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Trade and growth nexus in Zimbabwe: quantifying the economic implications of joining the Tripartite Free Trade Area: paper presented at the Midlands State University and University of Venda conference on Economic Integration, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development held at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe on the 14th-16th October, 2015
No full textZimbabwe, just like many other developing countries, engages and participates in various regional trade arrangements (RTAs) as one building block in a key strategy towards trade-led growth. This paper sought to analyse the medium to long-range implications of Zimbabwe joining the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) from that perspective. The empirical evidence shows that a more open trade regime under the TFTA contributes more to the country’s aggregate economic growth than under the SADC and COMESA FTAs only. However, the study also notes that the level of protectionism towards third parties in the country is still very high and exceptions to free trade with regional trade partners are frequent. Moreover, joining a FTA is not an end in itself. In order to enjoy and exploit the full benefits from its regional integration efforts, Zimbabwe needs to fully utilize its existing trading arrangements under the SADC and COMESA agreement
TRADE AND GROWTH NEXUS IN ZIMBABWE: Quantifying the economic implications of joining the Tripartite Free Trade Area
No full textZimbabwe, just like many other developing countries, engages and participates in various regional trade arrangements (RTAs) as a key strategy towards export-led growth.
This paper sought to establish the medium to long-range economic implication of Zimbabwe joining the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). The empirical evidence showing that a more open trade regime (under the TFTA) contribute more to aggregate economic growth, led to the conclusion that Zimbabwe has only more to gain from joining and participating in the TFTA
FDI AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA: Quantifying Multinational Companies’ spillovers in the SSA region
No full textForeign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered an essential element for achieving sustainable growth. This has resulted in a pervasive stampede, by both the developed-to- developing countries as well as countries whose economies are in transition, to attract more FDI envisaged to backstop their development strategies. Alongside this is the most celebrated growth trajectory in Africa, whereby in the International Monetary Fund (October, 2014) language ‘the world is in a mess, but not Africa’. This paper seeks to establish how much of the FDI activities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been translated into economic benefit for the host countries. It extends the analysis of aggregate FDI- growth relationships to intra and inter-sector spill-over effects, thereby reconciling the often inconclusive evidence on the growth impact of FDI in SSA.
An interrogation of the figures in an econometric estimation of the FDI-growth relationship reveals that while FDI may seem like the flavor of the century when measured by the rate it has been growing in Africa, this international interest in the region is yet to be translated into generation of livelihood and growth opportunities for recipient countries
FDI and economic transformation in Sub-saharan Africa: paper prepared for the Midlands State University 1st International Research Conference: Driving Socio-Economic Development through Value Addition and Sustainable use of Resources held at Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 14-16 July 2015
No full textForeign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered one essential element for achieving sustainable development. This paper seeks to establish how much of the FDI activities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have translated into economic benefit for the host countries. It extends the analysis of aggregate FDI-growth relationships to intra and inter-sector spill-over effects, thereby reconciling the often inconclusive evidence on the growth impact of FDI in SSA. An interrogation of the figures in an econometric estimation of the FDI-growth relationship reveals that while FDI may seem like a key phenomenon of the century when measured by the rate it has been growing in Africa, this international interest in the region is yet to be translated into generation of livelihood and growth opportunities for recipient countries. The findings are important in light of Zimbabwe’s current economic woes characterized by low FDI inflows. FDI attraction has been proffered as a panacea to the current recession but the question is its sustainability given the turbulent political and socio-economic environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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