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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Economic growth in Namibia"”.
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Savings, investment and economic growth in Namibia
This study examined the interaction between saving, investment and economic growth in Namibia. The relationship between these variables is central to Namibia’s guiding macroeconomic framework. However, empirical evidence has shown that the relationship between saving, investment and economic growth …
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Telecommunications development and economic growth in Namibia
The telecommunications sector is one of the industries that provide an enabling environment for other sectors to increase efficiency and productivity. With the emergence of Covid-19, which forced the world to adopt a new way of doing things, the telecommunications sector ensured minimum disruption …
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Budget deficit and economic growth in Namibia
… of the relationship between budget deficit and economic growth in Namibia, using time series quarterly secondary data covering the period, 1990 to 2015. The study employed the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds Test and estimated the coefficients of the variables from the Error …
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Investigating the relationship between agricultural productivity and economic growth in Namibia
Over the years, Namibia has made efforts to promote the agriculture sector in its National Development Plans. The current five-year plan still identifies the agriculture sector with the potential to boost economic growth to address challenges of food security, unemployment and poverty reduction. …
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The impact of commercial banks development on economic growth in Namibia
This study sets out to investigate the impact of commercial banks development on economic growth in Namibia. Using quarterly data on GDP as well as various commercial banks development indicators, covering the period March 2005 to December 2016, the study employed the Auto-Regression Distributive …
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An examination of the impact of education on economic growth in Namibia
This study examines the relationship between education and economic growth for the Namibian economy by employing Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP), gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) and education index (EDU) for the period 1980 to 2017. This study uses Real Gross Domestic Product as a proxy for …
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An investigation of the relationship between trade openess and economic growth in Namibia
The study investigated the relationship between trade openness and economic growth for Namibia using annual time series data over the period 1980 to 2011. The variables used include GDP per capita, labour force, capital formation, trade openness and real exchange rate. This study employed time …
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An assessment of the relationship between money supply and economic growth in Namibia
This study examined the relationship between broad money supply and economic growth in Namibia. The ARDL bounds test approach to cointegration was applied on quarterly data from 2008: Q1 to 2020: Q4. The study employed the Augmented Dickey-Fuller, and Phillip Peron tests to examine the order of …
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An assessment of the relationship between budget deficit and economic growth in Namibia
… of the relationship between budget deficit and economic growth in Namibia using time series quarterly secondary data covering the period, 1993 Q4 to 2015, Q4. The study employs the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test and estimates the coefficients of the variables from the …
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Investigating the relationship between non-bank financial sector development and economic growth in Namibia
This study aims to empirically investigate whether a long-run relationship exists between the development of the non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) sector and economic growth in Namibia and to further determine the direction of causality thereof. The study uses time series quarterly data over …
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Examining the causal relationship between private sector credit extended and economic growth in Namibia
This study examined the causal relationship between Private Sector Credit Extension (PSCE) and Economic growth in Namibia. The study used the quarterly data covering the period from 2000:Q1-2017:Q4. The variables employed were Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, Private Sector Credit Extended, …
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An analysis of the causal relationship between agricultural exports and economic growth in Namibia
This paper investigates the Granger causality between agricultural exports and economic growth in Namibia over the period 1998 – 2016. The study used the simple pairwise Granger causality to determine the existence of such a relationship. An Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test was used to test for …
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An investigation of the relationship between balance of payments and economic growth in Namibia
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, balance of payments, real exports, real effective exchange rate, net foreign …
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The causal relationship between road transport infrastructure development and economic growth in Namibia (1990-2014)
The major aim of the study was to examine the short and long-run relationships and directional causality flow between road transport infrastructure development and economic growth in Namibia for the period 1990-2014. To achieve this objective, the study adopted the auto regression distributive lag …
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The impact of government debt on economic growth: An empirical investigation of Namibia
This paper examines the impact of government debt on economic growth in Namibia with annual data spanning from 1980 to 2016. The paper investigates whether public debt spurs on or promotes economic growth. We employ an Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model that serves as an analysis of the …
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Investigating the relationship between private sector credit extension and economic growth: A case study of Namibia
Financial development, especially through the mechanism of private sector credit lines, has an important role to play in an economy’s growth. As such, economies with better financial institutions for lending and borrowing funds have the potential to grow faster. This is so because better financial …
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Understanding the role of public preferential procurement on the development of black owned construction SMME'S IN South Africa
… FDI, GDP and host country employment by using sector-wise panel data from 1991 to 2017 in Namibia. The study applied unit root testing and Cointegration test to test for the presence of a cointegration relationship between the variables. Also, a vector autoregression model short-run …
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Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth and Employment creation: A Causality Analysis from Namibia
… FDI, GDP and host country employment by using sector-wise panel data from 1991 to 2017 in Namibia. The study applied unit root testing and Cointegration test to test for the presence of a cointegration relationship between the variables. Also, a vector autoregression model short-run …
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Assessing the effect of domestic resource mobilization on Namibia's economic development
… and foreign sources is necessary to achieve economic growth. However, the decline in trade and financial flows brought on by the 2009 global financial crisis, together with the unpredictability and volatility of development assistance flows globally, increased the need for more stable and …
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Analysing the Relationship between Banking Development and Economic Growth: Time Series Evidence from Namibia
The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between banking development and economic growth in Namibia. Namibia has eight licenced commercial banks, four of which have been operational prior to the country's independence; Bank Windhoek Limited, First National Bank Namibia …
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