Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of foreign aid on corruption in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Foreign aid is aimed to promote economic growth by complementing the recipient country’s shortfall of financial resource. However, if the recipient country’s...

Purpose – Since the mid‐1990s, there has been a rapid expansion of large‐scale foreign retailers in many countries across Southeast Asia, Central Europe and Latin America. This emerging trend has triggered a number of research interests on the issue of retail globalization. The research...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-term impacts of health capital on economic growth in Singapore from 1980 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach: Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-ECM methodology and several diagnostic and specification tests were used to estimate the...

Purpose: This study examines the impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment in various income groups of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries. Design/methodology/approach: Traditional panel data methodologies neglect...

Purpose – Skilled migrant workers move relatively in unidirectional form (from developing to developed countries) in response to many factors. The purpose of this paper is to examine some factors that influence skilled migration to such preferred locations among skilled workers....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the house market in Malaysia from 2002 to 2015. Specifically, the macroeconomic determinants on the house price and house demand are investigated. Design/methodology/approach: Structural Vector Autoregressive Regression was adopted to estimate...

Purpose: Digital technology is gaining attention among many scholars as a way to facilitate trade. This study aims to investigate three important digital dimensions (DD), namely, digital infrastructure, digital usage and digital security on trade using selected Asian countries and 20 selected...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the linear and nonlinear remittance–institutional quality link in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach: This study investigates the nonlinear relationship between remittance and political institutional quality in a panel of 97 developing...