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• Msc, Mphil Selected Publications Journal Articles (in print or forthcoming) 1) ‘Assessing the contribution of land, sea and air transport capital to the economic performance of the small island state of Mauritius’ with A J Khadaroo, 2007, Appli...More

  Msc, Mphil Selected Publications Journal Articles (in print or forthcoming) 1) ‘Assessing the contribution of land, sea and air transport capital to the economic performance of the small island state of Mauritius’ with A J Khadaroo, 2007, Applied Economics Letters, 14, 1151-1155 2) ‘Human capital and Economic development: Allowing for causality and feedback effects in a VAR framework' 2007, Journal of Applied Economics, VI, 86-95 3) ‘Financial development and economic growth: An ARDL approach for the case the small island state of Mauritius’, 2008, forthcoming in Applied Economics. 4) ‘Transport and Tourism Development’, 2007, with A J Khadaroo, in Annals of Tourism Research, 34 (4), 1021-1032 5) ‘Transport infrastructure and tourism development: A dynamic Gravity model Approach’, 2008, with A J Khadaroo, forthcoming in Tourism Management. 6), ‘Transport and economic performance: The case of Mauritius’, 2008 with A J Khadaroo, forthcoming in Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. 7) ‘Determinants of Capital Structure: A case study from a small island developing economy’ 2007, with D Padachi and R K Ronoowah, Journal of Applied Finance, Vol 13(3), 5-28 8)‘Does transport infrastructure matter in overall tourism development? Evidence from a sample of island economies’, 2007 with A J Khadaroo in Tourism Economics, 13(4), 675-684 9) ‘An empirical assessment of the role of debt in economic growth: The African Case in a panel VAR framework’, in the International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2008, Vol. 8, (3). 10) ‘The economic importance of education: Evidences from Africa using dynamic panel data analysis’ 2008, forthcoming in Journal of Applied Economics. Refereed Conferences Articles 1) ‘Public capital and economic growth: Evidences from a small island economy’, 2006, with A J Khadaroo, proceedings of 9th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, June 7-8, Addis-Abeba, Ethopia (awarded full scholarship by the UNECA) 2) ‘Are there Gender-Separate Education Effects on Growth? A Dynamic Time Series Analysis’, 2006, paper presented at the ACDC conference, November 18-20, 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil (awarded a full scholarship) 3) ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Economic growth: Evidences from Sub-Saharan African counties’,2007, paper presented at the CSAE conference, March 18-21, St Catherine College, University of Oxford, UK.(awarded full scholarship) 4) ‘ Transport infrastructure and FDI: Lessons from Sub Saharan African Economies’, 2007, with A J Khadaroo, paper presented at the African Economic Conference (AEC), 15-17 Nov 2007, UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.(Awarded full scholarship) 5) ‘External Debt and Economic Growth Relationship: A Vector Error Correction Approach’, 2007, with R Durbarry, paper presented at the 5th International Academy of Business and Economics, October 14-17 2007,Platza Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, US 6) ‘Urban Infrastructure and Poverty: The Experience of Sub-Saharan African Countries using a Dynamic Panel Estimation’, 2007, with S T Ramessur, paper presented at the London School of Economics, Theme: “Beyond the Tipping Point: Development in an Urban World”, 18-20 October 2007. Chapters in Book 1) ‘The role of Transport infrastructure in a destination’s attractiveness: A Panel Data Approach for the case of Mauritius’ (edited) chapter in Academic Renewal: Innovation in Leisure and Tourism Theories and Methods; Editors: Fiona Jordan, Lindsey Kilgour and Nigel Morgan. (LSA Publication No. 96) 2) ‘Does Transport Infrastructure matters in International Tourism Development? ‘(edited) chapter in Making Space: Managing Resources for Leisure and Tourism; editors Tim Gale, Nigel Curry and Jenny Hill (LSA Publication No.99). Consultancy/Project Work/ Professional Training. • UNCTAD (2006)– ‘Foreign Direct Investment and TNC’s in Tourism in Mauritius: The development dimension’ in collaboration with Ass Prof Durbarry (team leader). Report forming part of the UNCTAD research and policy analysis project ‘FDI in tourism: the development dimension. Grant : US$ 15,000 • United Nations University (2006)- ‘ Learning to compete in Asia and Africa: A Study of computer Hardware’ in collaboration with S Rojid, study funded by the UNU-MERIT, Maasticht, The Netherlands. Grant: US$ 6000 • Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, SACAU (2006)- ‘ A study on the existence of all regional Commodity Associations in the SADC and ESA Region’, with S Rojid, study funded by the SACAU. Grant: US$ 4000 • Imani (2007) “Study on the Development of the Services Sector and Services Negotiations under the Economic Partnership Agreement” – EU funded project implemented by Imani (South Africa), for the Government of Mauritius • UNCTAD (2007) ‘Localisation of 2 sets of Generic Training Materials for UNCTAD Virtual Institute (UNCTAD Vi)’ with Rojid S and Sannasee V: $2000 • UNCTAD (2007) “Comparative study of GAFTA, COMESA and SAARC – RTAs in three different region (Arab, Africa and Asia)” with Rojid, Sanassee, Fowdar, Awad, Bakir, Mehra and Pant for UNCTAD: Grant: $ 4000 Reviewer Acting as reviewer for the following journals/conferences. • Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. • Journal of Developing Areas • Annals of Tourism Research . BY YASAR UNIVERSI • International Board of Reviewers, CSITEd Conference • International Academy of Business and Economics (US) Less

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