Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance institutions unscathed from the recession? – An empirical reconsideration -- Chapter 3: Microfinance as a Strategy to Curb the Global Recession -- Chapter 4: Developing...

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...

The objective of this study is to analyze the role of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and financial development in shaping renewable energy consumption employing panel data of 130 economies from 1990 to 2020. The empirical analysis is based on pooled ordinary least squares, fixed effects,...

Part I. Shocked Economies: New Urban Thinking and Sustainable Advancement -- Chapter 1. Urbanization Motif, COVID-19, and Economic Revival: Exploratory Research from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Chapter 2. Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa: Using the Development Model from East Asia in Nigeria,...

Remittances have risen spectacularly in absolute terms and in relation to traditional sources of foreign exchange, such as export revenues. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost growth rates of receiving economies. They can also create a culture of...