Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
Ghana’s hopes of increasing export trade volumes and destinations to domestic economies within the African continent in order to foster growth and climb the economic ladder to become a middle income country is very much achievable. However, this objective to a great extent depends on regional integration and cooperation rather than the efforts of one single country or economy. Intermediary influencers such as distance play a major role in determining export destinations for Ghana, whilst endogenous issues like customs procedures and border related issues, tariffs and import quotas, and trade restrictions within the importing countries heavily affect Ghana’s trade volumes and destinations within the region. Thus the establishment of robust economic bodies and platforms to institutionalize universal trade regulations and reforms to enhance effective trade among member countries and reduce trade transactional processes, lengthy customs procedures and trade restrictions will not only affect Ghana positively but all other domestic economies within the region. Enjoying an effective export trade will also come as a result of the continent investing heavily in infrastructural development, complemented with effective transportation systems, better service provision via advanced technologies and human capital development....
This study aims to evaluate the consumer’s buying behaviours in online shopping sites in Bangladesh. This study follows a mixed-method approach where the researchers collected primary data from the questionnaire survey and in-depth interview of the customers who buy services from the e-commerce site. The findings from the cross-sectional study revealed positive effect (P-value > 0.005) of Psychographic Indicators (0.049); Economic Indicators (0.339); and Socio-cultural Indicators (0.297) coefficients on customer satisfaction towards e-commerce. However, the demographic factor is not statistically significant (P-value > 0.005) and does not put any impact (0.321) on customer satisfaction....
The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between online repurchase intention and security, trust, ease of use (EOU) and privacy concerns mediated by e-satisfaction. Since there are few studies that explain online repurchase intention in developing countries. This study is based on Sri Lankan online shoppers. A survey method is used for respondents’ age between 18 - 32 years. To test the hypothesis of this study, a questionnaire is distributed to participants. The data are analyzed using SPSS software which is used to test the model and the hypothesis. The results showed that ease of use and privacy concerns are the factors that have the greatest impact on consumers’ buying behavior. In addition, online satisfaction is important for the group in this study and the results show that it impacts on the relationship between repurchase intention and other factors. This study presents the impact of security, trust, ease of use and privacy concerns on the online repurchase intention of the younger generation. Further, the mediation effect of e-satisfaction is also analyzed....
This article identifies key factors that can reduce customs fraud by analyzing the correlations that exist in front of certain dependent variables, namely language, cultural contact, intra linguistic and anthropological, sustainable human development, sale, purchase, transportation, declaration of primary products (food crops), and the relationship between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, their institutional framework with a specific application to the case of Kasumbalesa border. Our research presented and discussed the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. We have structured our analysis on the subject around five axes, based on estimates of equations that measure the vehicle of linguistic patterns, cultural, anthropological and business, institutional efficiency and socio-economic conditions. We first studied the impact of languages on cross-border trade, then the influence of this one on the sale, purchase, transportation and declaration of supposed primary products and finally the influence of it on the emergence of customs fraud. From this analysis, it emerges from the results that borders are not limits in themselves, but quite the contrary of gateways, voices of linguistic, anthropological and cultural continuity. Language, with all of its components, is the key that traders use for performance in cross-border trade. This one can facilitate fraud at all levels at customs and if is taken as a cultural mechanism by the state to strengthen existing traditional mechanisms, it can help to fight fraud. A tax evasion with a well-orchestrated fraud is seen on the pedestrian street commonly called Bilanga by some users. The increase in trade volumes for primary products should in principle lead to a relative improvement in the level of revenue generated by the Congolese state, but unfortunately the opposite is seen. The business environment is very relevant in view of the theoretical foundations compared to the existing economic model, based on economic and sociolinguistic liberalism....
Liberia is labeled at the peak considered as one of the poorest countries in the world. Therefore, Liberia needs to take an effective trade policy approach to promote both domestic and international trade facilitation if it is to achieve sustainable and further economic growth. International trade is the engine for economic development, and it has become one of many economic discussions not only among West African States and member countries but globally that Liberia is no exception to since exports-trade leads to GDP growth and economic development. As a result of frequent trade deficits and Liberia’s economic reliance on extractive commodities for trade in agricultural goods, the study sought to analyze the role of exports-trade on economic growth and development with regard to Liberia. The study was conducted using secondary data generated from the World Bank Development Indicators (WBDI) for the period 2000-2019. The study employed a time series regression model of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and technique by Stock and Wilson (1988) to analyze Liberia’s trade performance using macroeconomic indicators/ variables that have an effect on economic growth, such as, Exports, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Population growth, Imports, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, (GFCF) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the key indicators of analysis. The regression results obtained from the study on the Ordinary Least Squares tests show a linear association and a straight-line relationship among the variables, namely: export, foreign direct investment, population and economic growth in Liberia. With the estimated results, import has a negative impact and relationship with Liberia’s GDP growth. The effect of export was positive and highly statistically significant....
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