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African exchange rates amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
by Turki Rashed Alshammari
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The study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on African exchange rates, employing a panel dataset over the period 2016-2022 from 13 African economies and employing pooled OLS estimator. The findings reveal a noteworthy positive correlation between COVID-19 levels and exchange rates within the region. However, this association necessitates deeper exploration due to its multifac [...] Read more

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COVID-19 and SMEs deposits with commercial banks: evidence from African economies
by Abdulazeez Y.H. Saif-Alyousfi
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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 on Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) deposits across 13 African nations from 2016 to 2022, using a seven-year dataset and Ordinary Least Squares estimator. Notably, it uncovers a significant positive link between the pandemic and SMEs deposits, indicating heightened reserves amidst economic uncertainty, potentially driven by ri [...] Read more

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The Impact of Climate Change on Actual Output in Some Selected Countries in Africa: A Specific Focus on Greenhouse Gas Emission
by Richard Umeokwobi , John Owusu-Afriye  and  John Abu
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This study seeks to investigate how climate change affects actual output in African countries, using greenhouse gas emission as a case study. This paper uses the actual output of Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, The Gambia, Cabo Verde, and Sierra Leone for the analysis. Climate change is proxied by greenhouse gas emission, which are extracted from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Research and Macroeconomic Management Department, West African Institute of Financial and Economic Management, Lagos, Nigeria

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External Reserve and the Elasticity of Substitution between Domestic and Foreign Investment in Africa
by Richard Umeokwobi , Victor Ocheni  and  Isah Auwal
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The Paper investigates the elasticity of substitution between foreign direct investment (FDI) and private domestic investment on the external reserves of some selected 14 African countries. To achieve the objective of the best substitutability of investment suitable for Africa, using data on gross fixed capital formation as a proxy for private domestic investment, inflatio [...] Read more

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Access to Electricity and Primary Education Nexus in Central Africa
by Arsene Mouongue Kelly , Beatrice Laure Toukap Yimele , Nidel Lolita Wassou Tchieu  and  Pascal Ndyanabo Rutazihana
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Access to electricity, a fundamental element of contemporary life, is essential for economic success. Its impact extends to the fundamental foundations of industrial development and has the power to improve a wide range of industries, including healthcare, transportation, utilities, and education. This article aims to analyse the effect of electricity access on primary educatio [...] Read more

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Public Diplomacy and Chinese OFDI: Empirical Evidence from the Africa
by Xinjian Ye , Zhuolin Wu , Shuocong Gu  and  Shikuan Zhao
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Public diplomacy is a significant factor in promoting policy communication, people-to-people bonds, and the protection of foreign assets between two nations, but there is little research on the economic worth of public diplomacy. Python was used to crawl the daily search frequency of "China", "African countries", and related terms to construct the heat index of China-Africa pub [...] Read more

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Renewable Energy and Ecological Sustainability in Africa: Does Foreign Debt and Financial Globalisation Matter?
by Magaji Yakubu  and  Samson Aladejare
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Since the last decade, ecological preservation has become a critically debated topic in developing and developed nations. Hence, to ensure environmental sustainability, countries and international bodies have canvassed for measures that support severe restrictions to protect the Earth's biodiversity. This study's objectives were two-fold: the sole effect of renewable energy on [...] Read more

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Tax effect of digital economy development in China: The policy effect and transmission mechanism
by Jun Mao , Jianmin Liu  and  Zhiyuan Liu
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The development of digital economy is becoming an important path to promote the kinetic energy of China's tax revenue development. Based on the panel data from 2011 to 2018, this paper uses Gini coefficient to analyze the regional differences of China's digital economy, and uses fixed effect model, spatial Durbin model, multi-period double difference model and other empirical m [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
School of Economy and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China

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Transitioning from Interest Rate to GDP Growth Rate for More Sustainable Equitable Economy
by Samir Alamad
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Exiting literature and central banks have recently raised concerns about the ominous overlooked threat of growing global debt, and its fundamental role in financial crises and economic instability. This paper develops and models an alternative economic theory that calls for a paradigm shift from the prevailing debt-based financial economy. Through a structured literature review [...] Read more

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Effects of Financial Inclusion on Economic Growth: Evidence from MENA Countries
by A. Talha Yalta  and  A. Yasemin Yalta
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In recent years, financial inclusion has taken center stage in policy discussions regarding achieving higher growth rates and reducing poverty levels. The existing literature analyzing the relationship between financial inclusion and GDP growth mostly assumes a one-way relation from financial inclusion to GDP, often ignoring potential reverse causality. Furthermore, the literat [...] Read more

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The impact of digital economy development on local fiscal revenue efficiency
by Haixiang Xiao  and  Jiayi Liu
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The vigorous development of the digital economy has brought new opportunities and challenges to the construction of local fiscal revenue efficiency. Based on the panel data from 2011 to 2020, this paper uses the fixed effect model, instrumental variable method and other empirical studies to investigate the impact of the development of the digital economy on the efficiency of lo [...] Read more

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Interactive influence of house prices and the repo rate on household debt in South Africa
by Juniours Marire
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The recent interest rate policy decisions of the South African Reserve Bank have been criticized significantly by left-leaning political parties and civic society organisations for being anti-poor, anti-labour, and pro-capital because of their implications for household debt. Existing literature has established that interest rates and house prices are insignificant determinants [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Digital economy, entrepreneurial activity, and common prosperity: Evidence from China
by Tongtong Zhao , Fangyi Jiao  and  Zhongwei Wang
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Based on the provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2019 for a total of 9 years, this paper uses the entropy method to construct a comprehensive measure of the digital economy and common prosperity. We theoretically analyzed the impact mechanism of the digital economy on common prosperity using the econometric model. The study found that the digital economy can significant [...] Read more

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Has the development of the digital economy increased corporate financial asset holdings? --A quasi-natural experiment based on the "Broadband China" policy
by Xiuhai Huang  and  Zhenyu Xu
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A differences-in-differences (DID) model and financial data from Chinese listed firms from 2011 to 2019 are used to empirically investigate the effects of the digital economy on corporate financial asset holdings using the "Broadband China" policy as a quasi-natural experiment. After robustness testing and heterogeneity effects are disposed of, the digital economy dramatically [...] Read more

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Digital Economy and Energy Intensity: The Light and Dark Side
by Zheng-Yuan Yang  and  Lei Ye
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The digital economy exerts both positive and negative influences on urban sustainable development, yet there is a notable gap in the existing research concerning its impact on energy intensity and the underlying mechanisms. this study pioneers the investigation of a nonlinear relationship between the digital economy and energy intensity, revealing a significant inverted U-shape [...] Read more

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Research on the Effect of Digital Economy Development on Local Financial Pressure
by Baolin Song , Xinrui Hu , Hang Zhang , Yanchen Gao  and  Yuan Guo
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The vigorous development of the digital economy provides a new research perspective for alleviating local financial pressure. Based on the provincial panel data from 2013 to 2020, the mediating effect model and threshold regression model were used to explore the effect and mechanism of the digital economy on local fiscal pressure. The research shows that the digital economy has [...] Read more

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Digital economy drives the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry in Hebei province
by Shi Yin , Jianfang Li , Jiayi Yin  and  Tahir Mahmood
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In the context of digital economy, Hebei Province, as an important province in central China, has a huge manufacturing base and potential, and the development of digital economy has driven the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry to a certain extent. In order to better play the driving role of digital economy in the transformation and upgrading of manufacturin [...] Read more

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Pseudocode and algorithms for computer simulations of democratically planned economies
by Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The claim that “there is no third way” besides the economic models of capitalism and communism has faced a challenge from a new and growing body of research into a “third way” economic paradigm known as democratic planning. In this paper, we explore one of these democratic planning models–Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert’s model of a participa [...] Read more

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Unraveling the impact of energy demand and exports on environment and economy: A case study of South Asian Economies
by Kiran Batool , Muhammad Adeel  and  Abdulhalim Musa Abubakar
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This study employs empirical analysis using an econometric model that examines the interdependence among environmental degradation, exports, and economic development with energy use. It also provides an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for selected South Asian economies utilizing time-series data. The findings reveal a long-term, stable equilibrium link between energy demand a [...] Read more

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Money holding and budget deficit in a growing economy with consumers living forever
by Yasuhito Tanaka
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I examine the problem of budget deficit in a growing economy in which consumers hold money as a part of their savings in the case where consumers live forever. For simplicity and tractability I use a discrete time dynamic model and Lagrange multiplier method. In the appendix I briefly explain the solution using a discrete time version of the Hamiltonian method. I will show the [...] Read more