Thomas Habanabakize is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the school of Economics and Finance at Tshwane University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Economics from North-West University. Before joining The Tshwane University of technology, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the North-West University where he published several articles within accredited international Journal. His research interests include the effects of macroeconomic variables in developing personal and societal well-being, financial economic and country risk impact on national economic growth, econometric modelling and forecasting, industrialization and job creation. He has published several papers on the aforementioned topics and he is currently buy with book chapters.