Traditionally, organisations conceive of women as 'the second sex', to allude Beauvoir's verbiage. This mode of women conceptualisation regarding leadership and career advancement in relation to male-dominated business world is sustained by chauvinistic modus operandi called patriarchy that owes...

The study tries to shed light on the question of why the economic development of Malaysia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt had different success rates during the period from 1971 and 2009. The three countries are moderate Islamic countries and had started their economic development about...

Most sectors rely on energy as input to produce output. Though the use of energy by the agriculture sector is not as high as in other sectors, it is still necessary to study the links between the two. This is vital as there are only few studies that illustrate the bonds between them in Malaysia....

Nigeria aspires to be among the top 20 economies in the world come year 2020 - Vision 20:2020. This study examines the aspiration, encoded Vision 20:2020. The aim is to determine if the country has sufficient capacity to catapult its economy from its current 41st position to within 20 come year...

The production of biofuels is increasingly regarded as an opportunity for African countries to attain various development goals. Yet, there are risks associated with it, namely concerning food security, emissions of GHG, and the sustainability of eco-systems. Addressing these requires an...

The twin devils (tax evasion and avoidance) are problems which seem to have defied solution, and have bedevilled the Zimbabwe tax system ever since independence. While others put the blame on the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) for not living up to expectation ever since the inception with...

In the past few decades, several developing economies, particularly in East Asia and parts of Latin America, have successfully transformed their economies and acknowledged as newly industrialised economies. The new industrialisers have also emerged as key players in the global economy breaking...

In this paper, using the ARDL bounds approach and augmented Solow framework, we explore the impacts of capital inflows (remittances, foreign direct investment and overseas development assistance) and financial-technology inclusion viz. remittance on per worker income in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)...

This study examined empirically a one-to-one nexus between domestic fuel price and various macroeconomic variables in Nigeria for the period spanning 1986 to 2011. The study adopted both a vector auto-regressive (VAR) and a vector error correction (VEC) models for appropriate analysis. For pairs...