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Fourie, Johan; Santana-Gallego, Maria - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011

Using a standard panel gravity equation of 175 origin/destination countries between 1995 and 2008, 37 of which are African, we identify the factors that drive African-inbound (arrivals to Africa from other continents) and within-African tourism (arrivals from and to an African country). We find...

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Malaysia's commodity export performance during Asian currency crisis and US subprime mortgage crisis

Pouresmaeili, Hamideh - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 8 (2015) 1, pp. 27-41

This paper highlights the impact of the 1997-1998 Asian currency crisis and the 2008-2009 US global financial crisis on Malaysia's exports. By using a quantitative approach, the findings pinpoint the types of Malaysia's exports that were severely hit during these crises. The results of this...

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Financial development, environmental quality, trade and economic growth: What causes what in MENA countries

Omri, Anis; Daly, Saida; Rault, Christophe; Chaibi, Anissa - In: Energy Economics 48 (2015) C, pp. 242-252

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990–2011. Our results indicate that there … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are …

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New evidence on trade-environment linkage via air visibility

Li, Zhigang; Xu, Nan; Yuan, Jia - In: Economics Letters 128 (2015) C, pp. 72-74

We revisit the effect of trade openness on environmental quality by utilizing data on the air visibility of 134 … countries during 1961–2004. We find a significantly negative impact of trade openness on air quality, not only for developing …

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