Browsing by Author "Sungsoo, Kim"

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    The Effect of Diaspora Remittances on Economic Growth in Malawi
    (Journal of Area Studies, 2017) Chivundu, Renata; Suphian, Robert; Sungsoo, Kim
    This paper examines the effect of Diasporas’ remittance on economic growth in Malawi by using an auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model or Bound Testing approach. The study employed time series data for Malawi from 1985 to 2015. The outcome of the study revealed that, the impact of Diasporas’ remittances during the study period is positive and significant. Besides this, the other growth determinant factor which was found positive and has significant effect on economic growth of Malawi was official development assistance (ODA) while population growth was significant but negatively affected growth. The effect of other determinant factors on economic growth of Malawi happened to be insignificant. This study therefore recommends that the government of Malawi should work on policies which would encourage the Malawians in the Diaspora to remit more to their country. This includes easing the receiving processes of remittances, introducing dual citizenship, and engaging Diaspora in the development plan of Malawi.
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    Official Development Assistance and Economic Growth in East African Countries
    (The Journal of Peace Studies, South Korea, 2017) Robert, Suphian; Sungsoo, Kim
    Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya have been receiving larger amount of official development assistance (ODA) compared to the rest of the East African Community countries. Therefore this study aims at assessing the impact of ODA on economic growth for to those three East African Community countries for the last 35 years from 1980-2014. The study employed the autoregressive distribution lag (ARDL) approach geared by Eviews9 application software for all estimations with the inclusion of other important independent variables like terms of trade, foreign direct investment, education and health. All countries’ ODA estimated results confirmed to have positive and significant effect on their economic growth. Just in the short run, ODA flowing to Kenya and Uganda proved to have a negative significant effect on the economic growth. However in the long run both countries’ ODA effects were positive. Tanzania had a significant positive effect for short and long run. In line with ODA, education and health found to have positive significant short and long run effects on the economic growth of East African countries. However in the previous years the human development factors were negatively affecting the growth, therefore the reverse suggested signs of improvements in the human development.