Unlike its capital outlays in Africa, Chinese Aid in Southeast, South and Central Asia is considerably smaller despite an increasing trend in regional trade and investments. Also, extraction of natural resources does not seem to be the paramount logic for trade and investment decisions. Rather,...

An increasingly important part of international trade consists of fragmentation of the production process, with differing tasks in the global value chain (GVC) being undertaken in different locations. The paper traces the origins of the GVC phenomenon, attempts to measure the significance of...

Introduction : Making analytically sense of the Belt and Road Initiative : a plea for multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches and eclecticism / Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck -- The Belt and Road Initiative post-April 2019 : plus ça change! / Vijay Nambiar -- Thoughts on appropriate...

The COVID-19 pandemic has badly affected economic activities. In emerging Asia, where small family businesses play central roles in their economies, previous studies found that the sector was hit particularly hard by the pandemic. However, little is known about how households have mitigated the...

A growing literature examines the roles of financial literacy in an individual's income, saving behavior, and the use of financial products including financial technology (fintech). However, no study has examined the effects of the financial literacy of family business owners on fintech use and...