Poverty, ICT and Economic Growth in SADC Region: A Panel Cointegration Evaluation

Reduction of Poverty Using ICT in SADC Region: A case Study

Poverty reduction is a prominent issue for both governments and international organisations. It is one of the millennium development goals of the UN. Developing countries have high poverty levels than developed ones. However the diffusion of basic information and communications technologies (ICTs) services have penetrated majority of developing countries. Using SADC (South African Development C...

A Panel Analysis of Good Governance and FDI on Economic Growth in MENA Region

The paper focuses on regional trade agreements and economic co-operation and develops a new appropriate approach to study their impact on growth and trade. The approach is based on an endogenous trade-growth theory and novelly specified in an economic integration (expenditure) framework which is the conceptual foundation of regional trade agreements. Importantly, it also appropriately takes int...

Genetic structure, consanguineous marriages and economic development: Panel cointegration and panel cointegration neural network analyses

Consanguineous marriages and their effects on human beings in light of biological effects of genetic sicknesses are discussed in many studies. Among many, the likelihood of sicknesses such as phenylketonuria, thalassemia, Landsteiner–Fanconi–Anderson’s syndrome, hemophilia and many neuro system anomalies increase drastically in countries with consanguineous marriage practices resulting in incre...

SADC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT “Regional Economic Integration: A Strategy for Poverty Eradication

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: A Panel Cointegration Analysis for 16 Asian Countries

This research investigates the co-movement and causality relationships between greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and economic growth for 16 Asian countries over the period 1990-2012. The empirical findings suggest that in the long run, bidirectional Granger causality between energy consumption, GDP and greenhouse gas emissions and between GDP, greenhouse gas emissions and energy cons...