The Economics and Finance Letters (EFL) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing research in all areas of economics and finance. The journal provides a platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to exchange insights, promote dialogue, and contribute to the development of knowledge that informs academic debates and policy decisions. EFL encourages innovative, rigorous, and impactful research that addresses contemporary challenges in global, regional, and local contexts.

The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions. Areas of interest include:

• Economic Development: Development policy, foreign aid, formal and informal economies, industrialization, industrial policy, institutions and development, poverty reduction, role of international organizations, rural and regional studies, urban economics, and welfare economics.
• Financial Economics: Central bank policies, currencies, financial crises, financial econometrics, financial engineering, forecasting, intermediation, financial markets and their functioning, corporate finance, regulation and insurance, risk management, inflation, interest rates, monetary systems and policy, macro-financial issues, payment systems, and finance in economic development.
• Growth and Natural Resources: Climate change, empirical growth studies, energy and environment, growth models, productivity, resource policies, renewable resources, technological change, intellectual property rights, and primary markets.
• Health Economics: Health and economic development, inequality, productivity, health behaviour, health care markets, health insurance, public health systems, health policy, pandemics, and regulation of health markets.
• International Trade and Regional Economics: Exchange rate determination and systems, international economic arrangements, factor movement and migration, trade theory and policy, regional integration, regional economic activity, and urban–rural economic dynamics.
• Labour and Education Economics: Education and development, inequality in education, employment, labour productivity, human capital, labour markets, skills and returns on education, wages, retirement policies, and education systems.
• Macroeconomic Theory and Policy: Business cycles, consumption, fiscal and economic policy, income distribution, institutions and macroeconomy, investment, macroeconomic forecasting and modelling, national accounting, production, savings, and unemployment.

By encompassing such diverse themes, The Economics and Finance Letters seeks to foster interdisciplinary engagement and provide a forum for addressing pressing global economic and financial issues.