Africa, while less impacted than other regions of the world, is still facing disastrous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, African countries, especially those in French-speaking Africa, have provided less support to their…
This study examines the impact of infrastructural development on bilateral trade flows using a panel of 51 African countries from 2003 to 2015. An infrastructure-augmented gravity model was estimated with different indicators of infrastructural…
The chapter analyses the short-run and long-run effects of international trade on the environment. For this purpose, the bounds testing method to cointegration is applied to a small island country setting of Mauritius and over the period 1980– 2018…
Purpose – The present study investigates the extent to which technological progress influences trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region over the period 1990–2017. Design/methodology/approach – Methodologically, this…
Tourism development and foreign real estate investment (FREI) are two aspects that have gained impetus in developing contexts over the past years. Using the context of small island developing economies, the study is being conducted to depict the…
Although there exists a large strand of the empirical literature which focused on the impact of tourism development on the economic growth of countries (and assuming that growth will trickle down to assist in poverty alleviation), however, empirical…
This study sets out to empirically examine the effect of the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the foreign direct investment flows of a small open economy, Mauritius. A preliminary analysis of the monthly gross direct investment flows data…
The paper investigates the relationship between innovation and export behaviour across manufacturing and services firms in Africa. The study is based on the general premise that innovation has a positive effect on firm’s exports (self-selection…
Purpose – This study aims at evaluating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the export trade system for Mauritius during the first half of 2020 (January 2020–June 2020). Design/methodology/approach – An initial analysis of the monthly…
Tourism and foreign real estate investment (FREI), both represent important sources of foreign income for some emerging nations. Mauritius, a small island economydepends largely upon tourism and it has been promoting FREI over the past two decades…