• FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS: APPLICATION OF A DYNAMIC MODEL 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (Social Sciences Research Society, 2018)

  Capital movements, whether in the form of foreign direct investment or foreign portfolio investment are considered to have a positive multiplier effect on the economy. The study contributes to the empirical literature ...
• Can Foreign Trade Propel Economic Growth in Nigeria? Evidence from Causality Analysis 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (JEL, 2017)

  Documented studies in the existing literature pertaining to causality relationships between foreign trade and economic growth indicators are quite enormous. This study investigates the dynamic causal relationship between ...
• AN ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOREIGN TRADE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A.; Meyer, Daniel (JEL, 2017)

  The driving objective of the study was to estimate the impact of foreign trade on economic performance using the economy of South Africa as a test site. The study contributes to the empirical literature by testing for a ...
• A RECONSIDERATION OF THE EXPORT-LED GROWTH PARADIGM IN NAMIBIA DURING 1990:Q1-2016:Q4 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A.; Halwoodi, Joseph (JEL, 2017)

  A large volume of empirical studies have conceded that international trade can propel development in various ways. This study evaluates the impact of trade on economic growth in the context of Namibia for the period ...
• DETERMINANTS OF HOUSE PRICES AND NEW CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE NAMIBIAN HOUSING MARKET 

  Sunde, Tafirenyika; Muzindutsi, Paul-Francois (J o u r n a l o f D e v e l o p i n g A r e a s, 2017)

  The demand for and supply of housing are heterogeneous and differ across countries, provinces and cities. In the Namibian context, the housing market has experienced a substantial increase in house prices. Such an ...
• Education Expenditure and Economic Growth in Mauritius: An Application of the Bounds Testing Approach 

  Sunde, Tafirenyika (European Scientific Journal, 2017)

  This study examines the relationship between education expenditure and economic growth in Mauritius. The study employed the ARDL bounds testing methodology for the period 1976 to 2016. The study found that education ...
• ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NAMIBIA: EVIDENCE FROM ANNUAL DATA 

  Ogbokor, C. A (Sobiad, 2016)

  The driving objective of the study was to measure in quantitative terms the influence of foreign direct investment on economic growth through cointegration techniques. Namibia was used as a case study. Annual dataset ...
• REASSESSING THE EXPORT-LED GROWTH RELATIONSHIP THROUGH COINTEGRATION METHODS 

  Ogbokor, C.A. (Sobiad, 2016)

  The purpose of this study was to assess the applicability of the export-led growth nexus in the context of Namibia for the period 1990 to 2013 through the application of the Vector Autoregression (VAR) technique, which ...
• An Econometric Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamic Relationship between Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in a Developing Country: Evidence from Namibia 

  Ogbokor, Cyril, A; Meyer, Daniel. M (AUDOE, 2016)

  Economists have an inclination for quantifying the relationships amongst variables at both micro and macro levels. In this study, the possibility of a long-run relationship between foreign trade and economic growth in ...
• An Econometric Investigation of the Impact of Foreign Trade on Economic Growth: The Case of Namibia 

  Ogbokor, Cyril, A; Meyer, Daniel. F (British Journals, 2016)

  This study investigated the impact of foreign trade on economic growth in Namibia for the period 1990-2012 using the Auto-regression Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. Further, annual time series macroeconomic data was utilised. ...
• Economic growth and tax structure in Zimbabwe: 1984–2009 

  Marire, Juniours; Sunde, Tafirenyika (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2012)

  We examine the tax-growth nexus in Zimbabwe using parametric and non-parametric analysis. We use a two-stage estimation procedure that first generates efficiency scores for the country using a Data Envelopment Approach. ...
• The effects of monetary policy on unemployment in Namibia 

  Sunde, Tafirenyika (KSP Journals, 2015)

  The main purpose of the article was to establish the effects of monetary policy on unemployment in Namibia. The article used the structural VAR methodology in a macroeconometric setting to achieve this. The results show ...
• Financial sector development and economic growth nexus in South Africa 

  Sunde, Tafirenyika (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2012)

  The study investigated the nexus between financial sector development and economic growth in South Africa using cointegration and error correction modelling and; the Granger causality tests. The results of the study ...
• Sources of unemployment in Namibia: an application of the structural VAR approach 

  Sunde, Tafirenyika; Akanbi, Olusegun A. (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2016)

  The main purpose of the research was to establish the sources of unemployment in Namibia for the period 1980 to 2013 using the SVAR methodology. Empirical results show that persistently high unemployment is the result ...
• No miracles here: Trade and economic progress. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (British Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences, 2015)

  Indubitably, striving for greater economic growth that can lead to a general improvement in the well-being of the people constitutes one of the fundamental macroeconomic goals of all modern economies these days. In this ...
• Testing the export-led growth paradigm through econometric methods: Empirical evidence from Namibia. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (African Journal of Social Sciences, 2015)

  Despite the large volume of documented empirical studies in the existing literature concerning the export-led model in the last four decades, the exact connection between exports and economic growth remains largely unanswered. ...
• An econometric study of the long-run relationship between defence expenditure and economic growth: Evidence from a developing country. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (IJECM, 2015)

  The high levels of financial allocations to Namibia’s defence budgets have been heavily criticised because such expenditures is considered as a leakage to the country’s economy. In light of this, the study assessed the ...
• Exploring co-integration and causality relationships between government expenditure and economic performance in Namibia. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A. (IISTE, 2015)

  One of the heated discussions among economists nowadays relates to the efficacy of government expenditure as a tool for stimulating growth in the national economy. This research paper contributes to the existing literature ...
• A study of the determinants of mortgage interest rates in Namibia through co-integration and error correction mechanisms. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A.; Kwedhi, Ndapwa Tulina (International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2014)

  Discussions concerning interest rates, especially mortgage rates are increasingly being given a lot of attention in the literature. Indeed, in realisation of this fact, the study attempted to establish the factors that ...
• A time series analysis of determinants of savings in Namibia. 

  Ogbokor, Cyril A.; Samahiya, Obrien Muine (IISTE, 2014)

  The driving objective of this article was to empirically establish the determinants of savings in Namibia through the use of co-integration and error correction mechanisms for the period running from 1991 to 2012. We made ...

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