This study provides an ex-ante computable general equilibrium assessment of the planned Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development. Community. The analytical...

Vietnam is a developing country with a fixed exchange rate regime and the use of foreign currency is under control of the monetary authorities. Hence, like other developing countries, Vietnam also has the parallel exchange market that exists together with the official exchange market though, it...

Our paper uses a new and comprehensive dataset to investigate the capital structure of non-financial firms in a major emerging market economy, Turkey. We study both statistical and economic significance of four types of leverage factors: Firm-specific, tax-related, industry specific,and...

This work is based on 2 working papers, produced within the NEUJOBS project (www.neujobs.eu). We studied the impact of a number of transport policies in the EU, focussing on the interaction of transport with the labour market. The objective was to determine: - if policies towards promoting...

Thailand and the Laos PDR have a very long border of 1,810 kilometers which has been involved with international economic transactions in terms of trade, investment, tourism and passenger transportation over a long period. There are 36 custom check points allowing passenger transportation...

The Egyptian revolution broke out in January 25, 2011, a revolution that sparked the national movements in the Arab world, and impressed the world as a model of an unprecedented popular peaceful uprising included all the spectrums of Egypt's society. It revolution addressed all forms of...

Establishing a full-fledged input-output tables and carry out various impact and alternative scenarios for socio-economic development of the economy. The modelling approach is based on input-output techniques and methodologies to measure the impact of various policy and scenario alternatives,...

The study investigates the effect of the instability of export earnings on gross fixed capital formation (total investment) in Ghana over the period, 1981 to 2011, marked by continuous political stability. The analysis employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method of cointegration to...

Global warming is in essence an economic and political problem. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contributing to global warming have the same damaging effect regardless of the country in which they originate. All regions of the world are affected regardless of whether and to what extent they...

There have been many studies show that there are significant differences in wages between China's workers engaged in formal employment and informal employment, but very few studied the career intention of informal workers. Informally workers in such a disadvantageous position, are they voluntary...