The present paper examines impacts of foreign exchange rates against the Sudanese currency on savings. The increasing rates of foreign currencies in the domestic Sudanese Black markets have simultaneously resulted in the continuous depreciated Sudanese currency values over the past year...

It is not an exaggeration to surmise that agriculture as an economic activity in Sudan is facing demise. The agricultural sector of Sudan has been facing by many problems for the past two decades. In the irrigated schemes, the government who officially owns most of them there were entrenched...

This paper examines the historical oversights contained in one of P Wakker's articles on Uncertainty that is contained in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008).The same error is incorporated in all of his other articles and books written on this topic, so it is representative of his...

In this paper we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory (GET) in the USSR during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics, only fragmentarily known in the West, give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the...

The relationship between corruption and economic activity is a complex one. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship in selected countries between level of corruption and economic activity, using data obtained from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Though ordinary least square (OLS) estimates are super-consistent with cointegrated variables, their finite-T bias can be large in the presence of endogenous feedback. Fully modified OLS (FMOLS) are parsimonious tools to measure the cointegrating [long-run] slope between integrated variables in...

In this paper we test New Keynesian propositions about inflation and unemployment trade off with the New Keynesian Phillips curve and the proposition of non-neutrality of money. The main conclusion is that there is limited evidence in line with the New-Keynesian theory. Money and growth are...

Trinidad and Tobago is a small, energy-based, developing economy of the Caribbean. Using the most recent available data (2007) the energy sector in this country accounts for approximately 87 percent of exports, 48 percent of government revenue and 43 percent of gross domestic product....