المنشورات و المؤلفات
This paper argues that an electricity demand should be estimated simultaneously with the supply. It
then estimates the demand for and the supply of the electricity in the Gambia using reduced form
regressions and vector error correction methods. The...
This paper investigates the short-run and the long-run oil demand elasticities in Saudi Arabia for the
period 1980-2009, using auto-regressive and co-integration analyses. It finds oil price (the world crude
price) insignificant in the short-run and...
This paper using cross-sectional data on 39 Sub-Saharan African countries examines how political and
economic governance affect the most recent data on poverty for the period of 2000 – 2007. For this
period, the paper finds that the average...
This paper employs a stochastic production frontier model to assess the efficiency of
the senior secondary schools in the Gambia. It examines their efficiency in using and
mixing the educational inputs of average teacher salary, average teacher...
The analysis of the domestic oil consumption data in the six Gulf Cooperation Council
(GCC) countries has reached five important findings. First, contemporaneously, no robust short run
relationships are found in the data. Second, the international...
Agriculture is a major engine for the economic well-being of the Gambia. The successive governments from the colonial periods to the present have all recognized this importance of the agricultural sector. But most of their policies could not bear...
This paper studies the technical efficiency of Saudi banking sector using stochastic frontier model. A sample of 12
banks over the period 2000 - 2011 is selected to investigate their technical efficiencies in mobilizing deposits,
allocating...
This paper employs panel data econometrics method to analyze the impacts of climate change on cash and food crop production in the Gambia. It finds that land size and rainfall ultimately determine changes in the crop production; the crop...
There is no clear line and distinction between Islamic and conventional banks in Saudi Arabia. Banks which are perceived as non-Islamic banks do offer various types of Islamic banking products beside their conventional products. Some of the banks...
This paper uses production frontier model to generate and analyse the technical efficiency scores for the banks in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. A sample of 52 banks is selected for the study. Three stages of analysis are adopted. At the...
This study investigates the factors of technology diffusion in Saudi Arabia. It employs co-integration method to analyse the long run relations between the technology diffusion and its determinants. The study finds that the international trade,...