Research

Publications

• 2023, An analysis of value chain trade in Africa, World Economy, (With Nigatu, S.N and Majune. S)[AERC Working Paper]
• 2023, Firms in Global Value Chains during Covid-19: Evidence from Indonesia, Policy Research Working Paper No 10514, World Bank, Washington, DC.  (With Ghose, D)
• 2023, Early Impacts of Indonesia’s Investment Reforms : A Preliminary Analysis, (2023) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (PRWP) no. 10478 (with Senelwa, Victor and Doarest, Aufa)
• 2023, Building a Dataset for Non-Tariff Measures and its Usage: The Case of Indonesia and Applicability for Other Countries,  The World Bank (with Massimiliano Cali, Bayu Agnimaruto, Jana Mirjam Silberring, Agnesia Adhissa Hasmand, Csilla Lakatos, and Mochamad Pasha)
• ​2023, Trade Policies and Sea and Air freight: The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Imports and Exports,  Policy Research Working Paper No. 10271. World Bank, Washington, DC. (With Majune, S)
• ​2022, Effects of Import Taxes on Intra-African Trade: New Evidence from a Case Study of Malawi’s Imports,  World Economy. Accepted Author Manuscript.
• ​2022, A Macro and Micro Analysis of Value Chain Trade in Africa, AERC Working Paper No. GVC-011 (With Nigatu, S.N and Majune. S)
• ​2022, Trade Policy and Exporters’ Resilience: Evidence from Indonesia, Policy Research Working Paper No 10068, The World Bank. (With Cali, M., Ghose, D., Ruta, M.)
• ​2022 Invoicing Currency and Symmetric Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Tariffs: Evidence from Malawian Imports from the EU, International Economics, Volume 169, Pages 191-207 [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper]
• ​2022, The Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade in the Philippines, Policy Research Working Paper No. 9911. World Bank, Washington, DC. (With Arena, G.C., and Majune, S)
• ​2021, Exchange rate pass-through and invoicing currency choice between fixed and floating exchange rate regimes: Evidence from Malawi’s transaction-level data, Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 72(C), pages 562-577 (With Sato, Kiyotaka., Shrestha, Nagendra., & Parsons, Craig.
• ​2021, Euro Usage in International Trade Amidst Threats to Multilateralism: Evidence from Malawian Imports, Empirica, 49, pages 485–507
• ​2021, Non-Tariff Measures, Import Competition, and Exports Policy Research Working Paper no. 9801 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group (With M. Cali)
• ​2019, Invoice Currency Choice in Malawi’s Imports from Asia: Is there any evidence of Renminbi Internationalization? The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) Working Paper No. 19-E-060 (With Kiyotaka Sato)
• ​2018, The Role of Commercial Banks on Financial Inclusion in Malawi, Open Journal of Business and Management, 6, 813-832 (with Nkuna, O., Kaude, P. and Kabango, G)
• ​2018, Towards a Supportive Regulatory Environment for Digital Financial Services in MEFMI Countries, MEFMI Research and Policy Journal Issue (2) (With C. N’gandwe)
• ​2015, Financial Inclusion and the Impact of ICT: An Overview, American Journal of Economics, 5(5): 495-500
• ​2015, Financial Inclusion, ICBT and the role of ICT in COMESA, Advances in Economics and Business, 3 (12): 529 – 537
• ​2015, The effects of Financial Inclusion on Monetary Policy Effectiveness: The case of Malawi, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 8 (4): 360–384

Datasets

• 2023, Indonesia Non-Tariff Measures Dataset, The World Bank (with Massimiliano Cali, Bayu Agnimaruto, Jana Mirjam Silberring, Csilla Lakatos, Mochamad Pasha, Agnesia Adhissa Hasmand, Nabil Rizky Ryandiansyah, Muhammad Hazmi Ash Shidqi, Aufa Doarest, Wisnu Harto Adiwojoyo)

Book Chapters/Contributions to edited volumes/Reports

• Indonesia Economic Prospect June 2023: The Invisible Toll of COVID-19 on Learning (2023) with Mansour, W., Hapsari, I.M., Ihsan, A., Ilman, A., Lakatos, C., Abriningrum, D.E., Silberring, J.M., Tedi, K., Rahmadanti, R., Qian, R., Nomura, S., Delbert Lim Hata, A
• 2022, A New Dawn for Global Value Chain Participation in the Philippines, Arenas, Guillermo, and Souleymane Coulibaly, eds.. Washington, DC: World Bank.
• 2020 Indonesia – Revenue and Budget Management: Institutional Diagnostic of Low and Slow Central Government Capital Budget Execution (2020) with Arya, A., Purnomo, H., Ismail, T., Permana, B., Kusdarti, N., Pearson, A., Tripathi, C., Gabriel, J., Ilman, S., Kanani, A
• ​2020, Increasing Agricultural Income and Access to Financial Services Through Mobile Technology in Africa: Evidence from Malawi. In The Palgrave Handbook of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, Palgrave Macmillan
• ​2017, The Nexus between International Financial Integration and Trade in Financial Services in COMESA Region. In COMESA Key Issues in Regional Integration, Vol. 5: 43-65 (with C. Chipeta). COMESA, Lusaka
• ​2016, Financial Inclusion, ICT and Intraregional Trade in COMESA. In COMESA Key Issues in Regional Integration, Vol. 4: 70-87. COMESA, Lusaka

Other

• FDI liberalization through the Omnibus Law on Job Creation published as Box A.2 in December 2022 Indonesia Economic Prospects
• Non-tariff Measures in Indonesia: Reforms for Competitiveness, Export Growth and Resilience, published as Box A.5: in December 2021 Indonesia Economic Prospects
• How trade restrictions affect exports P47-50  (With Khan, Shafaat Yar) and  Investment reform in Indonesia and the Philippines P39-142  published in October 2021 East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
• List of World Bank Blogs  https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/angella-faith-montfaucon

Work in Progress

• Greening Trade through Global Value Chains in Africa (With Majune. S)
• ​Revisiting the Gains from Trade in EMDEs: The Case of Selected East Asian and East African Economies, (2024) Forthcoming with S. Majune and E. Battogtvor
• ​AfCFTA: What it means for AGOA, EBA and trading with Asia?(with Coulibaly, S and Nigatu, S.N)
• Environmental Policies, Non-Tariff Measures, and Export Survival of Green Goods, (2024) Forthcoming with S. Majune and K. Türkcan