Employing annual time series data on total population in Gambia from 1960 to 2017, I model and forecast total population over the next 3 decades using the Box – Jenkins ARIMA technique. Diagnostic tests such as the ADF tests show that Gambia annual total population is I (2). Based on the AIC,...

The importance of population studies in Pakistan has been recognized since very ancient times. While population growth issues rarely grab the headlines in the media, it is imperative to note that Pakistan continues to be a victim of population growth. Employing the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)...

Zimbabwe, whose economy is under life support; continues to be characterized by company closures with many workers losing their jobs through retrenchments (Nyathi et al, 2018). This fragile economic situation has resulted in a number of Zimbabweans resorting to entrepreneurship as their last...

The economy of Burundi is currently under life support and private investment is still in its embryonic stage, after a series of civil wars that have characterised Burundi’s post – independence era. The political woes that Burundi continues to experience are one of the fundamental hindrances...

That corruption abounds in Nigeria is an indisputable fact (Agbiboa, 2012). The corrupt man is everywhere, the man on the street, the man next door, the man in the church or mosque, the man in the market or the departmental store, the policeman on beat patrol and the soldier at the check point...

Entrepreneurship development has been a topical issue having been popularized by ancient great economists such as Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter. Today, governments and non – governmental organizations around the world; are busy trying to find out practical strategies of influencing...

This study attempts to model and forecast net FDI inflows in Zimbabwe over the next 2 decades. Spanning from 1980 – 2017, annual time series data for net FDI inflows in Zimbabwe was used. The ADF test indicates that FDI data is I (1). The study identifies the minimum AIC value and subsequently...

Of uttermost importance is the fact that forecasting macroeconomic variables provides a clear picture of what the state of the economy will be in future (Sultana et al, 2013). Nothing is more important to the conduct of monetary policy than understanding and predicting inflation (Kohn, 2005)....

This paper, which is the first of its kind in the case of Zimbabwe, uses annual time series on international tourism demand in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2019, to model and forecast the demand for international tourism using the Box – Jenkins ARIMA approach. This research has been guided by the...

In the financial as well as managerial decision making process, forecasting is a crucial element (Majhi et al, 2009). Most research have been made on forecasting of financial and economic variables through the help of researchers in the last decades using series of fundamental and technical...