Financial markets integration has resulted in high interconnectedness among the BRICS stock markets, which minimizes diversification potentials. This increased investors’ interest financialization of commodities to minimize their portfolio risks. However, comovements between these assets do not operate a vacuum, requires that role volatilities be considered tandem. The purpose this study is exp...

1. Freehouse International Ltd., Gibraltar 2. StopTB, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 3. Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 4. South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa 5. Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa 6. Academic Complex Business Unit, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Natio...

1 Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Vaccines for Africa Initiative, In...

Purpose:  The paper aims to focus on South Africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. It attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the National Dev...

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic created a new reality. Each country has implemented different measures to contain pandemic, which had many consequences for society and businesses. The purpose this paper is improve understanding how changed consumer behavior in BRICS countries discuss role trust anxiety. A systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis was carried out identify ...

Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Hematology and Cell Biology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretori...

1 AIDS Virus Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, South Africa. 2 College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa. 3 Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Medical School, Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan. 4 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa. 5 Division of Ac...

Energy is life blood of all economies and an indispensable prerequisite for economic activities consequently factors influencing the energy consumption are vital importance. Therefore, this study investigates effect education together with financial development on in sample BRICS over 1990–2019 period by means second-generation cointegration causality analyses thanks to small number empirical s...

With the use of empirical data, this paper focuses on solving financial and investment issues involving extremal dependence 10 pairwise combinations 5 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) stock markets. Daily closing equity indices from January 2010 to 6 August 2018 are used in study. Unlike previous literature, we bivariate point process conditional multivariate extreme value mod...

Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Immunology department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, University of the Free State School of...