Badar IqbalTshwane University of Technology | tut · Department of Economics
Badar Iqbal
PH.D; DBA; M.Com; DSW B.A. (Hons) Economics; Enlist as an Expert in the Directory of South African Scientists [ASSAf].
Editing a Special Issue on Sustainable Development for [ADR] for Wiley Journal Cite Score 4.4 and SSCI.
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Introduction
These days I am editing FOUR global SCOPUS indexed Journals on International Economics. My areas of interest are International Business; economics; Development of Economics and agricultural economics.
I am serving as Chief Editor, Editor; Co-editor; Guest Editor to different global journals indexed in SCOPUS and WOS. Serving Sage Monograph Editor. Editing Emerald Journal [JCEFTS]; Cite Score 2.6
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This study investigates the challenges and opportunities in infrastructure development, inequality, and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is a critical gap between infrastructure planning and execution, exacerbated by inadequate funding, bureaucratic hurdles, and a lack of technical expertise, leading to profound inequality in infrastructure...
Twenty-three years ago, the idea of creating an economic block was proposed. Accordingly, four emerging economies of the world, namely Brazil, Russia, India, and China, were grouped into the BRIC economic block. Later, South Africa joined the BRIC, and the block became known as the BRICS countries. Today, BRICS nations have been contributing signif...
Edited Volume on COVID-19 and African External Trade 2024
This book chapter explores the intricate landscape of global regulations in response to the rapid ascent of fintech. The fintech industry has witnessed remarkable growth, transforming the traditional financial services sector. As technology continues to reshape financial transactions, it has become essential to analyze the evolving regulatory frame...
The relations between India and Vietnam have been strengthening in both social and economic aspects. The bilateral trade and investment relations between the two countries are on an upward trend. In this context, the present paper analyzes the trade intensity between India and Vietnam and provides an overview of the investment relations. The study...
Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate service quality perception and behavioural purchase intention in hotels by utilizing a Measurement Invariance of Composite (MICOM) approach with the aim of understanding the differences in the service quality perception among male and female guests in hotels. Theoretical Framework: In this to...
Infrastructure development policies have been criticised for lacking a deliberate pro-gender and pro-informal sector orientation. Since African economies are dual enclaves, with the traditional and informal sectors female-dominated, failure to have gendered infrastructure development planning and investment exacerbates gender inequality. The paper...
India has been a member of the BRICS group since 2009. It has been a staunch advocate for the synergistic power. Their summits have focused on a wide range of topics, all of which share the common goal of reorganizing the global economic and political order. The BRICS nations have together accomplished several significant milestones which include t...
In this chapter, the authors examine the causes, consequences, and potential development of financial inclusion in China. It explores how factors including financial literacy and regulatory settings, as well as novel financial inclusion strategies, have shaped China's inclusive financial system. It examines the effects of financial inclusion on sev...
Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate service quality perception and behavioural purchase intention in hotels by utilizing a Measurement Invariance of Composite (MICOM) approach with the aim of understanding the differences in the service quality perception among male and female guests in hotels. Theoretical Framework: In this to...
This edited volume delves into the latest discourse and empirical findings shaping the research of global business and entrepreneurial endeavors. Topics of the contributed chapters deal with digitalisation and climate change, and on the international activities of both small and large multinationals.
ARTICLE INFORMATION This study sets out to investigate the current state of microfinance in China, with a special focus on microcredit and its effects on small business owners. This research was motivated in part by the fact that nearly 30% of the Chinese population does not have access to traditional banking services because of factors like their...
This paper uses the China Foreign Investment Country-Oriented Industry Catalog as a policy shock to study the effectiveness and externality effect of China's OFDI incentive policy through the RD and PSM-DID model correspondingly. The results show that OFDI encouragement policy can effectively promote enterprises to carry out foreign direct investme...
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This study aims to find the impact of the trade war between the USA and China on Asian economies. Apart from macroeconomic variables associated with trade, this study explicitly creates a trade war scenario and trade war participant dummies. Using the neural network multilayer perceptron, this study checks for the causal linkages between th...
Investors in every economy may gauge stock returns by trading the many equities available to them. So, the primary purpose of trading is to generate an efficient, positive flow of funds to investors. The trade's primary focus is the character of ownership represented by the claim in the proportion of the partnership as established by the profits an...
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping’s ambitious project was announced in the end of 2013 to amalgamate Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road, termed as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China has developed projects in Asia to facilitate trade and investment. BRI represents a chance for increased trade, investment, and job creation for the Asian econo...
The first attempts at the Latin American integration process showed a highly pragmatic character, without many concerns for medium and long-term projects. The main concern was to expand intra and extra-regional trade. However, since the 1980s (the decade considered the lost decade for Latin America), when the external debt crises and the adjustment...
One of the overwhelming issues in the global economy has been China-US trade war. The edited book by Rahul Nath comprises of chapters on different dimensions of the trade war. AS the crisis emerged between two economic powers of East (China) and West (US), it had substantial consequences on South Asian economies. The chapters identify key challenge...
Corporate divestiture represents an important component of a firm’s strategy. Divestment takes different forms and is usually undertaken for a variety of general and firm-specific reasons. The objective of this article is to provide an overview and assessment of the current consensus on the empirical evidence on underlying divestiture motives. What...
Corporate divestiture represents an important component of a firm's strategy. Divestment takes different forms and is usually undertaken for a variety of general and firm-specific reasons. The objective of this article is to provide an overview and assessment of the current consensus on the empirical evidence on underlying divestiture motives. What...
The G20 summit in its fourteenth term is going to be held in Osaka, Japan from June 28 to June 29, 2019. The world has changed but the challenges and threats are still the same. India will be participating under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is serving second term of power as PM, getting full majority for second time. It is exp...
The present evolutionary phase in international economic and political relations involves the analysis of a "new globalization" and the profound reshaping of multipolarity. This article examines the fundamental elements of the newly emerging globalization morphology from a critical standpoint on the key aspects of the Regional Comprehensive Economi...
Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is the cross-border capital flow with the objective of the long-term association having at least a ten percent stake in the equity of the host country firm. In the case of new investment, the total equity is OFDI. This research aims to analyze OFDI in the context of China. The lasting interest is considered...
It is a well-established notion that "growth and development" are the necessities for everyone who is living on the landscape of the earth. These are the two faces of the same coin: growth promotes development and development accelerates the growth and the needed purchasing of the people [sin-quo-non] for enhancing the quality of life of the People...
Editorial Note Prof. Badar Alam Iqbal, Guest Editor of Special Issue "COVID-19 and Regional Development [Economic and Social Development] in Africa, writes an Editorial for this Special Issue. Through this editorial, the researchers may find the special issue as a value addition to the existing literature on the theme. All five papers were received...
COVID-19 took the world by surprise as no country was prepared for it. In a short time,
from epidemic, it became a pandemic. It disrupted social, economic, demographic,
statistical and political status of the countries across the world. However, the worst
affected were the economies of the developing world.
This chapter provides an outline of the role of social media analytics in digital marketing. It includes an introduction to digital marketing and social media analytics. The contribution of the chapter offers theoretical insights into the conceptual aspect along with the growing significance of social media platforms and the analytics of the data c...
The Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity (GFSEC) brought into policy-making on the excess capacity that the steel producing countries appear to be battling is a conglomeration of more than 30 countries. The group members consist of both G20 countries and the OECD countries. Both India and People's Republic of China have tied themselves to the goal...
This chapter will aim to explicate the challenges posed by global warming or the climate change conditions on food security especially from the point of view of India. The negative impact of global warming has been seen, especially in developing economies, on the agricultural yields leading towards food insecurity. The four pillars of food security...
The aim of the present study is to empirically examine the role of selected macro-economic variables on the global value chains participation index of BRICS countries using the Pooled Mean group Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag method. The study also highlighted the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the global value chains (GVC). The findings sh...
This study employs the gravity model to estimate the extent of the contribution of six African trade blocs to the global economy using the gravity model spanning from 1980 to 2018. The gravity equation that models the export contributions of the six selected African RECs to the global export is estimated. The estimated gravity model reveals that th...
International trade directs towards economic growth if the policy measures and economic infrastructure are well enough and strong to handle the changes. Though trade wars are chaotic and have long-term consequences, implications, and effects, the ultimate aim is to maintain fair trade between economies. The present paper aims to discuss the trade w...
Role of FDI in digitalization and environmental sustainability are basic crux of the book chapter. It discussed different concepts and application in the ear of globalization with special context of digitalization and environmental sustainabilit.
The newly elected US President Joe Biden received a call from the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulating on his win and hoping to have bolstered relations between the two countries in the future. With coming in power of Joe Biden as the US President a significant shift in foreign policy is expected. This will be a concern for the future...
The newly elected US President Joe Biden received a call from the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulating on his win and hoping to have bolstered relations between the two countries in the future. With coming in power of Joe Biden as the US President a significant shift in foreign policy is expected. This will be a concern for the future...
This book illustrates the impact of increasingly prominent global phenomena, such as digitalisation and climate change, on the international activities of both small and large multinationals. As it highlights, extant management research does not fully explain such emergent topics as Internet platforms, digital business models, and the decision-maki...
This study examines how agricultural trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) influence inclusive growth in developing countries, using the case of West Africa. It engages data obtained from various World Bank sources for 15 West African countries that are members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the period 2000–2019....
Islampromotescharitybothatanindividualaswellasatthecommunity/societylevel.Charityhasbeen mostamoralissueratherthananeconomiconethoughitaffectsthesocietyintermsofeconomics. Mainstreameconomicshasignoredtheapplicationofcharitymodelandhowitcanresultinreducing economicdisparities.Unfortunately,charityhasbeenignoredbyresearchersinthecontextofitbeing ane...
financial grant creates an avenue to reduce poverty, inequality and to improve equitable
economic development. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of social financial grant
increases on poverty alleviation in South Africa. The paper inclines on prior poverty theories of
economic growth, which highlights the use of social financial...
The present study explores the socioeconomic scenario of the South Asian region before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the long run and short-run association between human development, unemployment and the economic growth of the region using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model before...
Is there any Need for Environmental Emergency across the globe? This is one of the most cortical issue which has to be looed at on war footing. The goes in answering this question.
After the end of Second World War; two global forums namely-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTA) were established. The GATT was called as "rich countries club", and UNCTAD was known as "poor countries club", and they were responsible to regulate the global trade. In order to ex...
In the present global scenario, the structure of organizations is changing in the form of a highly competitive workplace, advanced technology, and a growing outlook of customers. To make itself adjusted in such a dynamic environment, the role of big data which is already growing exponentially is highly significant in the achievement of efficiency a...
The first three industrial revolutions were all about the mechanization of production using water and steam power; electric power; electronics and information technology respectively. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) is the off-shoot of the digital revolution [the third revolution]. Exponential expansion through merging technology is
what lea...
The paper aims to determine the relationship between access to electricity and economic performance. The study covered 14 countries of the ECOWAS region and used data ranging from 1990 to 2016. The Pool Mean Group estimator, in an ARDL setting, was used to estimate the short and long run dynamics of access to electricity on growth. The analysis was...
The paper aims to determine the relationship between access to electricity and economic performance. The study covered 14 countries of the ECOWAS region and used data ranging from 1990 to 2016. The Pool Mean Group estimator, in an ARDL setting, was used to estimate the short and long run dynamics of access to electricity on growth. The analysis was...
Capitalaccountliberalizationhasalwaysbeenatthecoreofeconomicpolicymaking.Chinaisa countrywhichhaschosentogogradualinopeningupthecapitalaccount.Thepresentresearch seekstomanoeuvreaspectsofcapitalaccountliberalizationfortheChineseeconomy.Anempirical investigation is run for ascertaining the particular influence capital controls has had on foreign dir...
The monograph under review is devoted to a multilateral analysis of the Bangladesh economy and the prospects for its development in the modern world. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the financial and industrial sectors of the economy, industrial policy, the prospects for an innovative economy in Bangladesh.
Higher educational institutions (HEI) have lately involved the marketing approach both locally and globally. While almost all HEI now involve marketing of education service, there is no comprehensive assessment indicator available for the marketing intensity. Marketing intensity as a new term is the holistic involvement of an organization into mark...
BRICS emerged after the collective potential was identified and popularized by O'Neil (2001). BRICS countries form a group where every country has equal right to assert its view and influence the policy. The yearly summit of BRICS witnesses rotating chairs of Presidentship. However, there is no formal agreement or notification regarding the leader...
Climate change has become the most challenging problem and task for every one living on the earth. The most unfortunate thing is that neither the developed countries nor the developing economies are serious on this task and as a result, on concrete solution has come so far. There has been more myth rather reality. As the time running very fast, it...
At the international business level, divestment is not a new term. It has been seen as a significant part of business strategy for both home and host economies. Keeping this perspective, the aim of the present study will be to give an overview of foreign divestment from the perspective of various studies, reasons for the occurrence of divestment an...
The aim of this chapter will be to explicate about the Copyright in Digital Business. The study will begin with highlighting the overview of Copyright law and digital business scenario. The chapter will further scrutinize the issues and challenges associated with the Copyright in Digital Business. The present study hold a descriptive methodology by...
Purpose- The aim of this study is to elucidate over the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative
of China through looking at it from asian perspective. The study begins with highlighting
the evaluation of the Maritime Silk road from the traditional Silk Road. The chapter further
inspects the opportunities and challenges which will come ahead in the path...
Innovation is understood by different people differently and there is no reason to think otherwise until and unless innovation is objectified. Several measures have been developed to represent innovation in one or the other form. At times, due to dearth of data on innovation, proxies are used that may not represent innovation in its true sense. One...
Chinese President Jinping initiated one of China’s grandiose foreign policy initiatives in 2013. He emphasized on the reconstruction of Silk Road Economic Belt and a twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road (MSR), together referred as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI presents opportunity for trade, investment, and jobs between China and Asian...
The difference between growth and development is not subtle but substantially huge and the gap is ever increasing. The dividing line is social indicators. Countries witnessing high growth rates for decades are not equal performers in development when social indicators are observed. India is an emerging economy on the one hand and a developing on th...
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) has 40 percent of the world population and shares 20 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This paper seeks to evaluate business opportunities with the BRICS for Canadian businesses through a framework of global competitiveness. Global competitiveness is tracked over a 16-year per...
The looming of a vindictive spirit owing to dishevelled trade relations amidst China and the US seems to be near. Never has it been so apparent than now. The US has had itself as the largest economy on the world stage and China’s attempt at shuffling this incumbency has led the US to open a tariff fire on Chinese imports. The tariff brawl appears t...
This paper is an attempt to examine the trends and significant determinants of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Asia. In order to find out the important determinants of China’s OFDI in Asia, this study applies the panel data regression technique. The time period from 2006 to 2015 is taken into consideration. Econometric analysis...
SMEs are considered the backbone of the Latin American economic region as they represent an overwhelming majority of private enterprises in the region and account for 99% of businesses and employ 67% of employees. One of the elements in which SMEs need assistance is their involvement in the IT-enabled services (ITES) both for greater efficiency and...
The concept of business model is not new now, but organizations construct, identify, and innovate their models from the beginning of the business itself. The purpose of this study is to understand the importance of e-commerce business models and explore their connections to provide an overview of the concept of business model. In this study, the au...
Purpose- The aim of this study is to illuminate over the growth and development of the Industrial Sector in India. The study highlights the performance of Industrial sector on the basis of various economic indicators. The chapter further examines the recent initiatives taken by the Government of India for the sustainable development of Indian econo...