Financial Market Development (FMD) could play a great role in economic growth and employment generation. This research has investigated the FMD and employment nexus in Saudi Arabia by employing ARDL cointegration on a period 1980-2015. In the long run, we have found the positive impact of FMD,...

Trade openness would increase the welfare of nation if it could also support the employment in the long run. This research explores the net effect of trade openness on the Saudi employment by using annual data of 1980-2015 and by using ARDL cointegration technique. Trade openness, government...

One of the most important objectives of an economy is to achieve high rate of economic growth so as to improve the well-being of their citizen. For the purpose, export-oriented policy measures are more preferably prescribed in the recent past. The present study aims at to find the linkages...

Economic growth is very basic need of any economy but its environmental effects should not be ignored. We investigate the environmental effects of economic growth and energy consumption of Saudi Arabia. The study uses data of a period 1968-2014 and cointegration test and corroborates a long- and...

The regional trade provides better environment for any country to achieve the trade objective instead of a total free trade in this modern age. This study investigates the determinants of Egyptian agriculture trade with her 20 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trading...

Women empowerment may be utilized for sustainable development by using hidden un-utilized potential of the country. The present research is estimated the perception-based level of managerial, academic, economic, political and social women empowerment from a well-structured questionnaire. The...

Saudi labour unemployment is a very serious issue in Saudi Arabia which is further increasing with over dependence on foreign labour. This study empirically investigates this issue by employing ARDL cointegration technique on a sample period of 1980-2015. Our estimates suggest that foreign...

International policy is always aims at the balance trade improvement of any country. This paper specifically investigates the influence of devaluation policy on the trade balance in Saudi Arabia by using data of 1970-2015 through non-linear ARDL approach suggested by Shin et al. (2014). The...

This research probes the impact of Exchange Rate (ER) and oil prices on oil-exports of leading OPEC country, Saudi Arabia by using Shin’s et al. (2014) non-linear ARDL. We find that world income is helping in increasing Saudi oil-exports and the insignificant impact of ER on oil-exports in...

Most of studies in past literature on J-curve has been dealt with aggregated data of trade and very few deals with phenomena of non-linear ARDL. This study does an analysis of J-curve by using annual data of 1970-2015 for industrial dis-aggregated exports of Saudi Arabia, to remove aggregation...