Tahira Yasmin, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Al Ain Campus

+971 3 7024819

tahira.yasmin@aau.ac.ae

Education

Ph.D. Business Management, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia.

MBA, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia.

MSC, Economics, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore.

Bachelor of Economics, Punjab University, Lahore.

Research Interests

Economic Development Policies; Energy Consumption and Sustainable Development; Electricity Tariff and Impact Analysis; Input-output Productivity Analysis

Selected Publications

  • Yasmin, T., El Refae, G.A., Eletter, S. (2024). Highlighting The Role of UAE’s Government Policies in Transition Towards “Circular Economy”. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 487, 723-735.
  • Yasmin, T., El Refae, G.A., Eletter, S. (2023). Examining the impact of effective government stimulus packages amid COVID-19 pandemic in UAE: An input-output analysis. Int. J. of Trade and Global Markets, 18(1), 63-81. 
  • Yasmin, T., El Refae, G.A., Eletter, S. (2022). Digital Healthcare Provision Policies in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Amid COVID-19. In: Yaseen, S.G. (eds) Digital Economy, Business Analytics, and Big Data Analytics Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol 1010. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05258-3_18
  • Kaba, A., El Refae, G.A., & Eletter, S., Yasmin, T. (2022). Testing a proposed ROI for academic libraries. Library Hi Tech News, 4(4), 15-18.
  • Eletter, S., Yasmin,T., Elrefae, G.A., & Elrefae, A. (2020). The use of data mining to improve breast cancer diagnosis. Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences, 24(1), 1-6.
  • Yasmin,T., El Refae, G.A., & Eletter, S. (2020). Structural Transformation and Impact of Oil Price Change in Saudi Arabia Economy: Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis. Scientific Journal of King Faisal University, 21(2), 7-14. 
  • Alshawaf, A., & Yasmin, T. (2020). The Role of Technical Innovation and Development of Industrial Sector in Korean International Business. International Journal of Business and Society22(1), 55-73.
  • Yasmin,T., El Refae, G.A., & Eletter, S. (2019). Sectoral Productivity in Hungarian Economy: An Input-output Linkages Approach, Journal of Eastern Europe and Central Asian Research, 6(2), 344-355.
  • Eletter, S., Yasmin, T., & El Refae, G.A. (2019). Marketing Intelligence in the Era of Big Data.TEM Journal, 8(3), 938-944.

Teaching Courses

Managerial Economics, Principles of  Micro Economics, Principles of Macro Economics, Quality Management, International Business.

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  

 

Memberships

Review of Energy Exploration & Exploitation 

International Input-output Association

International Business Review

 

Article

Examining the impact of effective government stimulus packages amid COVID-19 pandemic in UAE: An input-output analysis

Published in: Int. J. of Trade and Global Markets

Nov 20, 2023

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

The Coronavirus pandemic as (COVID-19) has not only caused the infectious disease and harm the human life. But it has further sparked fears of great recession due to global lock down with no economic activities. Current paper examines the impact of current pandemic and relevant stimulus packages on UAE economy by using input-output analysis. Overall, results show that these measures have positive effect on aggregate sectoral output level. With the increase in production, it is estimated that this will further lead to a per annum increase of 2.9% of GDP in coming four years’ time. In summary, the key findings suggest that in current lock down and economic turmoil the main aim is not to increase the overall GDP, but to relieve those who deprived from their normal incomes. In this regard, UAE has effective fiscal and monetary policies to rehabilitate the economy from COVID-19 crisis and move towards sustainable growth.


Article

Examining the impact of effective government stimulus packages amid COVID-19 pandemic in UAE: An input-output analysis

Published in: Int. J. of Trade and Global Markets

Nov 20, 2023

The Coronavirus pandemic as (COVID-19) has not only caused the infectious disease and harm the human life. But it has further sparked fears of great recession due to global lock down with no economic activities. Current paper examines the impact of current pandemic and relevant stimulus packages on UAE economy by using input-output analysis. Overall, results show that these measures have positive effect on aggregate sectoral output level. With the increase in production, it is estimated that this will further lead to a per annum increase of 2.9% of GDP in coming four years’ time. In summary, the key findings suggest that in current lock down and economic turmoil the main aim is not to increase the overall GDP, but to relieve those who deprived from their normal incomes. In this regard, UAE has effective fiscal and monetary policies to rehabilitate the economy from COVID-19 crisis and move towards sustainable growth.


Conference Paper

Highlighting The Role of UAE’s Government Policies in Transition Towards “Circular Economy”

Published in: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

Oct 05, 2023

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

There is a widespread debate about sustainability and economic growth without posing threats on the planet and humanity. United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set a vital example to be part of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as according to Agenda 2030. This paper assesses the policies and plans on accelerating the implementation of the circular economy model in four main sectors—manufacturing, food, infrastructure, and transport. The overall discussion has highlighted the UAE government plans in creating a circular economy. Moreover, we are also looking the government potential plans in this process, suggesting effective policies such as capacity building, renewable energy, waste management, awareness, and monitoring. Current study emphasizes that transitioning to a circular economy presents both a significant opportunity and an enormous challenge. An opportunity in that the commercialization of low-carbon solutions, including clean energy technologies, can further catalyze an important emerging market and support the transformation of the UAE energy sector. This initiative is even greater when you consider the requirement to make investments today for benefits that will materialize well into the future. A successful achievement of SDGs will require close coordination between policies, technology and capital, at the core of which is partnership between the public and private sector as well as opportunities to collaborate with countries around the world.


Conference Paper

Digital Healthcare Provision Policies in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Amid COVID-19

Published in: Digital Economy, Business Analytics, and Big Data Analytics Applications

Sep 27, 2022

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

The COVID-19 crisis has caused sudden pressure on health sector all around worldwide to meet the emergent safety and care needs. The pandemic has caused many governments to invest in technology to meet the increased healthcare demand. In the same lines, current study discussed the various digital solutions used in UAE healthcare sector amid pandemic. These solutions helped to facilitate people at wide scale while dropping the infection rate in the country. The adoption of technologies also displays the collaborated role of UAE government and health authorities. This unified approach has made UAE as a safest destination for nationals, residents and visitors. The innovative policies helped to meet the sudden health care challenges while paving the new road towards telemedicine. The study suggested that careful policies needed to have sustainable implementation of digital health approach.


Article

The Role of Technical Innovation and Development of Industrial Sector in Korean International Business

Published in: International Journal of Business and Society

Apr 05, 2021

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

With the pace of development and competitiveness, innovation plays an important role to capture the market share. Various countries have effective strategies to enhance Research and Development (R&D) and exchange value added products in international market. So, based on this the aim of this research is to examine the role of R&D, industrial design and charges for intellectual property in innovative exports in South Korean economy. Time series data for the period 1998 to 2017, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models are used to determine the dynamic interrelationship among the study variables. In summary, the overall results show that there is co-integration rank of in both trace test and value test at 1% significance level. Moreover, OLS and GMM findings depict that there is significant and positive coefficient for ID & RD which represent that they have positive impact on HT. Whereas, the IP displays a negative and significant relationship with high technology exports accordingly. Lastly, the diagnostic tests show that model is stable for the study time period and result is reliable. The current study also suggests some policy implications which can enhance innovative export products of South Korea while enhancing R&D.


Article

Urgency towards economic diversification through effective reforms in Caspian Basin

Published in: JOURNAL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN RESEARCH

Dec 04, 2020

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

This paper highlights that, in the Caspian Basin, the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price fluctuations have cast negative impacts on oil-exporting economies. These resource-abundant economies have faced revenue contraction and dwindling budget expenditures due to oil price changes. This study has examined export and economic diversification analyses for all economies and has concluded that the Caspian region cannot achieve full economic diversification due to over-dependence on oil revenues. Most of the export-oriented sectors consist of minerals and oil and gas, neglecting the more sustainable growth of non-resource tradable sectors. As a result, the export diversification index demonstrates that a huge share of exports in these countries is mainly natural resources. Economic diversification, which is based on sectoral value-added, also indicates that these countries show some signs of diversity, but the utmost need to have structural reforms and policy instruments to diversify their revenue stream remains. However, with the passage of time and a renewable energy strategy, these economies will achieve economic diversification targets.


Article

Structural Transformation and Impact of Oil Price Change in Saudi Arabia Economy: Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis

Published in: Structural Transformation and Impact of Oil Price Change in Saudi Arabia Economy: Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis

Dec 01, 2020

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

Structural change and economic growth processes have various impacts on both the micro and macroeconomic levels. The current study aims to shed light on various aspects of sectoral changes in the Saudi Arabian economy due to oil price shocks, which have profound effects on economic growth in various sectors. This paper re-attempts to explore the various sectoral changes by using an input–output structural decomposition analysis for 2010 to 2015. The main focus is on changes in the economic structure of Saudi Arabia, which has been divided into three components –intermediate, technical, and total output – with different levels and plans. The main findings show that since 2010 there has been a remarkable change in the production process and sectoral performance. From a policy perspective, it seems that the economy has advanced fast enough and displayed changes oriented by new policies and diversification plans. Moreover, the economy may show dynamic sustainable economic development, especially with new fiscal plans. Educational development is also one of the key initiatives in Saudi Arabia to enhance economic performance with structural change.


Article

SECTORAL PRODUCTIVITY IN HUNGARIAN ECONOMY: AN INPUT-OUTPUT LINKAGES APPROACH

Published in: JOURNAL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN RESEARCH

Nov 25, 2019

/ Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae / Shorouq Eletter

Depending on the pace of economic development and structural reforms in an economy, the sectoral output level also changes. Usually, sectoral capital accumulation, labor reallocation across sectors, and total factor productivity contributes to sectoral performance. This paper explores the pace of economic development and sectors’ role in the Hungary economy in the context of the demand and supply side. The current study aims to analyze input-output linkages to locate structural changes and inter-connectivity in the Hungarian economy. The main findings have shown that on the demand and supply sides, key sectors, such as manufacturing, metals, wholesale and retail trade, and telecommunications, are prominent. These sectors have an important place in the economy and need continuous monitoring to enhance productivity and output levels. The results lead to an important recommendation that the Hungarian economy needs to implement careful planning in order to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to be a hub of investment. There is also utmost importance to promote education to have human capital in order to meet long-term challenges. Lastly, the country still has a high level of global competitiveness, which sheds light on its new economic policies and its readiness for technical innovation, a successful marketplace, and specialization processes.


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Interaction Between Environmental Kuznet Curve and Urban Environment Transition Hypotheses in Malaysia

Published in: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy

Oct 20, 2019

Hussain Ali Bekhet Nor Salwati Othman / Tahira Yasmin

The aim of this paper is to examine the interconnection between the environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) and urban environment transition hypotheses in the Malaysian economy. Economic growth, CO2 emissions, energy consumption, financial development (FD), urbanization variables for the 1971-2013 period, F-bound tests, and multivariate Granger causality methods are used. The long-run relationships among the above series of variables are examined. Also, the findings confirm the existence of an inveretd EKC hypothesis in the Malaysian economy. Furthermore, the study implies that long-run urban sprawl can create environmental and health burdens in Malaysia. Moreover, the causality analysis finds bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and energy consumption, between economic growth and urbanization, and from economic growth to FD. The overall results suggest that a rapid urbanization process can help to reduce the level of pollution and energy consumption by employing technical innovation and ecological modernization. In addition, the increased energy efficiency, implementation of energy savings projects, energy conservation, and energy infrastructure outsourcing reduce the level of pollution produced by urban areas. Also, alternative biofuels can reduce the emission intensity and fulfill future energy needs.


Article

Marketing Intelligence in the Era of Big Data

Published in: Technology Education Management Informatics

Aug 28, 2019

/ Shorouq Eletter / Tahira Yasmin / Ghaleb El Refae

Telemarketing is a cost-effective instrument that offers products or services to customers through two-way and one-to-one communications over the phone. This research will use a real data collected from a Portuguese retail bank dataset during (May/ 2008 to June/ 2013) period, in order to sell long term deposits. The dataset comprises a total of 20 variables in a total of 41188 telephone contacts, and a binary (“yes” or “no”) response variable that describes whether or not the customer will purchase the long-term deposit. Logistic regression and Naïve base models are built for benchmarking. Based on the results, the predictive performance of the multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks is better than the other models.


Article

Investigating source change of economic development in Malaysia: total input cost approach

Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research

Oct 18, 2017

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin

The paper examines compositional structure changes in the Malaysian economy, over 1980–2015, when nine plans were implemented and five I-O tables were published by Department of Statistics Malaysia. Input side is utilised to evaluate changes in economic efficiency. The study focuses on changes in economic structure with different levels of development over time. As results indicate, the source of economic development in the Malaysian economy is final demand for 1983–1987, 1991–2000, 2000–2005 and 2005–2010 periods and for the whole period of the study. A rise in efficiency over time for the 1983–1987, 1987–1991 and 1991–2000 periods was revealed. Furthermore, the efficiency degree between the above sub periods increased over time but remains weak over the study period. There is also vital change in value added structure in recent years. The economy has not moved fast enough forward, and is not geared by the type of exports that sustains a dynamic industrial development. Overall, there is need of implementation of various effective policies regarding R&D, innovation and human capital to meet future challenges.


Article

Dynamic Linkages among Energy, CO2 Emissions, Economic growth and Financial Development Patterns in Malaysia: Time Series Approach

Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research

Jun 07, 2017

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin Raed Walid Al-Smadi

The aim of this research is to examine the dynamic relationship among financial development, economic growth, energy consumption, CO2 emissions and gross fixed capital formation in Malaysia. Time series data for the period 1970 to 2013, the ARDL model and multivariate Granger causality tests are used to determine the dynamic interrelationship among the study variables. The overall results show: 1) that all the variables are co-integrated during the study period; 2) a long- and short-run relationship existed between energy consumption and economic growth; 3) a long-run unidirectional Granger causality among the study variables is found; 4) there is a bidirectional causality running from economic growth to energy consumption and CO2 emission in the short run. It concludes that, with financial development and economic growth, effective energy policies need to cut the emissions level. The present study may guide the policymakers in formulating proper energy planning in Malaysia to attain future environmental targets while enhancing the financial perspective.


Article

Exploring the relationship between CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in GCC countries : Econometric Analysis

Published in: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Apr 01, 2017

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin Ali Matar

This study investigates the dynamic causal relationships among carbon emissions, financial development, economic growth, and energy consumption for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 1980 through 2011. Annual time series data and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model are used. The main contribution of this paper is that it has investigated the causes of carbon emissions by taking into account the role of financial development and economic growth in GCC countries. The results suggest long-run and causal relationships among carbon emissions, financial development, gross domestic product (GDP), and energy use in all GCC countries except United Arab Emirates (UAE). Moreover, there is long-run unidirectional causality running from carbon emissions to energy use in the case of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. Furthermore, a one-way causal relationship from financial development to carbon emissions in the context of UAE, Oman, and Kuwait is found. The evidence suggests that financial systems should take into account environmental aspects in their current operations in these countries. The results of this study may be of great importance for policy and decision makers in developing energy policies for GCC countries that contribute to curbing carbon emissions while preserving economic growth.


Conference Paper

Rapid Economic Growth and Natural Gas Consumption Nexus: Looking forward from Perspective of 11th Malaysian Plan

Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Nov 18, 2016

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin

The present study investigates the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption by incorporating CO2 emissions, natural gas consumption and population in Malaysia. Annual data and F-bound test and granger causality have applied to test the existence of long run relationship between the series. The results show that variables are cointegrated for long run relationship. The results also indicate that natural gas consumption is an important contributing factor to energy demand and hence economic growth in case of Malaysia. The causality analysis highlights that the feedback hypothesis exists between economic growth and energy consumption. While, conservative hypothesis is validated between natural gas consumption and economic growth which implies that economic growth will push natural gas consumption policies in future. This study opens up new direction for policy makers to formulate a comprehensive natural gas policy to sustain environment for long span of time in case to achieve 11th MP targets.


Article

Measuring Output Multipliers of Energy Consumption and Manufacturing Sectors in Malaysia during the Global Financial Crisis

Published in: Procedia Economics and Finance

Nov 10, 2016

Hussain Ali bekhet Tuan Ab Rashid Tuan Abdullah / Tahira Yasmin

The strong relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is widely recognized. Most countries’ energy demand declined during the economic depression known as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–2009. The objective of the current study is to investigate the energy consumption and performance of Malaysia's manufacturing sectors during the GFC. We applied the output multiplier approach, which is based on the input-output model. Two input-output tables of Malaysia covering 2005 and 2010 were used. The results indicate significant changes in the output multipliers of the manufacturing sectors between 2005 and 2010. Moreover, the energy-to-manufacturing sectors’ output multipliers also decreased during the GFC due to a decline in export-oriented industries during the crisis. The increasing importance of the manufacturing sector to the development of Malaysian trade resulted in a noticeable decrease in the consumption of each energy sector's output, especially the electricity and gas sector. Based on the research findings, it is very important to have proper planning in manufacturing sector to reduce high import dependence, shortages of skilled labor, lack of competitiveness and limited indigenous technological capabilities.


Article

Modeling the Structural Changes Sources of the Malaysian Economy: I-O Model

Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research

Oct 15, 2015

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin

The study explores the structural change in intermediate demand and total output for Malaysia economy through the changes in the input coefficient and Leontief inverse matrices for the period 1980 to 2013. Decomposition structural method was utilised to focus on changes in the economic structure with different levels of development over time. The economic structure is decomposed into three initial components (technology, intermediate and total output). The results show a rather remarkable degree of commonality in the patterns of growth processes, with more significant deviations between sectors compared to tables. Nevertheless, most changes within the sectors, and the Malaysian I-O table as a whole, seem to result from changes in the level of the efficiency. Technical relationship seems to have remained relatively unchanged. It seems that the economy has not moved fast enough forward, and does not seem to be oriented by, the type of exports that may sustain a dynamic industrial development, based on external markets.


Article

Evaluation of Global Financial Crisis Effects on Exports and Energy Consumption Patterns in Malaysia: An Input–Output Analysis

Published in: International Economics

Oct 02, 2014

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin

During the last three decades, dependence on foreign trade has increased sharply in Malaysia, causing the Malaysian economy to become increasingly export-oriented. The global financial crisis (GFC) affected Malaysia׳s economic growth tremendously in the fourth quarter of 2008, and policy makers subsequently adopted effective measures to avoid future crises. The government unveiled two stimulus packages; the first—totalling RM7 billion (US$1.9 billion), accounting for 1.04% of the GDP—was launched in November 2008 while the second—totalling RM60 billion (US$16.2 billion), or 9% of the GDP—was launched in March 2009. The objectives of this paper are to (1) discuss the influence of the GFC on Malaysia׳s trade and energy consumption and (2) analyse the effect of the Malaysian government׳s stimulus plans for economic revival using an input–output model. The results indicate that the drop in exports caused by the GFC led to a 13% decrease in GDP and a 16% reduction in energy consumption. The stimulus packages led to 1.83% and 4.64% increases in economic growth and energy consumption, respectively.


Conference Paper

Exploring EKC, trends of growth patterns and air pollutants concentration level in Malaysia: A Nemerow Index Approach

Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Nov 14, 2013

Hussain Ali Bekhet / Tahira Yasmin

The present study examines an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis by analyzing annual data of air pollutants concentartion and per capita GDP as economic indicator over the (1996-2010) period in Malaysia. Nemerow Index Approach (I) used to generate a measures of air pollution.The results show that ambient air quality indicators supports the EKC hypothesis which stated that pollution levels increase as a country develops, but begin to decrease as rising incomes pass beyond a turning point. Also, the I result is justifying that most pollutants are showing value less than 1.