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- ItemDO INVESTMENT AND EXPORT AFFECT ECONOMIC GROWTH? A CASE OF ZANZIBAR(Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 2024-02-28) HAJI, Iddi SalumThis paper investigated the effect of investment and exports on economic growth in Zanzibar. The study used secondary data obtained Zanzibar statistical abstracts downloaded from website of the Office of Chief Government Statistician and other resources from different websites, the data covered the period from 2006 to 2020.The data was tested for unit root, cointegration and causality and was found to stationary at the first deference, variables have long run relationship and no bidirectional granger causality running from investment and export to economic. The regression revealed that investment and export have positive and significant effect on economic growth, hence investments and exports have a strong positive relationship with economic growth, the study suggested that the increase in both investments and exports would lead to an increase in economic growth, the regression was also tested for diagnostic and stability tests the results revealed that the there is no serial correlation and the data was normally distributed.
- ItemEFFECTS OF FOREIGN BANKS PRESENCE ON EMERGING ECONOMIES: EVIDENCE FROM TANZANIA(Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, 2023-06-30) HAJI, Iddi SalumForeign banks presence has increased rapidly since 1990 where emerging economies lifted restrictions in their financial systems. Currently the ownership of foreign banks in many developing countries is more than 50%. Academically the positive effects of foreign banks participation are widely accepted in these emerging markets. However unlike studies of foreign investment in real sectors, little has been done to understand the negative effects from foreign banks to domestic banks and society in general. The importance of such understanding is crucial, especially after the break out of the global financial crisis and pandemic Covid 19 which raises certain concerns regarding the market – driven model of these emerging markets. The paper highlights this trend and survey the existing literature in order to explore the effects of foreign banks presence in emerging economies paying particular attention to Tanzania banking sector. It has been observed that; Competition and efficiency, stability and access to credits are among the effects that have been influenced by foreign banks participation. The descriptive results also revealed that foreign banks perform better in term of ROA and ROE than domestic banks in Tanzania during 2017 – 2021, but the performance of foreign banks is unstable and risky as compared to domestic banks. Keywords: Foreign banks presence, Domestic banks, Emerging Economies, Return on Asset, Return on Equity.
- ItemA COMPARISON OF THE ENERGY POLICIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE OF TANZANIA AND CHINA(International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanitie, 2013-10-01) HAJI, Iddi SalumThis paper intended to compare energy policy issues in developing countries by comparing Tanzania and China. The comparison showed that there are differences in policy implementations between the two countries due to different levels of development and their pursuance of energy policies with different goals and strategies. China is more developed in the renewable energy sector and energy efficiency but has a higher CO2 emission while Tanzania has less CO2 emission, energy inefficiency and renewable energy at early stag