Lloyd George Banda

• PhD Candidate (Stellenbosch); Master of Development Studies (UNIMA); Bsoc-Econ & History (UNIMA)
• Researcher at Stellenbosch University

This paper investigates Smith's triumvirate hypothesis that peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice inclusively constitute what a state requires to attain the highest degree of economic prosperity. First, the paper constructed a single index of Smith's triumvirate through a principal component analysis (PCA). Then, data analysi...

The policy cycle (process) model is the oldest public policy analytical tool, developed by Harold Laswell in 1957. Since the 1980s, the framework has come under intense criticism, especially for its linearity or neat policy stages approach, lack of falsifiable hypotheses, and difficulties in establishing causal linkages among its components. Surpri...

E-government is a prominent approach in environmental sustainability as it brings various arrangements that allow for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The article explores two main objectives. Firstly, the direct impact of e-government on ecological sustainability and secondly, whether e-government enhances environmental sustainability i...

The legal capacity or, otherwise, the institutions of rule of law (RL), have become a key factor for inclusive economic development, but the main strands of the literature involve theoretically driven expectations. Therefore, the study sought to examine the impact of legal capacity on inclusive economic development in the Southern African Developme...

Efficient logistics management fills the puzzle that ensures the survival and maintenance of an economic system and the growth of its international trade relations. Aligned to sustainable development goal 16, the present study is an essential inquiry of knowledge that empirically examines (1) the role of public governance on logistics industry perf...

E-commerce is a comparatively classical concept that emerged into the business language in the 1970s. However, the theoretical and empirical conceptualization of the concept in marketing or consumer behaviour and economics is scanty. Therefore, we seek to statistically examine the impact of marketing strategies measured by the E-commerce index on h...

The United Nations, regional economic communities (RECs), donors, theorists, and researchers have prescribed good governance to remedy the African underdevelopment pathogen. In contrast to existing literature that measures the impact of good governance on economic growth using gross domestic product-related indicators, this paper examines the effec...

There has been a monotonic increase in research investigating the performance of commercial banks across the globe. This is a recognition that the banking industry has a significant contribution to the service sector and national output. This paper examined the existence of the structure-conduct performance (SCP) and efficient market hypotheses by...

There has been a monotonic increase in research investigating the performance of commercial banks across the globe. This is a recognition that the banking industry has a significant contribution to the service sector and national output. This paper examined the existence of the structure-conduct performance (SCP) and efficient market hypotheses by...

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On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 that started in December 2019 a global pandemic. Since then COVID-19 has claimed 928,890 deaths as of 15 September, 2020 1. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has swiftly evolved and spread across all the countries in the world. The spread of the new coronavirus is a...

Karl Marx was a professional and master of several academic disciplines but in all, he is summed up as more of a conflict theorist. According to conflict school of thought, groups are constantly competing for unequally distributed resources, such as wealth and power, each group seeking to benefit their own interest 1. Marx was an eyewitness of the...

Malawi has very few but highly attractive tourist centers and with the concerted efforts of government, tourism is becoming an essential part of the country's economy. The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) in 2017 envisaged a growth of 4.9 percent per annum for period of ten years for the Malawian tourism industry. In view of this, the study...

This study is a reconceptualization of the effects of remittances in rural communities. It uses altruism, self-interest and rational choice approach to analyze data. This study argues that narrowing the effects of remittances to family dyads and local communities has been sparing and almost ignored within the numerous literatures in the context of...