The article aims to reveal that the relationship of the bitcoin-derived exchange rate with the inflation level in a crisis-driven economy allows the citizens to use bitcoin as a “survival” asset. We analyse data on bitcoin transactions in local currencies of selected African economies (Ghana, K... Read More

One approach to tackling environmental problems and achieving environmental sustainability goals is to boost the tourism industry, but this paradigm is also contested. Using the recently developed novel dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) simulations framework, this study evaluates t... Read More

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows within developing countries are rising. This article investigates whether FDI from emerging markets (EM) contributed to the domestic capital formation in Africa and how this compares to flows from developed countries. Fixed-effect estimates, based on panel ... Read More

Several factors including poverty, productivity shocks, labor market imperfections and parental education account for the incidence of child labour. However, little is known about the impact of financial inclusion on children’s propensity to work in the Ghanaian context. Using ordinary least sq... Read More

This study examines the extent to which the exchange rate regime affect the competitiveness of exports in Nigeria between 1987 to 2019. The study employed the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to assess the short-run and long-run changes in competitiveness in response to the exchange... Read More

This paper identifies how loan portfolio characteristics impact the financial performance and sustainability of Moroccan microfinance institutions (MFIs). Using the Mix Market dataset, fixed and random panel regression models were adopted to analyze six Moroccan MFIs between 2003 and 2018. Thes... Read More

This study extends the growing body of research that explores the relationship between corporate governance compliance and the performance of the firm by examining the Nigerian context with respect to the listed non-financial firms from 2012 to 2019. This study developed the first unique NCGCI ... Read More

Asset pricing has attracted innumerable attention from many stakeholders in capital markets. However, a considerable lack of consensus exists regarding the full list and identity of risk factors and the ability of the already studied risk factors to optimally price risk. This problem is pronoun... Read More

Malawi adopted orthodox neoliberal economic policies in 1981 to replace Keynesian-based demand management, developmental state, and protectionist policies. However, the sub-period from 2004 to 2012 witnessed some reversion to elements of the pre-liberalisation period. This paper analyses the re... Read More

This study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique and the error correction model (ECM) to investigate the long-run and short-run associations between export performance and macroeconomic variables in Morocco. These macroeconomic variables are GDP growth, real effective exchang... Read More

The 2010-2019 period was marked by a steady depreciation of the Tunisian Dinar (TND) against the two major international currencies: a depreciation rate of 95% against the United States Dollar (USD) and 63% against the euro (EUR). To examine whether this depreciation is caused by a discrete man... Read More

This study examined the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on trade in Zimbabwe for the period 03/2020 to 06/2022. The pandemic necessitated the enforcement of lockdown measures. Prudent as they are, they brought several socio-economic problems. However, during this period, trade outperformed the pre... Read More

n her book Ecological Imperialism, Development, and the Capitalist World-System, Mariko Lin Frame, assistant professor of economics, attempts to demonstrate how the dynamics of the global economy are driving environmental degradation and perpetuating inequalities in the Global South. At a time... Read More