With the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry has been the hardest hit in Mauritius due to health containment measures linked to travel restrictions and the closure of borders to prevent the spread of the virus. The hotel industry attempted to…
Globalization has brought with it a number of challenges to the flow of capital between countries. Among them is the need to evaluate and monitor foreign investments, both to attract resources and
to ensure the security of strategic sectors. This…
My talk today begins with a brief overview of President Trump’s tariff policies, followed by examining various aspects and implications his tariff-linked investment approach. We will look together at what developments we may anticipate in the near…
This article examines the relationship between transparency and legitimacy in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) jurisprudence, particularly in the context of Third-Party Funding (TPF). The initial section of the paper scrutinizes transparency…
The objective of this paper is to analyse the socioeconomic implications of Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI) which comes in the form of enhanced infrastructure development, loans
and foreign direct investment. This has led to China becoming…
Although several studies have assessed the influence of tourism on CO2 emissions, the moderating impact of governance quality on the tourism-CO2 emissions nexus is quite sparse. To fill this gap in the literature, this study examines the moderating…
As inter-sectoral linkages are being increasingly organized in complex networks, It has become inconceivable to study sectors’ responses to exogenous shocks without considering the nature of these invisible but real linkages Leontief (1941). However…
We use unique enterprise survey data to explore the export behavior of firms in Tunisia, a small, trade-dependent country with a complex policy environment regarding exporting. Firms may export directly or indirectly through intermediaries, and can…
In this paper we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown policies on Tunisia’s supply chains. We estimate a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood model using data on bilateral imports for intermediate, capital, and final goods for the years 2019 and…
Purpose – Using panel data for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member states, the present study explored the role of RCEP negotiations on tourism development.
Design/methodology/approach –Adynamic econometric model, namely the…