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Determinants of Tourism SMEs' Performance in Mauritius

3 June 2021

This study develops and tests a structural model that incorporates the determinants of SME financial performance in Mauritius. Data were collected from 384 tourism SME owners using a structured questionnaire. The results indicate that managerial capabilit ...

The Effect of Mining foreign Direct Investment Inflow on the Economic Growth of Zimbabwe, with Gochero, in Journal of Economic Structures

3 June 2021

this research results show that foreign direct investment in the mining sector has ...

A cross-country analysis of the determinants of the real effective exchange rates in fifteen Sub-Saharan African countries

3 June 2021

This paper employs an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to examine the long-run and short-run determinants of the real effective exchange rate in fifteen Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using annual data spanning from 1980 to 2015. Not su ...

Covid-19 in Mauritius and other Tourist paradises: a progress report

3 June 2021

The pandemic brings new information every day.  Factors contributing to the large differences in trajectories are the subject of intense investigation (e.g. Helsinki Graduate School of Economics Situation Room 2020).  This column summarises findings from ...

Opportunities and challenges of e-commerce in Mauritius

3 June 2021

This study explores the status, challenges and opportunities of e-commerce in Mauritius. The share of the population making online purchases was 14 per cent in 2017, the secondhighest level (after Libya) in Africa, largely due to increases in internet use ...

The Mexican Front-of-Pack Labeling Reform: Is It Compatible with International Trade Law?

31 May 2021

Mexico has by far the world’s highest death rate linked to obesity and other chronic diseases. As a response to the growing pandemic of obesity, Mexico has adopted a new compulsory front-of-pack labeling regulation for pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic ...

Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements

31 May 2021

in their agreements. These lessons are based on a research assessment of 73 selected free ...

Economic Globalization Under Threat: Design, Impact and Perceptions of Latin American Trade Agreements (WTI, Seed Money Grants, 2019-2020))

28 May 2021

to work on the research frontier of explaining the variation in trade ... challenges.   This project aims to strengthen research cooperation between ... network for research on trade agreements from an interdisciplinary ...

State neutrality, business elite and the lack of export services development in Chile: an exploratory qualitative analysis

28 May 2021

Economic development process implies, among other things, export expansion beyond natural resources and towards more knowledge intensive sectors. However, a common problem within developing countries is the lack of economic and political elite's ‘ent ...

Trade Finance Constrains as a Barrier For Chilean Services

28 May 2021

research on access to financing for the internationalization of services. ...

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