Hebatallah Ghoneim

• Professor
• Professor (Associate) at German University in Cairo

Purpose This paper aims to study the relationship between consumerism and Subjective Well-being (SWB), exploring to what extent the acquisition of goods contributes to personal happiness and satisfaction. Additionally, it examines the influence of diverse factors like religiosity, marital status, education, age, gender and home ownership, shedding...

Purpose This study aims to identify and discuss influential aspects of accounting education literature in the digital era, such as key streams, themes, authors, keywords, journals, affiliations and countries. It also constructs agendas for future research. Design/methodology/approach The current study uses a bibliometric approach to analyze 287 st...

COVID-19 has reshaped our lives since March 2020, and it is expected to affect us for decades to come. Children are the least vulnerable to the virus but are not immune to its other effects. This paper attempts to explore the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on children based in Egypt. This study employed a desk-based study of academic sources, res...

This study explores the impact of sovereign Green, Social and Sustainability (GSS) bonds on sustainable development pillars; economic, environmental, and social. The study uses panel data as well as crosscountry analysis on a sample of 26 countries over a period from 2018-2021. Using fixed effect panel regression, the results provide strong evidenc...

Decent work was proposed by International Labour Organization (ILO) as an institutional measure to address challenges faced by labor in the current competitive dynamic labor market. This study aims to investigate the impact of “decent work” dimensions on faculty members’ Innovative Work Behaviour (IWB) in higher education institutes. The study also...

This paper analyses the world oil price pass-through to Egypt’s domestic inflation rate. The paper adopts the augmented Phillips curve framework and further extends it to consider the growing body of empirical evidence, suggesting that oil prices may have asymmetric effects on inflation. Accordingly, the paper examines and compares the symmetric an...

In today's interconnected economies, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a key engine of economic growth and development. At the same time, sustainability has become widely acknowledged as a crucial objective for promoting long-term development and maintaining natural balance. For governments, corporations, and researchers to encourage respo...

COVID-19 went beyond being a pandemic situation to a global economic crisis. The pandemic has affected most workers' working hours, place, and productivity. Moreover, a number of firms had to cut down the level of employment or at least decrease wages. Those employment categories that depend on irregular job vacancies currently depend on government...

The Export-led growth hypothesis has been a controversial topic and its validity has been under scrutiny even for one of its well-renounced benchmarks, South Korea. The paper explores the causal relation between exports and GDP for South Korea for a time span of 61 years. Unit root tests are implemented and the existence of structural breaks were d...

Purpose Most research studies have examined financial inclusion from a supply-side perspective, which measures access and usage of formal financial services by banking outreach indicators, the number of borrowers and the availability of other financial services in a given area. However, this approach is often insufficient to nuance the degree of fi...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the gender disparities in the workers' perception of whether “decent work” standards exist in their current job and workplace in the Egyptian context. Design/methodology/approach This study uses quantitative data. A survey was utilised to assess workers' perceptions of decent work. The sample was sele...

Egypt is a promising market. It is full of auspicious economic opportunities for investments. These can be found in natural resources and low-cost labour sectors, which are considered scarce resources in many countries in the Global North. The theory of comparative advantage plays a vital role in assessing the strength of the country's exports. Com...

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and productivity for the 27 EU member countries using panel data. Given the critical role that digitalization plays in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the model was re-estimated using the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) and its subcomponents as instruments for entrepreneurship. T...

In a world promoting free trade, policies aim to increase economic welfare. Nevertheless, the impact of decreasing protectionism on small countries has been unclear. The aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of decreasing tariff rates on welfare in small developing countries, using Egypt as a case study. This is done through simulating the...

This report provides a descriptive overview of FDI inflows in Egypt, explores the main determinates and major achievements, and highlights the challenges of attracting FDI in Egypt. This paper also outlines potential areas for investment and serves as a guide for policymakers. This paper addresses the following questions: 1. What is the trend of...

COVID-19 has reshaped our lives. Our houses turned into co-working areas, school classrooms, and playgrounds. Social distancing has put more weight on parents to ensure their children’s education and cognitive gains. This has raised questions about the impact parents had on their children’s cognitive levels even before COVID-19. This paper is an at...

The objective of this paper is to examine the relation between FDI and exchange rates. In order to understand this relation, each variable had to be first examined on its own. From the literature gathered, a research gap has been reached, which is to further examine the effect of exchange rate levels on FDI in developing countries; namely Egypt. Th...

Purpose One of the main theories regarding the relationship between government expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) is Wagner’s law. This law was developed in the late-19th century by Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), a prominent German economist, and depicts that an increase in government expenditure is a feature often associated with progressive...

One of the main theories regarding the relationship between government expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) is Wagner’s law. This law was developed in the late-19th century by Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), a prominent German economist, and depicts that an increase in government expenditure is a feature often associated with progressive states....

In 2010, Egypt has signed a preferential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). The agreement has been ratified in January 2013, aiming at the reduction of trade barriers and the expansion of the reciprocal trade as well as investment relations between the two parties. The realization of the intended benefits of...

A wave of revolution had proliferated the Arab World since December 2010 creating a cutting edge in history. Revolution activities had started in Tunisia and spread from the west Arab community in Mauritania to east in Bahrain. Revolution had taken the shape of civil resistance through protests, marches and media awareness campaigns. Citizens are e...

After the political and social actions taken place through the Arab Spring in late 2010, North African countries have witnessed major revisions of their constitutions, which have heavily supported gender equality and women’s empowerment in all activities and sectors. Along the same line, many countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develo...

“Good health and well-being” is the third of the Sustainable Development Goals, but it cannot be achieved without achieving goal two, “No Hunger.” Nutrition status is the foundation for healthy individuals, especially children. Developing countries have to set policies to solve malnutrition in order to ensure better health and well-being. This led...

The role that human capital plays in the economic growth of the countries has been an ongoing debate through the last two decades and has shown various empirical results over this period. This study aims is to analyze and investigate the magnitude of relationship between human capital and the economic growth in Egypt since the Egyptian population h...

In a world promoting free trade, trade policies should be designed to help increase economic welfare. Egypt is one of the countries with great prospective to economically excel and prosper; nevertheless, it is still categorized as a developing one. The European Union association agreement was one of the main agreements that helped the tariff rates...

The presentation tackles an econometric comparison between Ricardian Revealed Comparative Advantage and Normalized Comparative Advantage. Besides, investigating the effectiveness of both measures.

This paper illustrates the relationship between energy reforms and economic sustainable development in Egypt and Iran; through analyzing the relation between energy reform and four main macroeconomic variables, namely: budget deficit, energy consumption, inflation and economic growth. The methodology adopted in this paper is a comparative case stud...

Paper accepted for presentation in the International Conference on Economic Modeling and Data Science (EcoMod2019) in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal on July10-12, 2019

Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Warsaw, Poland

Aim/purpose – Studying the impact of microfinance on income inequality from a macro- -economic perspective. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-sectional regression analysis is used to measure the effect of microfinance on the Gini index in a sample of 30 developing countries from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. A set of control var...

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to distinguish between the economy-wide impact of targeting conditional and unconditional cash transfer to Egyptian households following the full removal of subsidies. Analyzing the impact on the middle class whose vulnerability increased during the reform is another addition of this paper that...

This paper examines whether energy subsidies determine the foreign direct investment of a country by using the data collected in Egypt. The model investigating this relation will also highlight the main determinants that derive FDI in the Egyptian economy. The results provided are crucial for public policy decision making with the continuous effort...

the foreign direct investment of a country by using the data collected in Egypt. The model investigating this relation will also highlight the main determinants that derive FDI in the Egyptian economy. The results provided are crucial for public policy decision making with the continuous effort to attract FDI and decrease energy subsidy.

The rise of globalization has situated FDI as a vehicle of growth and technology transfer. Developing countries such as China, India and Malaysia has attracted more FDI in comparison to other countries. Respectively, economic literature investigating the determinants of FDI is exploded, in an attempt to analyze successful model and provide a develo...

The wide spread moral decay which led to consecutive economic crises in the 21st century has led scholars to seek an ethical economic system. The Islamic economic system (IES), with its ethical foundations, is anticipated to rise as an alternative ethical economic system. The main pillars of this system have been established; however, little attent...

Education Reform is a concern for each country as it is the main tool to ensure human resource improvement. Latin America has used programs known as Conditional Cash Transfer Program that targeted alleviating poverty, improving education and promoting health. Such programs face the problem of asymmetric information, as government give aid to citize...

Game Theory has been gaining great importance in Economics, encouraging research in many theoretical and applied fields. This paper relies on simple game theory tools to set up a major international trade dispute. Using the backward deduction approach, the strategies of the United States and China in their recent trade conflict are analyzed.