Shigwedha, Wilhelmine Naapopye(University of Namibia, 2020)
Over the years, Namibia continue to experienced rapid growth of unemployment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of government expenditure and money supply on unemployment in Namibia. The annual data ...
Siboleka, Milner; Nyambe, Jacob M.; Osterkamp, Rigmar(2014)
Namibia became independent in 1990. Since then, the democratic government has pursued various development policy tools to empower Namibians economically. The 4th National Development Plan identified four strategic economic ...
Searching for new ways remains a primary concern among scholars. In this paper the macroeconomic determinants of commercial banks’ liquidity in Namibia were considered and analysed. The unit root, bound test for cointegration ...
Foreign direct investments are a challenge to attract, good to host and worse to see leaving. It is in line with this view that an investigation of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Namibia was launched ...
Annually, rural farmers in the Caprivi region are faced with making difficult choices of whether or not to cultivate their crop fields. The choice farmers make is influenced by the presence of wild animals, climate risk ...
The paper examines Namibia’s salient issues of public debt-dynamics and fiscal sustainability from 1980 to 2018. Time series data for the same study period was used. Of interest is the aspect of demystifying the dearth ...
While urban dwelling is increasingly becoming common across the world, in Namibia, the population settlement pattern is skewed towards rural areas and so is the case for the Zambezi region. The main livelihood strategy is ...
This study was conceived to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in Zambia. Data used was obtained from the World Bank’s world development indicators for the period 1980 to 2012. A unit ...
Makuvaza, Leonard; Nyambe, Jacob M.; Sheefeni, Johannes P.(2019)
This study is premised on investigating the effectiveness of inflation targeting in South Africa. The methods of analysis include the Vector Autoregressive model (VAR), the unit root test and cointegration test. The analysis ...
Studies on the effectiveness of transmission mechanisms of monetary policy are crucial for an economy. It is essential to understand how effective are the channels of monetary transmission in directing economic activities ...
This study purposed to answer the question of whether or not there exist a causal relationship between the lending interest rate and credit volume available to households in Namibia. Analytical methods of unit root, Johansen ...
Namibia has several State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) some of which are sustainable while others are state-revenue draining. This study was conceived to explore the factors that lead to success and failure of SOEs in Namibia ...
The term exchange rate volatility is widely used in the financial market. The exchange rate is determined in the foreign exchange market, which is said to be the largest market in the world and it trades in financial assets. ...
Grynberg, Roman; Nyambe, Jacob M.; Singopo, Fwasa(2019)
The paper examines the trade in gold from two African countries, Libya and Sudan which are according to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) import figures, the two largest gold exporters to the UAE from the African conAnent. ...
Grynberg, Roman; Nyambe, Jacob M.; Singopo, Fwasa(2019)
The article reviews recent research and controversies surrounding the quantification
of illicit financial flows (IFF) in the gold mining sector in Africa. It is argued that the
methodology and data used in the quantification ...
While the scientific world blames the severity of climate risk factors on climate change,
the assessment of its effects on a rural household remains understudied. The objective of this study is to assess climate risk ...
Ngenokesho, Kashilimonika Derefina(University of Namibia, 2020)
This study investigated the determinants of public investment in Namibia. Time-series techniques such as unit root test, cointegration, and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach were applied on quarterly data for ...
Shighweda, Wilhelmine Naapopye(University of Namibia, 2020)
Over the years, Namibia continue to experienced rapid growth of unemployment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of government expenditure and money supply on unemployment in Namibia. The annual data ...
The main objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between gross domestic savings and the interest rate in Namibia. It should be pointed out that the interest rate was subsumed by the repo rate. This ...
The study aims to empirically test the Ricardian Equivalence hypothesis in Namibia, using quarterly time-series data from 1991 quarter one to 2017 quarter four. The annual data was converted from annual to quarterly by ...
Mangwendeza, Karen K.(University of Namibia, 2020)
The study investigated the relationship between balance of payments and economic growth for Namibia using quarterly time series data over the period 1999q1to 2018q2. The variables used include real gross domestic product, ...
The study investigated the causal relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Namibia. It used annual secondary time series data covering the period between 1980 and 2016 for the following variables: ...
Nyandoro, Winnie Vina(University of Namibia, 2019)
The currencies of the five SACU countries have experienced notable volatility in the last decade. The purpose of this study therefore, was to identify the determinants of exchange rate volatility in the SACU region and ...
The objective of this study is to explore the main determinants of interest rate spread in Namibia's commercial banking industry using a panel data analysis of bank level data and time series analysis of macroeconomic data. ...
This paper examined the impact of public debt on economic growth of Namibia for the
period 2003 to 2016 using quarterly time series data on GDP growth as a proxy for
economic growth; external debt and domestic debt. Time ...
This study sets out to investigate the relationship between stock prices and exchange rates in Zambia. The relationship between the two variables is well explained by the portfolio balance and the traditional approaches ...
Mazuba, Haansende Christine(University of Namibia, 2019)
The term exchange rate volatility is widely used in the financial market. The exchange rate is determined in the foreign exchange market, which is said to be the largest market in the world and it trades financial assets. ...
This paper presents an empirical analysis on the relationship risk and return. This study is helpful to analyse the asymmetric nature of data including the seasonal effect and non-linear properties in risk and return ...
The study analyzed macroeconomic determinants of remittances in Southern Africa and made use of annual data for the period ranging from 2003 to 2016. The macroeconomic determinants used include: remittances themselves, the ...
This study investigated the long term as well as short term relationship between macroeconomic variables and the Namibia Stock Market using monthly data from 1996 to 2016. The macroeconomic variables tested are interest ...