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The study sought to establish annual country betas, identify possible determinants of country risk, assess the impact country risk drivers have on country risk, and establish short run and long run country risk model for Botswana and Zambia. The findings reveal that current account balance...

Zambia has over the years relied on both internal and external sources of financing to meet budget deficits. As a result the country has amassed huge amounts of domestic and external public debt. Zambia has outstanding Eurobonds that will be coming due in 2024 and it recently defaulted its debt...

The study analyzed the relative impact of the Zambian petroleum imports on its national debt as a decomposed general macroeconomic process. The study established statistically significant long-run national debt-reducing effects resulting from petroleum imports, GDP, gross capital formation, and...

This study investigated the exchange rate pass-through to domestic consumer prices in Zambia, using quarterly data for the period 1994: q1-2019: q4. To estimate the pass-through of exchange rate changes on domestic consumer prices, a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach was used. The...

Over the last few decades, most scholarly writing has focused on foreign direct investment. The multiple benefits that come with Foreign Direct Investments in host nations, particularly developing ones, have been hotly disputed. In their desire for economic progress, several developing countries...

This study was aimed at determining the influence of macroeconomic factors on foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and the value of the Zambian Kwacha. Macroeconomic factors include inflation rates, interest rates, Gross Domestic Product growth rate (GDP) and Balance of Payments which...

This study was aimed at determining the influence of macroeconomic factors on foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and the value of the Zambian Kwacha. Macroeconomic factors include inflation rates, interest rates, Gross Domestic Product growth rate (GDP) and Balance of Payments which...

The growth of economies has historically been coupled with structural change. However, despite countries seemingly undergoing diverse structural changes, there is a disparity in how this translates to economic growth. Zambia is one among many African countries which has not experienced sustained...

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of defence expenditure on economic growth as measured by real gross domestic product (GDP) in the presence of investment proxied by gross fixed capital investment, unemployment, lending rate, inflation proxied by consumer price index and...

The study established the scope of enhancing bank efficiency through dynamic capabilities in the Zimbabwe dollarized environment in the light of possible idiosyncratic and environmental challenges. The findings reveal that structural constraints in the Zimbabwe dollarized operating landscape,...