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The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on population health in the UK: rapid evidence review (2024)
Journal Article

Background

In the UK, unique and unforeseen factors, including COVID-19, Brexit, and Ukraine-Russia war, have resulted in an unprecedented cost of living crisis, creating a second health emergency. We present, one of the first rapid reviews with t... Read More about The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on population health in the UK: rapid evidence review.

Impact of political conflict on foreign direct investments in the mining sector: Evidence from the event study and spatial estimation (2024)
Journal Article

This study aims to investigate the impact of conflict on greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) in the mining sector covering the period of the 1st quarter of 2003 until the 3rd quarter of 2017, across 151 countries. Unlike previous works, this p... Read More about Impact of political conflict on foreign direct investments in the mining sector: Evidence from the event study and spatial estimation.

Does natural resource curse in finance exist in Africa? Evidence from spatial techniques (2023)
Journal Article

This paper aims to examine the relationship between financial development and natural resources. By using panel data of 20 selected African countries from 1995 to 2020, we investigate whether all types of financial development have the same relations... Read More about Does natural resource curse in finance exist in Africa? Evidence from spatial techniques.

The determinants of issuing central bank digital currencies (2023)
Journal Article

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are considered ‘digital fiat currencies’ that do not have a physical form, which is a key distinction from conventional fiat money. This study aims to identify factors that influence central banks’ decisions in... Read More about The determinants of issuing central bank digital currencies.

The Impact of Conflict on Energy Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study uses the actual number of fatalities and influx of refugees as proxies for conflict to empirically investigate the impact of violent events on energy poverty in SSA over 30 years from 1990 to 2019. We use different proxies for energy pover... Read More about The Impact of Conflict on Energy Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.