The Catawba Digital Economic Zone (“CDEZ”) achieved a number of firsts when it launched in late 2022: the world’s first entirely virtual special jurisdiction devoted to financial services using technologies like blockchains, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and artificial intelligence...

The precise impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African economies is still unknown, however if the crisis persists, it is likely to have huge economic ramifications on the continent. Financial Technology (FinTech), which has made a positive contribution in Africa can significantly support the...

This study analyzes the effects of government policies on the short-run and long-run movement of locally owned firms from a developed country to a less-developed country and on the output and growth rate of each country in the presence of home bias. The analysis uses a model which was developed...

This paper argues that the overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the least developed and developing countries is massive, with a potentially very high number of casualties: we float an entirely arbitrary figure of 100 million. To arrive at this number, we collect and collate the different...