Volume 5, Issue 1 (2013) | American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

Partial Equilibrium Analysis to Determine the Impacts of a Southern African Customs Union-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement on Botswana’s Imports

Buyani Thomy — 2013-09-04

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2013.1.14

Botswana along with its Southern African Customs Union (SACU) states is negotiating a European Union (SACU-EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The negotiations are contentious both within SACU a...

Achieving Business Sustainability Via I-TOP Model

Rajendran Muthuveloo — 2013-09-04

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2013.15.21

In the world of business, the competition is getting stiffer and stiffer daily. Sustainability has become an issue. In view of this the company and the organization has to be efficient in managing tim...

Single-Digit Inflation Targeting and Economic Growth

Richard Ayisi — 2013-09-04

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2013.22.28

In recent times, most central banks have adopted inflation-targeting monetary policy approach aimed primarily to achieve single-digit inflation. Though, the literature suggest that low level of inflat...

Retail Bankruptcy Prediction

Johnny Pang — 2013-09-13

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 13 September 2013; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2013.29.46

This study reintroduces the famous discriminant functions from Edward Altman and Begley, Ming and Watts (BMW) that were used to predict bankrupts. We will formulate three new discriminant functions wh...