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Dr Syed Ali Abbas

Department: Accounting, Economics, and Finance

Office/Location: O2.41 F, Ogmore Building, Cardiff School of Management, Llandaff Campus

Telephone: +44 (0)29 2041 7165

Email: saabbas@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Staff Overview

​​Syed is a lecturer in Economics in the School of Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He studied MSc Economics and Finance and later MS Economics from Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan. He then earned an MPhil degree in Economics from Bond University, Australia. Later, Syed received a Doctoral degree in Economics from Griffith University, Australia.​

Syed has worked as a research and teaching associate at Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan. He has also served as a lecturer at the Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), in Pakistan. Syed also held Teaching Fellow positions at Bond University (Aus) and Griffith University, Australia.

Teaching

Syed has taught various courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is experienced in teaching Basic Economics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Monetary Economics, Statistics for Business, Economic Policy Analysis, and Business Data Analytics. Syed has supervised BSc (Hons.) and MBA/ MSc students in research projects and dissertations.

Research

​Syed is interested in areas of applied

  • Macroeconomics

  • Development Finance

  • International and development economics

  • International political economy

  • Energy, climate, and environment​​​

Key Publications

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Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, E. A., & Selvanathan, S. (Forthcoming). Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Remittances in South Asia. Applied Economics.

Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, S., & Selvanathan, E. A. (2023). Structural transformation, urbanization, and remittances in developing countries: A panel VAR analysis. Economic Analysis and Policy, 79, 55-69.

Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, E. A., & Selvanathan, S. (2023). The foreign aid and remittance nexus: Evidence from South Asia. The World Economy, 46(7), 2032-2053.

Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, S., Jayasinghe, M. S., Selvanathan, E. A., & Iftekhar, M. S. (2022). Energy consumption, agriculture, forestation, and CO2 emission nexus: an application to OECD countries. Applied Economics, 55(37), 4359–4376.

Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, E. A., & Selvanathan. S. (2022). Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis. Bottomless Basket Turns Overflowing Bowl: Bangladesh- A South Asian Miracle, Hossain, M. M., Ahmad, Q. K., & Islam, M. M. (eds.), Routledge Publishers, Singapore.

Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, E. A., Selvanathan, S., & Bandaralage, J. S. (2021). Are remittances and foreign aid interlinked? Evidence from least developed and developing countries. Economic Modelling, 94, 265-275

Abbas, S. A., & Syed, S. H. (2021). Sectarian terrorism in Pakistan: Causes, impact, and remedies. Journal of Policy Modeling, 43 (2), 350-361.

Abbas, S. A., & Falarti, M. M. (2018). Foreign Military Aid as Good Governance? The Case of South Asia. Global Governance and Regulation: Order and Disorder in the 21st Century, Ireland-Piper, D., & Wolff, L. (eds.), Routledge Publishers, New York.


Other Projects and activities

Conference Presentations

Abbas, S. A., & Zaman, A. (2023). Impact of Digital Economy on Achieving (selected) SDGs: Evidence from Emerging Economies. The 7th Advances in Management and Innovation (AMI) Conference, 16-17 May, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

 Abbas, S. A., Selvanathan, E. A., & Selvanathan, S. (2021). Foreign Aid and Remittance Nexus: Evidence from South Asia, paper presented in the Australian Conference of Economists (ACE 2021), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (12-14th July 2021).

 Abbas, S. A., & Falarti, M. (2015). When craving for foreign military aid is not considered publicly as a crime? Continuous Military Aid as a Peace Maker & Growth for South Asia, conference paper presented in an interdisciplinary conference, Global Order and Disorder: Governance and Regulation in 21st Century, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia (7-8th August 2015).

Abbas, S. A., & Akhtar, S. T. (2010). Export Performance Sustainability and Geographical Concentration of Exports in Pakistan, paper presented in the 20th International Trade and Finance Association (ITFA) conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, US (23-26 May 2010).​

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