which tax re...
ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has attracted substantial amounts of Official Development Assistance (ODA) over the years. General ODA flows to the continent currently stands at around $80 billion per annum and the figure is projected to be well above $125 billion due to the Sustainable Development Goals. Over the last five decades, SSA has received about $1 trillion in foreign aid for sector-specific (agriculture, health, etc.) development. Even though the impact of aid on economic growth...
Abstract: Vector-borne diseases affecting livestock have serious impacts in Africa. Trypanosomosis is caused by parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and other blood-sucking Diptera. The animal form of the disease is a scourge for African livestock keepers, is already present in Latin America and Asia, and has the potential to spread further. A human form of the disease also exists, known as human African trypanosomosis or sleeping sickness. Controlling and progressively minimizing the burde...