A comprehensive review on wind energy in Africa: Challenges, benefits and recommendations

S Boadu, E Otoo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The African continent is endowed with massive energy resources such as hydropower,
solar, wind, natural gas, wave energy, and many more, yet it is the continent with the least …

The impact of COVID-19 on international trade: Evidence from the first shock

K Hayakawa, H Mukunoki - Journal of the Japanese and International …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates how the effects of COVID-19 on international trade changed over
time. To do that, we explore monthly data on worldwide trade from January to August in …

Economic impacts of SARS/MERS/COVID‐19 in Asian countries

S Tanaka - Asian Economic Policy Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper surveys the recent literature on the economic impacts of SARS, MERS, and
COVID‐19, which Asian countries have experienced in the past two decades. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of COVID-19 on trade flows: Measuring their impact through government policy responses

J Barbero, JJ de Lucio, E Rodríguez-Crespo - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 on bilateral trade flows using a state-of-the-art
gravity model of trade. Using the monthly trade data of 68 countries exporting across 222 …

Has global agricultural trade been resilient under coronavirus (COVID-19)? Findings from an econometric assessment of 2020

S Arita, J Grant, S Sydow, J Beckman - Food Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as
“resilient” to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and …

The trade impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic

X Liu, E Ornelas, H Shi - The World Economy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using a gravity‐like approach, we study how COVID‐19 deaths and lockdown policies
affected countries' imports from China during 2020. We find that a country's own COVID‐19 …

Decoupling global value chains

P Eppinger, GJ Felbermayr, O Krebs, B Kukharskyy - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can
decoupling from GVCs increase a country's welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign …

The labour market impact of COVID-19: early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe

A Webster, S Khorana, F Pastore - International Journal of Manpower, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The choice of Southern Europe is partly based on the observation that the sample
includes a number of countries whose economies faced more severe difficulties than …

Impact of COVID-19 on trade in services

M Ando, K Hayakawa - Japan and the World Economy, 2022 - Elsevier
During past shocks (eg, the 2008–2009 global financial crisis), the services trade was found
to be more resilient than the goods trade; however, the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID …

COVID‐19, trade collapse and GVC linkages: European experience

KZ Kejžar, A Velić, JP Damijan - The World Economy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper highlights the role of supply chain linkages for the transmission of COVID‐19‐
induced shocks based on the monthly trade of the European Union Member States during …