Umar Muhammad Gummi

Sokoto State University · Department of Economics

China's engagement in Africa's economic domain has sparked disagreement among researchers and the mainstream media on whether the engagement benefits Africa as a host. There are also ongoing concerns that the new China-Africa relationship is only benefiting China at the expense of Africa. In this paper, we examine the effect of China's FDI on indus...

The ever-growing degradation of the environment has led to the building and implementation of various strategies to achieve sustainable development. The textile industry is not left out in this struggle to reach sustainability through sustainable supply chain management. This paper proposes a sustainable closed-loop supply chain for the textile ind...

This paper studies a sustainable closed-loop supply chain progress for the textile industry based on the Industry 4.0 technologies to facilitate data-driven decision-making and ensure sustainability, which is premised on the ability of the IoTs to capture real-time information from the different stages of the supply chain through the use of radio f...

Intra-city transportation system is an indispensible means of movement of persons and their goods within the city. In Sokoto metropolis, it has contributed and still contributing to the development of the socioeconomic activities of the people. Motorcycle or Kabu-kabu is one of the means of intra-city transport within the metropolis. The role of co...

The relationship between energy price and food price has been dominated by co-movement debate among empirical submissions. However, these are widely criticized based on economic structure and uncertain economic events. In this paper, using data spanning from January 2000 to September 2019, we applied asymmetric and partial structural change models...

Oil exporting economies were the most hit by the recent oil price shock that spills on the food market in an increasingly volatile macroeconomic environment. This paper examines and compares sub-samples [before crisis (2000 Q1–2013 Q1) and during crisis (2013 Q2–2019 Q4)] as to the impact of oil price on food prices in high- and low-income oil-exp...

Oil is one of the most important raw materials for industrial production, and changes in its price affect both prices of petroleum products and the overall production costs. The debate on the nexus between oil price and manufacturing performance is far from over considering the dynamic nature of the oil market. This paper examined the effect of pet...

Nigeria witnessed a favourable GDP growth rate between the years 2009 to 2014 but poverty, inequality and unemployment have grown their roots deep which trapped many people in economic hardships (poverty, unemployment and under-employment). The paper seeks to review the roles of entrepreneurship in achieving a broad-based growth that reduces unempl...

Sokoto Journal of Management Studies. Vol. 17 (4) pp 1- 17. (Special Conference Edition)

The natural worth of anything consists in its fitness to supply the necessities and serve the conveniences of human needs. Welfare state always strives to put in place the necessary impetus that will ensure the material and spiritual well being of people in its domain. Islamic Welfare State (IWS) shapes the social, economic, cultural and political...