Services as a Determinant of Botswana's Economic Sustainability
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F22%3A92831" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/22:92831 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/22/15401" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/22/15401</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215401" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph192215401</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Services as a Determinant of Botswana's Economic Sustainability
Original language description
In 2015, the services sector contributed about 58 percent to the gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which was a significant increase from the 47,6 percent observed in 2005, and a shift from the mining, agriculture, and manufacturing sector. This increase calls to support services as the catalyst for sustained economic development as indicated by the structural transformation and modernization theories. The main objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between and the impact of services on the economic development in Botswana and make recommendations on how Botswana can apply well-directed policies to improve its services sector and diversify its impact on other sectors and GDP, making it less reliant on mining which is vulnerable to price volatilities. The paper applied econometric modeling and results of the Autoregressive-Distributed Lag Bounds test for cointegration indicate that services and other industries services, agriculture, industry, mining, and investment i
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Agriculture-BASEL
ISSN
2077-0472
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
22
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
0-0
UT code for WoS article
000888110000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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