Economic growth
This topic currently groups 8 published articles across 8 issues.
Export and import-led growth: the Mexican case
Oscar Salomon Castameda Lozada • Juan Carlos Botello Osorio
Volume 14 Issue 01 · 15 May 2026
This research analyses the short-run and long-run relationship between exports, imports, labour, capital and gross domestic product of Mexico from 2002 to 2024 by means of a neoclassical framework under an autoregressiv…
The growth, inequality and poverty triangle in South Africa: A provincial analysis
Stephen Zhanje • Dintuku Maggie Kgomo
Volume 13 Issue 01 · 14 Jun 2025
Purpose of research: Poverty, widening income inequality and economic growth are crucial challenges in sustainable development. A significant fraction of the world's poorest population still struggles to achieve a m…
The impact of manufacturing exports on food poverty reduction in South Africa
H Maduku • M F. Zerihun
Volume 11 Issue 01 · 29 May 2023
As South Africa struggles to deal with many of its socio-economic challenges including poverty, this paper was interested to empirically unpack how trade specifically manufacturing exports are contributing towards pover…
Effect of public debt on economic growth in Nigeria: An empirical analysis 1981 - 2018
Alagba Ochuko S. • Eferakeya Idowu
Volume 07 Issue 02 · 23 Oct 2019
The study investigated the effect of public debts on economic growth of Nigeria for the period of thirty-eight (38) years, 1981 to 2018. Relevant secondary data were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical bull…
Housing finance market and economic growth of West Africa region: a study of Nigeria and Ghana.
Ofor, T. N • Alagba O. S • Ifurueze, M.S
Volume 06 Issue 3 · 09 Jan 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of housing finance on economic growth of West African States while the specific objectives were to: analyse the contributions to housing finance by mortgage banks on th…
Real Economic Convergence in Western Europe from 1995 to 2013
Dzenita Siljak
Volume 03 Issue 3 · 03 Dec 2015
The aim of the paper is to analyze the economic convergence of real per capita GDP in the Western European countries with two types of measurement methodology. The first is sigma convergence, based on the coefficient of…
Dynamic relationships between oil revenue, government spending and economic growth in Oman
Ahmad Hassan Ahmad • Saleh Masan
Volume 03 Issue 2 · 03 Sep 2015
This paper investigates the short-run and long-run relationships between three main macroeconomic variables in Oman using the Johansen multivariate co-integration techniques as well as the stationary VAR for the period…
Factors of economic growth in Palestine: an empirical Analysis during the period of (1994-2013)
Omar Mahmoud Abu-Eideh
Volume 02 Issue 2 · 09 Sep 2014
This study aimed to analyze the impact of the size of domestic working labour force, real gross domestic capital formation, real domestic exports and imports of goods and services, and political instability on real gros…