Faced with the financial crisis and global economic recessions, Africa governments have rediscovered the importance of economic policy instruments. They use it to rescue the bankrupt banks, and to make more economic activity to carry back recession. But now there's a backlash demanding that the deficits used to create the stimulus must be reduced by cutting public consumption spending on a grand scale. Hence the target of this study is to explore the role of public consumption expenditure on ...
While there's an outsized consensus within the empirical literature on the negative impact of corruption on the economic process, some studies still argue that corruption could also be economically justified. There is, however, little empirical evidence to validate the impact of corruption on economic growth within the devolved units. The effect of the corruption rate on the economic activities is examined using ordinary least squares regression analysis and Kenya county-level data. The resul...
Domestic savings is a vital source of investment funds, especially for developing economies. It is thus essentialthat internal savings capacity in these economies is increased to enhance investment financing and economicgrowth. Since increased reliance on external capital flows can result in economic instability, achieving a highernational saving rate is a critical macroeconomic objective for many developing countries. However, domesticsavings remain low in many of them including Kenya, posin...
Exchange rate volatility and declining capital inflow are important policy issues that inform macroeconomic policies and strategies of developing countries. Most developing economies have small potential resource base, faces foreign exchange volatility and limited market of agricultural products, thus investigating the role of capital flight is significant for these states. Cognizant of this, the study will try to answer the paradox of capital outflow and exchange uncertainty. The research wi...
Capital flight remains significant for public officials in East Africa member states, especially since the emergenceof the foreign debt crisis and the associated drastic decline in capital inflows from developed nations and BrettonWoods institutions. Given their smaller resource base, debt accumulation and budget deficit, the problem of capitalflight in developing nations requires examination. The study examined the effect of accumulating external debt oncapital flight in East African countri...
In the wake of the steep fall in the national savings due to economic shocks, among them the COVID-19 pandemic macroeconomic consequences, this study examines to what extent inflation explains the variation in the saving behavior in developing countries. Most past empirical studies investigated the role of inflation on savings only in advanced nations. The current study will investigate the effect of inflation on savings culture in Kenya. To determine how inflation explains saving, the study ...
The goal of this research was to investigate empirically how government expenditure contributes to economic growth in East Africa. Most existing studies examining the relationship between expenditure and economic growth show conflicting results and mainly focus on aggregate expenditure. Hence this study focused on disaggregated expenditure over the period from 1980 to 2010. The objective ofthe study was to establish these expenditures that have effects on growth using balanced panel fixed eff...
The empirical debate on the role of road transport infrastructure on domestic economic growth is inconclusive and is characterized by two main opposing views: the road-led economic growth hypothesis and the distorting effect of infrastructure growth hypothesis. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of road transportation infrastructure on economic growth in Kenya using time series data over the period 1990-2020. Empirically, the study develops a transport-growth model that is a...
ABSTRACT This research study aimed at analyzing the Government assistance in health program in developing genocide survivors’ living standards in Rwanda. The research focused to identify the demographic characteristics of the respondents, to determine the extent of Rwandan Government health assistance in developing genocide survivors’ living standards, to establish the level of genocide survivors’ living standards and their integration in National development, to determine f there is a...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of supply chain management activities and performance in small scale enterprises in juba, South Sudan. The purpose was to investigate the relationship between supply chain management activities and performance. It was based on the following objectives: to determine the demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of age, gender, level of education, and experience; to determine the level of supply chain management practices in small scale ente...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to investigate the relationship between information, communication technology usage and record management in selected secondary schools in Mogadishu, Somalia. This study was based on four objectives that were: to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of gender, age educational level, experience, position and department; to determine the level of ICT usage; determine the level of record management; to determine whether there is significant relatio...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine and evaluate performance appraisal when linked to performance of management staff of kakira sugar works and eventually generalize the results to employees in kakira sugar works. A conceptual framework relating to independent variables, staffs’ personal goals, frequency of performance appraisal, feedback and organizational productivity dependent variable organizational performance was developed together with moderating variables leadership sty...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of procurement planning on value for money Among Selected Districts in Southern Province, Rwanda. The study was limited to the following objectives: i) to determine the effect of procurement packaging on value for money Among Selected Districts in Southern Province, Rwanda ii) to establish the effect of procurement method on value for money Among Selected Districts in Southern Province, Rwanda and iii) to find out the effect of procurement schedulin...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to know the role of Somali culture which is based on Somali pastoral norms and Islamic religion on the women political participation specially the participation of women for the local council and parliamentary election which was held between 2002 up to 2005 respectively. The specific objectives of this study were, to determine the effect of religion (Islam) on the political participation of women in Somaliland; to investigate the role of traditional Soma...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between financial reporting and organizational effectiveness. The objectives of the study was to determine the level of financial reporting, determine the level of organizational effectiveness, and determine if there is significance relationship between financial reporting and organizational effectiveness in Mogadishu University. The study used a descriptive cross-sectional study design using a quantitative approach on population consisting of univ...