16 articles in this issue
Sessinou Erick Abel Dedehouanou,Abou Kane
For decades, the literature on the relationship between official development assistance (ODA) and economic growth is characterized by ambiguity. This study removes such ambiguity for West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries by considerin... see more
Hind Lebdaoui,Youssef Chetioui,Elias Guechi
This paper aims to investigate the impact of behavioral biases and financial literacy on investment performance in an emerging stock market context. Based on data collected from a sample of 196 Moroccan investors operating in Casablanca stock exchange, we... see more
Otong Suhyanto,Bambang Juanda,Akhmad Fauzi,Ernan Rustiadi
Regional autonomy intended to enhance the level of community involvement in the development process, the distribution of development outcomes fairly, and pay more attention to the potential and diversity of the region. The implementation of regional auton... see more
Mukhlis Mukhlis,Bernadette Robiani,Dirta Pratama Atiyatna
The pattern of the spread of small food industries in Palembang show has led to the establishment of concentration patterns or clusters. This is evident from the grouping type of food industries in certain regions of the city of Palembang. The pattern of ... see more
Mongi Lassoued
This paper examines the effects of microfinance, financial development and foreign aid on income inequality for 43 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Panel data for the period 1995–2015 is examined using fixed effects, pooled ordinary least square and s... see more
Mehmet Canakci
Understanding the interaction between growth and inflation is at the top of the macroeconomic problems. Whether inflation has an impact on growth has been debated for many years in economics literature. The content of these discussions has changed dependi... see more
Lilian Tomu,Knowledge Mutodi,Tinashe Chuchu,Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri
This paper investigates the impact of dollarization policy on Zimbabwe exports over a period of 20 years. The study used panel data for 50 Zimbabwe potential historical trading partners. Random Effects Model (REM) was applied to estimate the gravity model... see more
Rusdi Rusdi,Harianto Harianto,Sri Hartoyo,Tanti Novianti
Coconut farmers are always faced with risks, including the risk of production and price risk. This production risk causes the productivity of the head to decline. In addition, the price risk faced by farmers will also have an impact on the income received... see more
Christine Mawia Julius,Timothy C. Okech
The purpose of the study was to examine the moderating effect of government regulation on the joint influence of water pricing, infrastructure financing, utility efficiency and subsidies on financial sustainability of Water Service Providers (WSPs) in Ken... see more
Hai Long,Wenwei Li
The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted on the global economy since 2020. This paper employs regression models to investigate China’s economy structure and sustainability of deep determinants, such as human capital, business environment. It finds that the c... see more
Ali Trabelsi Karoui,Aida Kammoun
This paper represents a new approach in the exchange rate determination by using microstructural and macroeconomic variables. We test a combination of fundamentals and microstructure variables in cointegrated relationship of the USD/JPY and USD/GBP curren... see more
Kishor K. Guru-Gharana,Matiur Rahman,Anisul M. Islam
This paper empirically examines the causal linkages of Japan’s stock market (proxied by Nikkei 225 index) performance with selected key macroeconomic fundamentals. Relatively recent Toda-Yamamoto and Dolado-Lutkepohl, multivariate Granger causality tests ... see more
Ogujiuba Kanayo
The Agricultural sector in South Africa is amongst the main contributors to job-creation South Africa. Since the post-apartheid era, South Africa has seen a severe transformation in this sector, of which previously disadvantaged farmers (especially women)... see more
Innocent Asuquo,Arigor John Arigor,Emmanuel Okon Eyo
The study examined agricultural investments in the light of deregulating the cost of funds. Factors that determine aggregate credit volume to the sector within the costs of funds regulated and deregulated periods and; the growth level in agricultural cred... see more
Jamel Boukhatem
Due to its distinctive features and investment quality, sukuk as an Islamic alternative to bond financing, have known last decades a worldwide interest and a rapid widespread, particularly after the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Despite the global ma... see more
Siphat Lim
The purchasing power parity (PPP) is generally accepted as the exchange rate projection between two countries relative to their inflation rate. However, despites many researches in the past years, the answer to whether the PPP holds, remains an on-going d... see more