With the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry has been the hardest hit in Mauritius due to health containment measures linked to travel restrictions and the closure of borders to prevent the spread of the virus. The hotel industry attempted to…
The present study investigates the impact of digitalization on global value chain participation in Mauritius. The study is done over the period 1990 to 2019. While most of the literature has focused on developed and industrialized economies, less is…
This study investigates post-Covid merger and acquisition (M&A) trends involving Africa and the Middle East between 2021 and 2023, with a focus on identifying sectoral and geographic patterns that have emerged during the recovery period. Using a…
From September 12 to 16, 2024, the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services was held in Beijing. The theme of this year's CIFTIS is "Global Services, Mutual Benefit and Sharing", and more than 1,000 achievements have been…
This study examines how the 2008/2009 global financial crisis (GFC) and the COVID-19 pandemic differentially impacted Kenya's export and import performance at the firm level. Utilising monthly firm-level customs data from 2006 to 2022, we decompose…
This study empirically examines the causal relationship between trade openness and economic prosperity in South Africa with quarterly data from 1970 to 2017. The analysis is disaggregated into pre-1994 and post-1994 to capture the economic situation…