Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to assess the fiscal sustainability of nine southern African countries that belong to the Southern African Development Community. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, the author...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify human capital factors that pertain both to setting up and successfully running a business. To achieve this objective, the authors apply and extend the theory of career choice offered by Lazear (2005) that explains individual selection into...

In this paper a martingale approximation is used to derive an asymptotic distribution of simple positive eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix for a stationary process. The derived distribution can be used to study stability of the common factor representation based on the principal...