The level of infrastructure is a crucial factor affecting national future economic growth, as
well as playing a significant role in shaping both the present and future society and …

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) hopes to deliver trillions of dollars in infrastructure
financing to Asia, Europe, and Africa. If the initiative follows Chinese practices to date for …

This study investigates the intricate relationships between macroeconomic infrastructure,
supply chain smoothness, national competitiveness, and economic growth within the BRICS …

This book challenges conventional wisdoms both about economic performance and about
policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking …

Countries along with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) differ in geographical location,
technological levels, and resource endowment. It is worth paying attention to the evolution of …

This paper investigates the impact of mobile financial services (MFS)(mobile money, and
mobile credit and savings) on the informal sector using a sample of 101 emerging and …

Enhancing resilience capacity holds the key to welfare improvement. While there are
assumptions that resilience has led to curbing poverty, in fact, the empirics are limited to …

This paper evaluates the development impacts of migration and remittances in migrant
source communities by applying insights from the New Economics of Labor Migration …

Entrepreneurship support programmes are a major component of the entrepreneurship
ecosystem. Through these programmes, stakeholders, often government-affiliated, aim to …

This article analyses the contribution of public investment to economic growth in Southern
Italy in the second half of the twentieth century (1951–2011). The Bai–Perron tests suggest …