Determinants of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) inflow in lowincome Sub-Saharan African countries
- Moyo, Patience https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-085X
- Authors: Moyo, Patience https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-085X
- Date: 2023-10
- Subjects: Investments, Foreign -- Developing countries
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29484 , vital:77971
- Description: A panel data analysis from 1980 to 2019 on determinants that lure Foreign Direct Investment in 48 low-income countries in SSA was carried out. The fixed effects random effects and Haussmann test were used. This study also contributed to the existing literature by applying all these techniques and embracing the Institutional and eclectic paradigm theoretical framework to assess the significance of factors that influence FDI inflow. A trend analysis of developed, transitional, and developing countries as compared to low-income countries, on factors that attract investors to finance their country's economic activities was discussed. Previous studies show that high- and middle-income countries attract higher FDI as compared to low-income countries. Results from the study show that political stability, investment in infrastructure, political stability and control of corruption enhance FDI. The study fills the gap in the existing literature that location factors in coastal regions attract more FDI as compared to inland economies. High income economies attract more FDI as compared to low income economies in SSA. , Thesis (MCom in Economics) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2023
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- Date Issued: 2023-10
- Authors: Moyo, Patience https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-085X
- Date: 2023-10
- Subjects: Investments, Foreign -- Developing countries
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29484 , vital:77971
- Description: A panel data analysis from 1980 to 2019 on determinants that lure Foreign Direct Investment in 48 low-income countries in SSA was carried out. The fixed effects random effects and Haussmann test were used. This study also contributed to the existing literature by applying all these techniques and embracing the Institutional and eclectic paradigm theoretical framework to assess the significance of factors that influence FDI inflow. A trend analysis of developed, transitional, and developing countries as compared to low-income countries, on factors that attract investors to finance their country's economic activities was discussed. Previous studies show that high- and middle-income countries attract higher FDI as compared to low-income countries. Results from the study show that political stability, investment in infrastructure, political stability and control of corruption enhance FDI. The study fills the gap in the existing literature that location factors in coastal regions attract more FDI as compared to inland economies. High income economies attract more FDI as compared to low income economies in SSA. , Thesis (MCom in Economics) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2023
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- Date Issued: 2023-10
End-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly Deaf parents with infants
- Authors: Mxhego, Zukile Bright
- Date: 2023-04
- Subjects: End-user computing , Assistive Technology , Children of deaf parents
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , Thesis
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/65809 , vital:74269
- Description: As the number of deaf people in the world increases, the amount of parents who are deaf, is also growing. The world is increasingly relying on technology from which deaf parents can, and do, benefit significantly. Deaf parents are able to rely on available technology such as assistive technologies to overcome functional limitations. However, assistive technologies are often abandoned within a short period of time of being acquired. The abandonment of assistive technologies is believed to be due to a lack of proper elicitation of requirements. Therefore, the problem identified in this research is a lack of understanding of end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants. A literature review together with logical argumentation was conducted and applied to identify and recommend a method suitable for eliciting end-user requirements for assistive technologies. Thereafter, an integrative literature review and thematic analysis was done to extract needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, and group them according to themes that emerged. Finally, making use of the recommended method and the extracted needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, twenty-eight end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were elicited. The twenty-eight elicited end-user requirements consist of eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants, and ten end-user requirements that express an overall goal/objective to be attained by profoundly deaf parents with infants when the assistive technology is designed and developed. To evaluate the elicited end-user requirements, only the eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were considered. The evaluation was done by assessing both existing and emerging assistive technologies to understand the comprehensiveness of the eighteen elicited end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants. , Thesis (MIT) -- Faculty of of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology, School of Information Technology, 2023
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- Date Issued: 2023-04
- Authors: Mxhego, Zukile Bright
- Date: 2023-04
- Subjects: End-user computing , Assistive Technology , Children of deaf parents
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , Thesis
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/65809 , vital:74269
- Description: As the number of deaf people in the world increases, the amount of parents who are deaf, is also growing. The world is increasingly relying on technology from which deaf parents can, and do, benefit significantly. Deaf parents are able to rely on available technology such as assistive technologies to overcome functional limitations. However, assistive technologies are often abandoned within a short period of time of being acquired. The abandonment of assistive technologies is believed to be due to a lack of proper elicitation of requirements. Therefore, the problem identified in this research is a lack of understanding of end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants. A literature review together with logical argumentation was conducted and applied to identify and recommend a method suitable for eliciting end-user requirements for assistive technologies. Thereafter, an integrative literature review and thematic analysis was done to extract needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, and group them according to themes that emerged. Finally, making use of the recommended method and the extracted needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, twenty-eight end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were elicited. The twenty-eight elicited end-user requirements consist of eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants, and ten end-user requirements that express an overall goal/objective to be attained by profoundly deaf parents with infants when the assistive technology is designed and developed. To evaluate the elicited end-user requirements, only the eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were considered. The evaluation was done by assessing both existing and emerging assistive technologies to understand the comprehensiveness of the eighteen elicited end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants. , Thesis (MIT) -- Faculty of of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology, School of Information Technology, 2023
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- Date Issued: 2023-04
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