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1 Diaz-Bonilla, E. 2015. Macroeconomics, agriculture, and food security: a guide to policy analysis in developing countries. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 611p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298590]
Macroeconomics ; Agricultural sector ; Agricultural production ; Food supply ; Food security ; Developing countries ; Commodity markets ; Prices ; Development policies ; Economic growth ; Financial policies ; Monetary policies ; Assets ; Fiscal policies ; State intervention ; Poverty ; Farmers ; Sustainability ; Trade policy ; Exchange rate ; Taxes ; Investment ; Funding ; Financial institutions ; Banking ; Savings ; Income ; Subsidies ; Inflation ; Expenditure
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G000 DIA Record No: H047365)
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2 Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhemachen, Charles; Nhlengenthwa, Sibusiso. 2018. Income growth, population and savings in the Southern Africa development community region. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 21(1):1-9. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1772]
Community development ; Development programmes ; Economic growth ; Income generation ; Population growth ; Poverty ; Savings ; Human capital ; Econometric models ; Investment / Southern Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048959)
https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/1772/1622
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Background: The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) faces pervasive income stagnation, high inequality, increasing population growth rates and poverty. For example, despite that half of SADC countries are low middle income (as opposed to low income), high inequality implies that many people in the region still live in poverty. While literature is replete with theories linking low incomes to population growth and savings, empirical evidence is context specific and often mixed. Aim: There is a dearth of strong empirical evidence that shows empirical linkages between population growth rates, incomes and savings in the SADC and this article aims to investigate these linkages. Specifically, the aim is to empirically understand the impact of population growth, savings and investment in human capital, on incomes. Setting: We focus our investigation on the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), which comprises 16 countries namely, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros. Methods: To achieve the goals of this study, we analyse data from 1977 to 2014 obtained from the World Bank databases and use ordinary least squares, fixed effects, random effects and Arellano-Bond dynamic panel-data estimation techniques to investigate the relationships between incomes, population growth and savings. Results: Our findings support the existence of a negative relationship between high population growth rates and income per capita, as well as a positive relationship between capital accumulation (human capital), savings and income per capita growth. Shares of savings in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) of countries in the SADC stand at under 16% of GDP (compared to shares of over 30% in developed countries) and are particularly worrisome. Conclusion: There is a case for a concerted effort by the SADC Member States to control population growth, encourage schooling and, further, encourage a ‘savings culture’ in order for the SADC region to achieve its aspirations of eradicating poverty and hunger as outlined in Agenda 2063 and even the Sustainable Development Goals.
3 Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Matchaya, Greenwell; Greffiths, Ikhothatseng; Fakudze, Bhekiwe. 2021. Analysis of the determinants of public capital investments on agricultural water infrastructure in Eswatini. Business Strategy and Development, 4(1):49-58. (Special issue: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in Africa) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.156]
Agriculture ; Water supply ; Infrastructure ; Public investment ; Economic growth ; Gross national product ; Macroeconomic analysis ; Economic theories ; Sustainable development ; Sugar industry ; Exports ; Income ; Financing ; Government ; Savings ; Public sector / Eswatini
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050166)
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Infrastructure investment is one of the main preconditions for enabling developing countries to accelerate or sustain the pace of their development and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper examines the determinants of agricultural water infrastructure investments in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Using annual data (time series); Pearson Pair-wise Correlation, Unit-root tests and OLS regression techniques are applied to determine the relationship between public infrastructure investment and factors that influence public investments. Agricultural water infrastructure investment is found to be positively correlated to GDP, Sugar export income and FDI into agriculture. Past economic growth and sugar export values are the two critical determinants of agricultural water infrastructure investments in Eswatini. It can be safely construed that higher incomes as well as terms of trade for sugar, can improve spending on agriculture water investments. This is important because an increase in investments in water infrastructure may then help spur economic growth.
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