Purpose - The purpose of this research is to develop a predictive model that can estimate the volume of remittances channeled toward Yemen's economic reconstruction efforts. Design/methodology/approach - This study utilized a time-series dataset encompassing remittance inflows into Yemen's...

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 has fostered in many countries the development of new weekly economic indices for the timely tracking of pandemic-related turmoils and other forms of rapid economic changes. Such indices often utilise information from daily and weekly economic time series that...