Associate Prof Boopen Seetanah PhD
Research
Research Interests/Fields: Research interests are in Applied Economics field (Economic
Development, Trade, Transport and Tourism Economics, Foreign Direct Investment and
Financial Economics)
Methodology: Dynamic Time Series Analysis, Vector Autoregressive Models (VAR),
Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models (ARDL), Probit and Logit Models, Panel data
analysis, Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM), Panel Cointegration and Panel VAR.
The summary of publication in rated journal is as follows (The ranking is the maximum
between ERA and ABDC):
Output
Tier A* Journal
Tier A Journal
Publication
3
12
Number
70
5
15
9
9
Output/Activity
Conference papers
PhD Students (registered)
Funds Generated for Fostering
Capacity Building (Regionally)
Research Grants Income
Reviewer for Journal
Editorial Board Member
Tier B Journal
Tier C Journal
Book
Book Chapter
Industry/technical
Report
H index
Citations
10
13
600
Research Group
Consultancy Projects (Value)
Research Award
2
>$ 320,000
2
$ 625,000
over $ 700,000
13
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles (in print or forthcoming)
Selected Journal Papers
1) ‘Human capital and Economic development: Allowing for causality and feedback effects
in a VAR framework' 2007, Journal of Applied Economics, VI, 86-95 (B Rated)
2) ‘The economic importance of education: Evidences from Africa using dynamic panel data
analysis’ 2009, Journal of Applied Economics, XII, pp 137-157
(B Rated)
3) ‘The determinants of Tourism in South Africa: A dynamic Panel Data Approach’ 2009,
with Durbarry R and J F Ragadoo, Tourism Analysis, 14 (3), 98-118 (A Rated)
4) ‘Urban infrastructure and poverty alleviation in a sample of developing countries’,2009,
with Rojid and Ramessur, International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies
Journal, 9-2 V2 June 2009
(C Rated)
5) ‘Using Panel Co-Integration approach to analyse the determinants of tourism demand in
South Africa’, with Durbarry R and Ragodoo J F,2010 Tourism Economics, Vol 16 (3) pp 715729 (A Rated)
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6) ‘An assessment of the impact of a COMESA Custom Union’, 2010, African Development
Review, Vol 22 (2), pp 331-346 (B rated)
7) ‘Analysing the Sources of Economic Growth in Africa Using Growth a Accounting and a
Panel VAR approach’,2011 with Rojid, S, Journal of Developing Areas, 44 (2), 367-390(B rated)
8) ‘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, 2006, Applied
Economics Letters, 14(2), 1151-1155
(B rated)
9) ‘Transport infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from Africa using dynamic
panel estimates’, 2006, Empirical Economic Letters, Vol 5(1), 37-52 (C rated)
10) ‘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, 13(3), 5-28
(C rated)
11) ‘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 (A
rated)
12)‘Transport and Tourism Development’, 2007, with A J Khadaroo, in Annals of Tourism
Research, 34 (4), 1021-1032 (A* rated)
13) ‘Financial development and economic growth: An ARDL approach for the case the
small island state of Mauritius’, 2008, Applied Economics, 15(10), 809-819 (A rated)
14) ‘Transport infrastructure and tourism development: A Dynamic Gravity Model
Approach’, 2008, with A J Khadaroo, Tourism Management, 29, pp. 831-840 (A* rated)
15), ‘Transport and economic performance: The case of Mauritius’, 2008 with A J Khadaroo,
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 42 (2), 1-13.
(A rated)
16) ‘Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments: Lessons from the African Economies’
with Wahid A and Rojid S, in the Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 9(1),2009,pp70-81,
North American Press
(B rated)
17) ‘Financial development and Economic growth: New Evidence from a sample of Island
Economies’, 2009, with Ramessur S and Rojid S, Journal of Economic Studies,36(2), pp88-97(B
rated)
18) ‘An Investigation of the Day- of- the- Week Effect on Stock Returns in Mauritius’, with
Sawkut R, and Jhagdambi, 2009, the Journal of American Academy of Business, 14(2), pp 195-202
(C rated)
19) ‘An Analysis of the relationship between transport capital and tourism development in a
dynamic time series framework’ 2009, with Khadaroo J, in Tourism Economics, Vol 15(4) ,785803 (A rated)
21) Analyzing Mutual Funds Performance: The Case of Emerging Mauritian Economy,
2009, Beehary Nitish, Rojid Sawkut, Seetanah Boopen, Sannassee Vinesh, Fowdur Suraj,
Journal of Financial Economics, 7(2), 47-56
22) ‘The Role of Transport Infrastructure in FDI: Evidence from Africa using GMM
Estimates’, 2009, with A J Khadaroo, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, vol 43 (3), pp
365-384
(A rated)
23) ‘Transport Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment’, 2010, with A J Khadaroo,
Journal of International Development, 22, pp 103-123
(B rated)
24) ‘Testing Strong Form Efficiency for the case of Mauritius’,with Bundoo S and Pooloo
Z,2010, African Finance Journal, Special Issue, pp27-43 (B rated)
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25) ‘Determinants of FDI: the case of Mauritius in a VAR framework’ with Rojid S, 2011,
African Journal of Economics and Management, Vol 2 (1), pp 54-65 (C rated)
26) ‘Optimal endowments of transport investment: An empirical analysis for Mauritius’,2011,
Empirical Economics, Vol 40, pp 827-838
(A rated)
27) ‘Urban Infrastructure and Poverty: The Experience of Sub-Saharan African Countries
using a Dynamic Panel Estimation’, with S T Ramessur, 2011, Journal of Public Policy and
Politics. Vol 39(2), pp. 221-238(18)
( A rated)
28) ‘Assessing the Dynamic Economic Impact of Tourism for island economies’, 2011,
Annals of Tourism Research
Vol38, Issue 1 , Pages 291-308 (A*)
29) ‘Stock Market, Banking Sector development and economic growth, Evidence from
Developing countries’, 2012, with Subadur, Sannassee and Lamport, Berlin Working Papers on
Money, Trade, Finance and Development, Working Paper No. 05/2012
30) ‘Public Infrastructure Financing and the Poor: Evidence from a Probit model, 2013,
forthcoming in the Journal of Social Policies and Development
31) ‘Marketing promotion financing and tourism development’, with Sannassee, forthcoming
in Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management (A rated)
32) ‘Export Led Growth – A Meta Analysis’ with Sannassee and Jugessur,2013, Journal of
Developing Areas, Volume 48, Number 1, Winter 2014 pp. 361-385 | 10.1353/jda.2014.0018
(B rated)
33) Trust and Repeat Tourism’ with Sannassee, forthcoming in Journal of Hospitality Marketing
and Management (A rated)
34) Assessing the Impact of Tourism and Travel on Climate Change’ with Durbarry
forthcoming in Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management (A rated)
35) “An Econometric Analysis regarding the path of Non-Performing Loans - A Panel Data
analysis from Mauritian Banks and Implications for the Banking Industry” with Poloodo and
Sannassee , forthcoming in the Journal of Developing Areas (2015) B rated
36) “Productivity spillovers of FDI in the Manufacturing sector of Mauritius. Evidence from
a dynamic framework”, with Fauzel and Sannassee, forthcoming in the Journal of Developing Areas
(2015) B rated
37) “A PVAR approach to the modeling of FDI and spill overs effects in Africa”, with
Fauzel and Sannassee , forthcoming in International Journal of Business and Economics (B Rated)
38) ‘Relative Prices and tourism development’-with Sannassee- forthcoming in Development
Southern Africa (B rated)
39) ‘Central Bank Independence and Inflation’, with Sannassee and Dilmohamed, forchcoming in
African Development Review (B rated)
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Selected Refereed Conferences Articles
1) ‘Is Transport capital productive? Evidences from panel sets of SSA and SIDS countries’,
2005, paper presented at the Regional Science Association International Annual Conference, 52 (Nov
2005), Las Vegas, USA
2) ‘Analysing transport capital as a determinant of tourist arrival in a co-integration and error
correction framework’, 2005, paper presented at the International Business Conference, University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Dec 2005.
3) ‘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, AddisAbeba, Ethopia (awarded full scholarship by the UNECA)
4) ‘Are there Gender-Separate Education Effects on Growth? A Dynamic Time Series
Analysis’, 2006, proceedings of the ACDC conference, November 18-20, 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(awarded a full scholarship)
5) ‘Stock Market Development and Financing Choices of firms: A case study of a SIDS’,
2006, with Padachi K, paper presented at the International Business Conference, Melbourne, Nov
2006.
6) ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Economic growth: Evidences from Sub-Saharan African
counties’,2007, proceedings of the CSAE conference, March 18-21, St Catherine College,
University of Oxford, UK.(awarded full scholarship)
7) ‘Transport infrastructure and FDI: Lessons from Sub Saharan African Economies’, 2007,
with A J Khadaroo, proceedings of the African Economic Conference (AEC), 15-17 Nov 2007, UN
Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.(Awarded full funding)
8) ‘External Debt and Economic Growth Relationship: A Vector Error Correction
Approach’, 2007 with Durbarry R, Paper presented at the 5th International Academy of Business and
Economics, Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 14-17 October 2007.
9) ‘Urban Infrastructure and Poverty: The Experience of Sub-Saharan African Countries
using a Dynamic Panel Estimation’, 2007, with S T Ramessur, proceedings of London School of
Economics conference, Theme: “Beyond the Tipping Point: Development in an Urban World”,
18-20 October 2007.(awarded full funding)
10) ‘Trade Patterns, Performance and Potentials in SAFTA’, 2008, with Rojid S A and
Ramessur S, paper presented at the International Conference on Investments, Technology Spill overs and
the East Asia FTAs, Shanghai, China, 10-11 October 2008.(awarded full funding)
11) ‘An Econometric Analysis of policy effects on economic performance in COMESA’
with Rojid S, Ramessur S, Sannasee V and Fowdur S, paper presented at the Sixth Meeting of the
Monetary and Exchange Rates Policies Sub Committee of COMESA, October 6 to 8, 2008, Lusaka,
Zambia
12) ‘Financial Bootstrapping Among the Mauritian Small Medium Sized Enterprises’, with
Padachi K, paper presented at the AIBC (Applied International Business Conference), 2008,
Hotel Grand Dorsett, Labuan, Malaysia, 6th to 8th November, 2008.
13) ‘Tourism and economic growth; African experience using panel VAR’, with Rojid and
Padachi, 2009, proceedings of the CSAE conference, March 22-24, St Catherine College, University
of Oxford, UK (awarded full scholarship).
14) ‘Transportation Capital and Private Capital Formation in Mauritius: Testing the
Substitutability and Complementarity Hypotheses’, 2009, with A J Khadaroo. proceedings of the
CSAE conference, March 22-24, St Catherine College, University of Oxford, UK (awarded full
scholarship)
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15) ‘The Impact of inflation on Financial development: The case study of Mauritius, 2009,
with Padachi and Rojid, proceedings of the CSAE conference, March 22-24, St Catherine College,
University of Oxford, UK.
16) ‘State Business Relationship and economic growth: A dynamic time series for the case of
Mauritius’ 2009 with Rojid S, paper presented at 65th Annual Congress of the International
Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) Congress, Cape Town, 13-17, August 2009 (awarded funding)
17) ‘Transport infrastructure and economic development in Africa: A dynamic panel data
approach’, 2009, AEC conference, Cambridge University, UK, 14-17 October
18) ‘On the Dynamic Relation between stock market development and capital structure of
firms, the case of Mauritius’, with Padachi and Seetanah B, paper presented at the 14 th
Annual Finsia and Melboune Center for financial studies, Banking and Finance Conference,
Reassessing the Role of Financial Services, University of Melbourne, 28-29 September 2009
19) ‘Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: the case of developing countries’,
with Sanasee, Rojid and Seetanah, paper presented at the CSAE conference, 2010, 21-24
March, Oxford University, UK (under full funding)
20) ‘Is COMESA growth Conducive?’, 2010,with Rojid, AEC conference, Oxford University,
Oxford, UK, June, 28-30
21) ‘Lessons Learned from the Policy Response to the Crisis: The case of Mauritius
Economy’, 2010 with J Morriset, F Bastos, S Rojid, M Lamport and R V Sannassee, paper presented
at the DaaD Workshop, Berlin, March 2010.
22) "Central Bank Controls and financial development: Lessons from a small island
developing state" 2010, with Seetanah B, Sannassee and Gooroochurn, paper presented at
the Australian Centre for Financial Studies Conference, Melbourne Australia. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1594866
23) ‘Welfare Implications for African RTA’s in Agricultural Trade’, with Rojid, paper
presented at the DaaD Conference, Amman, Jordan, 2-4th ,Nov 2010
24) ‘Co2 and economic growth’, with Sannasee, 2011, paper presented at CSAE centre,
Oxford University, 22-24 March 2011, St Catherine College, Oxford (fully funded)
25) ‘Analysing the role of transport infrastructure in a Translog Framework’, paper presented
at Cambridge Conference on Business and Economics, ABER, Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge, June 27-29 2011.
26) ‘Determinants of Financial Development: The Case of Mauritius’,2011, with Binesh
Seetanah, Padachi Kesseven and Hossany J, paper presented at the 2nd Finance and
Corporate Governance Conference, 2011, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Paper.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1724404)
27) ‘Financial Development and FDI: An ARDL approach’, with Sannassee and
Maudarbacus, paper presented at the DaaD network, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil,
September 2011
28) Impact of Tourism Development on the local Community Seetanah B, Padachi K, Sannassee
R V, Hossany J International International Tourism Sustainability Conference 2011
Embracing Social and Environmental Change: The Influence and Role of Tourism ,21-24
Sept 2011, Intercontinental hotel, Mauritius.
29) ‘Exchange Rate Volatility And Macroeconomic Performance in Small Island Developing
States’, with Polodoo, V and Padachi, K, paper presented at WTO Chair Programme
international conference on International trade and finance, Dec 20-21,2011, Le Meridien
Hotel, Mauritius
30) ‘Sensitiveness Of Trade In Services To Exchange Rate Movements- An African
Perspective with Poloodoo, Sannassee and Brooks, ICITI 2012, Le Meridien, Mauritius
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31) Trade Openness And Economic Performance: An African Perspective, with Sannassee,
Matadeen and Matadeen, ICITI 2012, Le Meridien, Mauritius
32) Energy use, Emissions, Economic growth and Trade: Evidence from Mauritius, ICITI
2012, with Neeliah, conference proceedings of ICITI2012, Le Meridien,Mauritius.
33) ‘From an Agri based to a Service sector economy’ , paper presented at the CSAE 2013
annual Conference, St Catherine College, University of Oxford, 22-24 March 2013
34)’ Interest Rate Risk Management: Evidence from Mauritius Commercial Banks’ with P
Thakoor, paper presented at the Cambridge Business and economics Conference, Cambrige
University , UK 02-03 July 2013
35) Modelling the upshots of a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTAs) between Mauritius and its main
trading partners within the SADC trading bloc, with Poloodoo and Sannassee, ICITI2013
36) Financial Development, Financial Openness and Trade Openness: Evidence From Mauritius, with
Matadeen and Matadeen, ICITI2013
37) The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade in Goods- A Mauritian Perspective, with
Poloodoo, Sannassee and Brooks, paper presented at the CSAE 2014 conference, Oxford
University 22-24 March 2014
38) Stock Market Development: an Assessment of its Economic Impact from an African
Perspective, with J Matadeen, paper presented at the CSAE 2014 conference, Oxford
University 22-24 March 2014 (full funding)
39) Capital Structure and Firm performance: Evidence from an emerging economy with Kevin Appadu
And K Padachi, Paper Presented At The International Conference On Business And
Economic Development (ICBED) New York, USA, 24th - 25th March 2014
40) Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in SADC: An Empirical Analysis with Sannassee
Raja Vinesh; Seetanah Boopen and Diksha Hemraze, University of Mauritius, Reduit,
Mauritius. Paper presented at International Conference on Business and Economic
Development (ICBED) New York, USA, 24th - 25th March 2014
41)Productivity spillovers effects from FDI: Evidence from Africa, with Fauzel and Sannassee, paper
presented at the TIPS/SA-EU Strategic Partnership conference on ‘Manufacturing Led
Growth for Employment and Equality’,JoBurg, South Africa, 21-23 May 2014 (Fully funded)
42) Macroeconomics Determinants of Corporate Financial Distress: Evidence from Listed
Companies on SEM” with AAFA Conference, 2014, Cape Town”
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).
3) ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: The African Experience’ in Generic Training
Materials for UNCTAD Virtual Institute (UNCTAD Vi)
4) “Comparative study of GAFTA, COMESA and SAARC – RTAs in three different region (Arab,
Africa and Asia)”, 2007, with Rojid, Sanassee, Fowdar, Awad, Bakir, Mehra and Pant for
UNCTAD
5) ‘Transport Infrastructure and FDI: The African Perspective using Cross Section and Panel data’:
African Economic Conference, 2009 Book
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6) ‘African Economic Outlook: 2010: Mobilising finance’, 2010 with J Anyanyu, The
African Economic Outlook, African Development Bank
7) ‘SBR and Economic Growth: The Mauritian Perspective’ (2013) in ‘Good SBR’ edited by K Sen;
Routledge publications
8)’Tourism and Economic Development’: African Evidence from Panel Vector Autoregressive
Framework, 2011, with K Padachi, and S Rojid, in Growth and Institutions in African
Development Routledge publications, edited by Augustin Fosu
9) "Demographic Transition and Savings Behaviour in Mauritius" (2014) in “Emerging Markets and the
Global Economy: A Handbook, Elsevier publications, with Sannassee and Tandrayen and
Moreno R (World Bank),edited by Duc Khuong Nguye Sabri Boubaker and Mohammed,
Elsevier Publications
10) Export diversification and economic growth: the case of Mauritius , with Sannassee and Lamport ,
(2014)in ‘Connecting to Global Markets Challenges and Opportunities’ WTO publications
WTO Publications World Trade Organization, Edited by Ms Marion Jansen (ERSD, WTO),
Mr Maarten Smeets (ITTC, WTO), Mustapha Sadni Jallab
11) ‘Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Insurance Industry of Mauritius’
(2014) in ‘Connoisseur strategies for Global Business Management :Trends and Techniques’, with
Clifford Appasamy,, Matthew Lamport, Boopendra Seetanah, Raja Vinesh Sannassee, ISBN
978-93-83241-04-0. Publisher: Archers and Elevators Publishing House, Bangalore, India’
edited by Ganesh and Vani
12) “Trade Mainstreaming, Country Review, UNDP (2012).
13)’ Trade and Co2 Emmission’ forthcoming in Elsevier publication
Reviewer
Acting as reviewer for the following journals/conferences (selected)
Journals
 Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.
 African Economic Review
 European Journal of Development Studies
 Annals of Regional Science
 Journal of Applied Economics
 Journal of Developing Areas
 Empirical Economics
 Journal of Economic Studies
 Journal of Economics and International Finance
 Tourism Management
 Tourism Economics
 Annals of Tourism Research
 Asian Journal of Hospitality
 Bulletin of Economic Research
 Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management
 International Review of Applied Economics
 Development Southern African
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Editorial Board:
Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management
International Journal of Afro-Asia Studies
International Journal of Small Economies
E review of tourism research
Journal of Business Innovation
The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability
Conference Organisation
 Co-Chair, The International Conference of Services Marketing Conference(
IRSSM2010, Le Meridien), organized by the University of Mauritius
 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Learning conference organized by the
Tertiary Education Commission
 Member of the Scientific Committee of the IRSSM2011, The 2nd International
Research Symposium in Service Management (IRSSM Co-Chair of the WTO chair/UoM International Conference on International Trade and
Capital Flows, Dec 2011(Special Theme: Regional Integration)
 Co Chair UoM-DaD-WCP conference, 12-14 June 2012, Perspective from Developing
Economies
 Co-Chair of the WTO chair/UoM International Conference on International Trade and
Capital Flows, Oct 2012 (Special Theme: Trade and Financial Crisis)
 Co-Chair of the WTO chair/UoM International Conference on International Trade and
Capital Flows, Sept 2013 (Special Theme: NTM)
 Chair of the Programme Committee, UoM-Washington State Uni-WcP International
conference on Advances in Tourism Hospitality, Marketing and Management. June
2014
 Co Chair of the UoM/AAFA International Conference on , Sept 2015
Selected Research Grants
1) UNCTAD (2006)– ‘Foreign Direct Investment and TNC’s in Tourism in Mauritius: The
development dimension’ with Assc Prof Durbarry (team leader). Report forming part of
the UNCTAD research and policy analysis project ‘FDI in tourism: the development
dimension: Value: $15,000
2) United Nations University (2006)- ‘ Learning to compete in Asia and Africa: A Study of
computer Hardware’ with S Rojid, study funded by the UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The
Netherlands : Value:$6000
3) “Comparative study of GAFTA, COMESA and SAARC – RTAs in three different region
(Arab, Africa and Asia)”, 2007, with Rojid, Sanassee, Fowdar, Awad, Bakir, Mehra
and Pant for UNCTAD. Value $5000
4) IPPG (2008) -‘State Business Relations (SBRs) in Africa’ with Rojid S, School of
Environment and Development University of Manchester/AERC. Value: $20,000
5) COMESA (2008) - ‘Sources of economic growth in COMESA’, with Rojid S,
Ramessur S, Sannassee R and Fowdar S, COMESA Secretariat. Value $ 10800
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6) Decentralised Corperation Programme/EU (2008)- ‘ An Evaluation of the ZEP
project: Expectations v/s Achievements’ with Ramessur S and S Rojid . Value $
25000
7) Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) :‘Service sector development and the
impact on poverty: SADC member countries studies’. 2009 Initiative of The
Southern African Development Research Network (SADRN) funded by Canada's
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), managed by Trade and
Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) and implemented by University of Mauritius
(UoM), Project Leader with Rojid, Sanassee, Lamport and Soobadar. Project Value: $
160,000
8) World Bank Institute (WBI) ‘Welfare Implications for African RTA’s in Agricultural
Trade’ with Rojid , 2008– Funded by the Austrian Ministry of Finance, implemented
by World Bank Institute (WBI), in partnership with the African Institute for
Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the African Economic Research
Consortium (AERC): Value $8,000
9) BIDPA ‘Trade and Poverty in Mauritius: Impact of EU sugar reforms on the
livelihood on sugar cane factory workers’, 2009, with Rojid, Sanassee and Tandrayen,
Botwana Institute for development policy analysis (BIDPA): Value $7000(Grant)
10) African Economic Research Consortium, 2009, Lead Research with Researcher:
Sannassee and Tandrayen ‘An assessment of Intra COMESA trade’ (Research
Grant): Value $12,000
11) TIPS, 2011 ‘Infrastructure and tourism development’, Lead Researcher with
Juwaheer, Sannassee and Lamport Value $6000 (Research Grant)
12) TIPS (South Africa), 2011 ‘Infrastructure and FDI’, with Ramdoyal and Sannassee,
$4000 (Research Grant)
13) Mauritius Research Council,2011‘The role of Infrastructure in Tourism
Development’, with Juwaheer, Sannassee and Lamport, $13,000 (Research Grant)
14) University of Mauritius Research Fund: ‘Attractiveness of FDI in Mauritius: A
study’, 2011,: Grant $ 5000
15) World Bank, 2012 ‘ Demographic and capital accumulation analysis and projection
(value: USD 14, 000), Lead Investigator
16) WTO Chairs Programme (2010-2014): ($58,000/Year): ($232,000).
17) MRC, 2013 ‘The Impact of Foreign Real Estate Investment on land prices in
Mauritius’ with C Brooks, R V Sannassee and K Padachi $5000
18) IDRC, 2013 ‘Gender, Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth: The role of
institution’ $ 400,000 (Principal Investigator and Project Leader)
19) UoM. 2014 ‘Exploring the Contribution of Green Banking as an Emerging Strategy
for Enhancing Sustainable Banking Practices in Mauritius $10,000
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20) MRC, 2014 ‘ An assessment of Household Indebtedness’ $ 5000, with K Padachi, R
V Sanassee and K Seetah
21) UoM (2014) Testing a model of Gambling Intention Among Local Residents,
Pricipal Investigator With R V Sannassee, Seetah And Fauzel (USD 9000)
22) UoM (2014) Community Support for Tourism Development: Integrating Personality
Theory with Theory of Planned Behaviour, with R Nunkoo, Pudaruth. USD 9000
Selected Consultancy
1) Virtual Institute : Localisation of 2 sets of Generic Training Materials for
UNCTAD Virtual Institute (UNCTAD Vi), 2007 with Rojid S and Sannasee V. (
The Economics of Commodities Production and Trade, and The Economic and Legal Aspects
of International Investment Agreements)
2) ADB ‘MIC grant and Technical Assistance to the Mauritian Government’ ,
Project Leader Carlos Molleno, Senior Economist, ADB
3) DB ‘Country Economist (Consultant) for the African Development Bank for the
Preparation of ‘African Economic Outlook 2010’, 2010, with Prof John
Anyanmu, Lead Researcher:
4) World Bank 2009 ‘Infrastructure Stock collection/SPI’, Lead Consultant
5) Mechanism for Transition Stimulus Package MTSP/ERCP, 2010: Independent
Financial Consultant, Lead Consultant with team member Sannassee, Lamport
and Ramdhony
6) World Bank 2009/2010 ‘NTM Data Collection for Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda,
Kenya and Namibia’ Lead Consultant with team member : Tandrayen, Lamport
and Sannassee
7) ERCP, 2011 (Ministry of Finance): Independent Financial Analyst: Technology
Grant Evaluation.
8) UNDP, 2011, ‘Trade Mainstreaming in Mauritius’, lead consultant with R V
Sannassee,
9) UNDP , 2012 , ‘Trade mainstreaming Guideline’, Lead consultant with RV
Sannassee
10) Bank of Mauritius, 2013 ‘ Entry Exams for the post of Analys/Chief
Supervision’
11) UNCTAD(2014),National Plan for the Implementation of the WTO Agreement
on trade facilitation (2014) with Dr Tandrayen and De
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Sannassee.UNCTAD/ITC
12) Green Economy Assessment and Action Plan, Fiscal Assessment, Indicators
Report and Legal Review: The case of Mauritius (2014) with T Ramjawon (Lead
Consultant),RV Sannassee, Brizmohun, Proag and S Sobhee
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