43 articles in this issue
Chahrazad N. Namane,Nahil Ismail Saqfalhait
This study aims to explore the gender gap in Algeria which consists of four dimensions: economic, educational, political, and health care through a comparative study, using a descriptive-analytical methodology. The data in this paper are extracted from gl... see more
Salah Alnahdi
The aim of this article is to analyse the perceived effect of corruption on health for a sample of 15 MENA countries over the period 1996-2018. This study used an econometric approach and a system of simultaneous equations models (SEMs) to explore relatio... see more
Farhan Abdi Omar,Abdishakur Mohamed Hussein
Prudhvi Sankar,Mousumi Bhattacharya
The P2P lending is a form of crowd-lending and is regulated by RBI as NBFC-P2P. While the P2P lending existed in India from the beginning of this decade (2011-2020), RBI brought it under its ambit through its Master Directions of 2017. The regulations are... see more
Sushant Sant,Mousumi Bhattacharya
The banking and financial services (BFSI) sector is one of the most crucial areas in any economy. It is fastest growing and the listed players in this space has given high returns to the investors over the last decade. Commercial banks in the Indian conte... see more
Shih-Yung Wei,Li-Wei Lin,Su-Rong Yan,Yun-Han Zhang
This paper studies the interaction between the exclusive assets of listed companies (except the financial industry) and the performance of listed companies in Taiwan during the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, and studies the changes of the interaction, and di... see more
Ely Susanti,Maimun Sholeh
The economic growth is one of measurements for a country to be categorized as a developed country. The basic things in economy are monetary stability and fiscal. Monetary stability can be seen from the government’s success in controlling inflation flow an... see more
Enny Kartini,Milawati Milawati
This study is aimed to show how big the impact of sukuk and conventional bond toward Indonesia’s economic growth in the period of 2011-2019 by using ARDL method to observe the impact on the short term and long term. The result of this study shows that on ... see more
Richa Shelly,Tanuj Sharma,Simerjeet Singh Bawa
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) are crucial for the economic development of any country and play a pivotal role specifically for developing countries as they regulate economic activity and generate employment thus significantly contribute i... see more
Rana Abdelhafeez Feda
In today’s financial markets, credit ratings play a significant role on the creditworthiness of firms as it represents the ability of a firm paying back debt and firm’s risk of default. The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate the impact of cr... see more
Manuel Fernandez,Mariam Mohamed Almaazmi,Robinson Joseph
Globalization has made worldwide mobility of money extremely easy. The investors prefer to invest in places that offer attractive returns and are relatively less risky. The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) gives developing countries access to cap... see more
Gurpreet Singh Sidhu,Jaskirat Singh Rai,Kanwarvir Singh Khaira,Sarabjit Kaur
COVID-19 is changing the world we live in for the worst, and almost all parts of the world are stuck with hung economies and people’s lockdown in their homes. This pandemic is not only taking a toll out of health care systems and peoples’ lives but also i... see more
Tripti Tiwari,Mohit Tiwari
Technology has always played a great role in transforming economy. From computers to Internet of Things, the technology has not only supported the business and allied areas but also has revived the economy from time to time. The current economic slowdown ... see more
Rai Imtiaz Hussain,Noor Saadah Zainal Abidin,Faridah Ibrahim,Jaspal Singh Joginder
This research founds the relative predictabilities of accruals and further disaggregated accruals– trading accruals, non-trading accruals, and financial accruals in the estimation of future cash flows. The research also examines the effect of the global f... see more
Sarbjeet Kaur,Gurcharan Singh
Finance is the strategic intent to boost the development and growth of all industries. Presently, Indian higher education has attained an impressive growth rate, and finance is playing a vital role in its continuous development and attaining a competitive... see more
D. Arpana,H.R. Swapna
Indian economy has seen various auxiliary and key changes in financial markets. While Indian economy is on development direction, there is an extensive spread realization among all in the financial range that for such development to be practical, a corres... see more
Hussain Mohammed A. Al Obaid
Against the backdrop of real estate development and rising prices, which affect the affordability of housing in Saudi Arabia, this study empirically estimates housing demand using time-series analysis from 1987 to 2016. To find the main factors affecting ... see more
Tahir Mahmood,Rana Muhammad Ayyub,Muhammad Imran,Saira Naeem,Waseem Abbas
This study examines the impact of behavioral factors over investment decision making and their performance. The primary data set collected through survey questionnaires from active investors of Pakistan stock exchange was used for the analysis. Furthermor... see more
Sooriyakumar Krishnapillai,Sarujan Sathiyamoorthy,Anushiya Sireeranhan
This paper examines the economic effects of milk powder imports on domestic milk industry and consumers’ welfare. Domestic milk production fullfilled around 40 % of the demand in 2016. The generalized inverse demand system model was employed. The result s... see more
Shoaib Imtiaz,Arshad Ali,Zeeshan Khan,Mohib Ullah,Muhammad Khan,Julija Jacquemod
Unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, is a big issue that countries are facing globally. It has been a major concern for many countries like Pakistan. In this research, we develop an empirical study on investigating the determinants affecting you... see more
Halit Basbuga,Hakan Kitapci
This study examines the effects of macroeconomic variables and the Incentive for Young and Female Employment Regulated by Law No. 6111 in Turkey on employment, informal employment, and income. Electricity consumption (economic growth), USD/TRY exchange ra... see more
Nayar Rafique,Idrees Khawaja
Being a developing country, with a hugely deprived educational profile, Pakistan is facing huge cost of its millions of uneducated and out of school population. Though we know that lack of education imposes costs on individuals and society, however no pre... see more
Imene Debbiche
This paper provides a literature review and an empirical study of the particular independent growth impact of various capital inflows in the GCC countries during the period 2005-2018. It augments the standard growth determinants with inflows of foreign di... see more
Widarti Widarti,Desfitrina Desfitrina,Zulfadhli Zulfadhli
The business process life cycle is a collection of structured work activities that are interconnected to solve a problem that results in an output (product / output) or service that achieves goals and supports the achievement of strategic goals and object... see more
Manjit Kour,Rajinder Kaur,Arshan Bhullar,Ritika Chaudhary
The green Practices have established a lot of implications in modern business. Green specifies purity through fairness in price, quality and worth in dealings. Green practices focus on producing and promoting products to satisfy the wants and needs of the... see more
Kuan-Chieh Chen
As financial technology has developed, the Chinese government has deregulated banks. The first Internet-only bank was established in 2014, but the effects of Internet-only banking on traditional banks remain unclear. However, we discussed two stages (2009... see more
Neetu Saini,Sanjeev Bansal
Liquidity is a vital character in the thriving performance of the business firm. A firm should make sure that it does not undergo from being short of or surplus liquidity position for the smooth running of the business operations. The predominant part in ... see more
Unbreen Arif,Muhammad Tayyab Sohail
The development of asset pricing model is attributed to Markowitz (1952) which initiated towards Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The whole concept of MPT based on normality of returns assumption but in emerging economies volatility of returns is an importa... see more
Asif Razzaq,Rabia Nazir,Fareeha Adil
Benjamin Kwakye,Chan Tze Haw
This research systematically reviews and evaluate literature on the interplay of the macroeconomy and house prices in the contemporary. The research recapitulates the ?ndings, data and models between and among the discussants in the extant literature to u... see more
Shahanif Hasan,Aza Azlina Md Kassim,Mohamad Ali Abdul Hamid
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the practice of earnings management as a proxy for financial reporting, especially real activities, with effect on the quality of financial statements. The role of the audit committee in mitigatin... see more
Haytem Ahmed Troug,Matt Murray
This paper examines the presence of asymmetry in the response of the Libyan economy to fluctuations in oil prices, subsequent to discovery of oil in the country. Three Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models are illustrated and estimated along with a multivari... see more
M. Ali Nasrun,Fariastuti Fariastuti,Sukma Indra
Poverty has become a significant economic problem and set as a priority of the United Nations (UN) in its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program. Likewise, it remains a problem in the province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, with its underprivileged ... see more
Arwan Gunawan,Winwin Yadiati,Harry Suharman,K. Poppy Sofia
This Study aims to examine the effect of budgetary control on the performance of budgetary absorption. The Research method used was a survey of a population comprising 548 provincial/Regency/city governments in Indonesia with 231 samples. Primary data con... see more
Faiza Haseeb,Shahzad Khan,Sajid Khan,Arif Alam,Ikram Shah
The study is based on AHP analysis to identify the feasibility of each level of schooling with respect to peace education. The AHP application presented, provided results of each relative factor or criteria to each respondent as well as the overall weight... see more
Sharil Sharma,Manpreet Kaur,Preeti Sharma,Sukhmani Sandhu
One of the main pointers of the health of any economy is its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It indicates the size of the economy. It also helps in determining and comparing the growth of economy over different periods and also with that of other economies.... see more
Anita Mirchandani,Namrata Gupta,Esinath Ndiweni
The recent rise in the number of ‘Fintech’ companies is set to transform the financial services industry on a global scale. Fintech companies create more competitive advantages in the financial market by providing faster services in the field of payment, ... see more
Muhammad Shabbir,Imrab Shaheen,Fahrat Qayyum
This study has been conducted to find out the impact of political and economic variables on domestic investment of Pakistan. For this purpose secondary data for thirty five years has been collected according to the variables of this study. To analyze the ... see more
Fatima Zahra Bendriouch,Harit Satt,Mohamed M’hamdi
The purpose of this study is to examine the existing relationship between Islamic banks’ performance and economic growth in GCC countries. In this quest, this paper attempts to examine whether Islamic banks contribute to the economic growth. We develop a ... see more
Yomna Daoud,Aida Kammoun
The purpose of this research is to empirically analyze Islamic Bank's financial stability, which consists in assessing the possible relationship between the risk of default (measured by z-score) and capital ratios while considering specific internal bank ... see more
Eric Mokwaro Bosire
Infrastructure development is an essential element in economic growth and development. Good infrastructure fosters low transaction costs hence making production efficient and attracting foreign direct investments. However, there has not been adequate scho... see more
David K. Chalmers,Marco Della Porta,Luca Sensini
The aim of this study was to contribute to the literature debate on financial behavior and corporate capital structure by focusing on two aspects. First of all, we analyzed how the intensity of exports and therefore the percentage weight of foreign sales ... see more
Abdur Rauf,Hafiz Muhammad Abubakar Siddique,Qasim Saleem,Sidra Sidra
The association among terrorism and tourism is crucial from the macroeconomic perspective as tourism is considered as a vital sector regarding developmental impacts. This analysis conducted to extract the influence of terrorism on tourism in Pakistan, exp... see more