2026 October - 69 articles
Growth in registered membership is often taken as evidence that microfinance expands financial inclusion, but it does not show whether members use financing or whether that financing keeps its value when prices rise. This study examines the Rural Dev...
Economic security, understood as the capacity of an economy to sustain stable material living conditions for its households when adverse shocks occur, has become a central policy concern across the G-20. This paper examines the macroeconomic correlat...
Corruption research encompasses institutional, organizational, economic, and sociopolitical indicators that are related but not interchangeable. This study identifies literature-derived corruption-related indicators, assesses their content relevance...
Money laundering associated with international trade is known as trade-based money laundering (TBML). Estimating, quantifying and identifying macroeconomic determinants of TBML is vital to provide an indication of illegal financial activity. The main...
Digital financial inclusion (DFI) may enhance economic participation, but its association with income depends on financial usage, institutional conditions, and cross-country heterogeneity. This study examines log GDP per capita in 37 Organisation of...
The expansion of the air transportation sector, which offers significant advantages in terms of time efficiency and spatial accessibility, plays a critical role in promoting economic growth. In turn, in economies experiencing sustained growth, the de...
The currency in which exporters invoice determines who bears exchange-rate risk and how exchange-rate movements pass through to prices. We study how imported inputs and macroeconomic risk shape this choice, using detailed customs data on exporters in...
The decarbonization of electricity generation transfers a system-level transformation onto a few regions whose productive structure was built around fossil generation. Such regions are expected to adjust through job losses and the reallocation of lab...
Entrepreneurship plays an important role in structural transformation, employment generation, and productivity growth. This study examines how digital infrastructure, national innovation capacity, and institutional quality are associated with formal...
Economic complexity theory predicts a positive correlation between export sophistication and export value, but this is rarely examined within a specific bilateral trading relationship, where trade fragmentation and value-chain restructuring play out....
Prior research has examined public expenditure, governance and youth unemployment largely in isolation, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies remain under-covered. This paper therefore examines the effect of government spending on you...
International trade is undergoing a major transformation driven by geopolitical tensions, the adoption of stringent regulatory frameworks, and the growing incorporation of sustainability criteria; therefore, explaining bilateral trade flows through t...
This study examines the association between perceived green fiscal incentives and Perceived Household Outcome in Uzbekistan, focusing on households’ perceptions of production-based subsidies and tax incentives under the “Solar Home”...
The convergence development of urban–rural logistics is of great significance for narrowing the divide and promoting the exchange between urban and rural areas. The digital economy has emerged as an effective pathway to break down the industrial boun...
This study examines the dynamic association between macroeconomic fundamentals, housing-market risk, seasonal conditions, selective credit controls, and housing-market liquidity across Taiwan’s six metropolitan housing markets. Using quarterly...
We assess two Albania–Greece corridor channels: visitor expenditure in Greece and Greece-origin finance potentially supporting Albanian capital formation. Bilateral visitor-receipt data complement immediate-partner direct investment liability t...
This study examines whether the relationship between banks’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and loan growth varies with monetary-policy conditions. Using an annual panel of listed U.S. and European banks over 2016–...
The Syrian civil war forced millions of people to flee their homes, with Jordan becoming one of the principal host countries. The resulting refugee influx placed considerable pressure on public services, labor markets, infrastructure, and household r...
This paper examines the distributional structure of permanent-disability pensions through an integrated actuarial decomposition of award records. Using microdata from the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales, MCVL),...
We ask what artificial intelligence (AI) is actually doing to macroeconomic growth in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and by what route. Three channels are considered: efficiency gains, wider financial inclusion, and lower transaction costs. The pap...
The development of stock markets can influence both economic growth and environmental sustainability, yet whether financial market expansion can achieve these objectives simultaneously remains unclear in emerging economies. This study examines the ef...
This research analyzes the income gap between self-employed workers in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador’s two largest urban labor markets. Using 2025 National Survey of Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment (ENEMDU) data for 23,215 self-emp...
Rapid digitalization is reshaping labor markets, yet its effects on occupational polarization remain underexplored in emerging economies. This study investigates how internet use and digital technology adoption influence occupational outcomes across...
Productive artificial intelligence (AI) creates the possibility that an accumulable capital stock supplies services that can substitute for human labour in production. This paper develops a recursive search-and-matching general-equilibrium model in w...
This study examines the relationship between economic globalization and female labor force participation in six post-Soviet economies over the period 1991–2023. Using the economic dimension of the KOF Globalisation Index, the study applies the...
This study analyzes the linkage between the higher education budget, college enrollment, and economic growth in Indonesia. Using a simultaneous equation model estimated with Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS) over the 1974–2024 period, this study...
Using comparative data for Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States over 2019–2023, this study examines conditional associations between Financial Technology (FinTech), digital infrastructure, and higher-edu...
As a new factor of production, the data element’s role in reshaping regional development patterns remains to be thoroughly revealed. Drawing on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces for the period 2013–2024, this paper systematically inves...
Financial development is widely regarded as a driver of economic development in Africa, yet the conditioning role of institutional quality has not been systematically synthesised. This systematic review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020 guide...
This study examines whether financial development affects economic growth asymmetrically in Algeria using annual data for 1980–2020. Algeria represents a particularly relevant case because its hydrocarbon dependence, bank-based financial system...
Rural revitalization plays an important role in reducing urban–rural disparities and promoting inclusive regional development in China. This study appraises the coordinated development of agricultural new-quality productive forces and rural rev...
This study analyzes Kazakhstan’s tourism competitiveness through a descriptive and comparative design, drawing on the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI), the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI), and national and internatio...
Evaluating the structural stability of the relationships between inflation, unemployment, and interest rates is vital for central banks striving to fulfill their dual mandates within an evolving economic landscape. This study evaluates whether the em...
Between 2022 and 2025, Ecuador’s non-oil exports reached record levels while formal employment stayed near its historical low. Using quarterly data, we estimate the dynamic effect of oil and non-oil export shocks on the quantity and quality of...
The rapid expansion of digital financial services has strengthened digital financial inclusion by overcoming limitations of traditional finance. However, evidence on the long-run relationship between digital financial inclusion and economic growth re...
The wage consequences of digitalization have received far less systematic study than its effects on growth and productivity. Skill-biased technological change theory suggests that this relationship may be nonlinear and institutionally contingent rath...
Climate change poses significant threats to water availability, energy security, and food production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), undermining sustainable development and increasing the vulnerability of communities that are dependent on climate-sensit...
This study estimates spatial Durbin models to examine the relationship between digital financial inclusion and carbon emissions across 21 cities in Guangdong Province from 2011 to 2020. Using four alternative spatial weight matrices, the analysis eva...
Background: The government’s health expenditure in the European Union is determined by a number of factors, including economic capacity, financing arrangements, demographic pressures, health needs, environmental exposure, and labour-market cond...
This study examines long-term changes in the volume-based production structure of a balanced basket of 19 crops in Kazakhstan from 2000 to 2024. Annual FAOSTAT production volumes were used to calculate the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), Dive...
In Somalia’s conflict-affected, climate-vulnerable economy, conventional monetary poverty measures capture only part of household welfare because they overlook simultaneous deprivations in education, health, and living standards. This study exa...
Despite the progress in income, education, fertility rates, and institutional reform, female labour force participation (FLFP) remains relatively low in the Western Balkans (WB-6) compared across different economies, while the region is facing popula...
This study examines the relationship between Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and economic growth in eight selected member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over 2007–2023. Using annual growth in re...
This paper examines the electricity–growth–CO2 nexus across six Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) economies plus Panama over 1980–2023, with particular attention to cross-co...
The collective share of inland passenger transport has remained remarkably stagnant across the European Union over the past two decades, despite an expanding policy architecture aimed at accelerating modal shift. The objective of this study is to ide...
Vulnerable employment remains one of the most persistent obstacles to inclusive development in emerging economies, yet the joint influence of globalization, migration, and remittances on employment quality has received limited attention in second-gen...
Canada Post faces a structural financial crisis driven by declining letter-mail volumes, rising operating costs, intensifying parcel competition, and the rapid transformation of logistics through artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This pape...
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is a multifaceted endeavor seeking domestic energy price reforms, mobilization of green finance, and non-oil economic diversification, yet the interplay of these three pillars has not been empirically tested. This stu...
Trade globalization is increasingly being reassessed through the lens of the green transition, as openness to international markets does not necessarily imply environmentally sustainable integration. The objective of this study was to assess whether...
Developing and emerging economies seek Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to support economic growth. Grounded in Dunning’s eclectic paradigm and North’s institutional theory, this study examines whether institutional quality moderates the a...
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