Ramez Ba Deeb

Dr. Badeeb is an associate professor in energy and environmental economics, with a distinguished track record of publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. His research covers critical areas such as climate change, the natural resource curse, energy poverty, and sustainable development. He has successfully integrated these themes into research projects that have gained widespread recognition, earning him prestigious research awards. He is also the Editor of the Economics section of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, a journal published by Springer Nature.

Dr. Badeeb's teaching expertise spans a broad spectrum of subjects within Economics and Finance, including Industrial Economics, Financial Economics, International Finance, Financial Markets, and Sustainability. His ability to provide in-depth, interdisciplinary education across these fields earned him several teaching excellence awards at the University of Nottingham and Curtin University Malaysia.

Previously, he held leadership roles at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and Curtin University Malaysia, where he played a pivotal role in enhancing academic quality and programme development.

Selected Publications in Peer Reviwed Journal:

2025

Okafur, L; Badeeb RA and Khalid U (R&R)  Do the effects of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on energy poverty differ in target economies? (Energy).

Badeeb RA, Khan Z; (2025) Land Productivity and Environmental Sustainability for G7 economies: Does an inverted U-shaped curve exist for Green Finance?  (Land Degradation & Development)

2024

Khan, Z; Badeeb, RA and Zhang, C, (2024). Financial Inclusion and Energy Efficiency: Examining the Role of Green Innovation and Human Capital for Malaysia (Applied Economics)

Zeng Q; Destek M; Badeeb RA, (2024) Green innovation, foreign investment and carbon emissions: a roadmap to sustainable development via green energy and energy efficiency for BRICS economies (International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology)

5Jian Y; Hossain MR; Badeeb RA (2024) Revisiting research and development expenditures and trade adjusted emissions: green innovation and renewable energy R&D role for developed countries ( Journal of Knowledge Economics)

2023

Li M; Badeeb RA; Dogan E; Zhang H (2023) “Ecological footprints and sustainable environmental management: A critical view of China's economy” (Journal of Environmental Management)

Badeeb RA; Khan Z; Wang B; Zhau J (2023) Natural resources extraction and financial inclusion: Linear and non-linear effect of natural resources on financial sector (Resources Policy)

Zheng, Li ; Khan, Z; Badeeb, RA (2023) “How G-7 Countries are Paving the Way for Net-Zero Emission through Energy Efficient Ecosystem? (Energy Economics)

Badeeb, R, A & Sulzyck K and Zahra (2023) “Innovation dynamics in natural resource curse hypothesis? A new perspective from BRICS countries (Resources Policy)

Wong A; Badeeb RA (2023) Financial Inclusion, Poverty, and Income Inequality in ASEAN countries: Does Financial Innovation matter? (Social Indicators Research)

Badeeb, R, A, Clark. J & Philip A (2023) “Modeling the time-varying effects of oil rent on manufacturing: Implications from structural change in an oil based emerging economy.  (Environmental Science and Pollution research )

2022

Khan Z, Badeeb, R, Zhang, C (2022):   International Trade and Emissions Adjusted for Trade: A Road Map for Sustainable Development employing Dynamic ARDL and Kernel-Based Regression”. (Sustainable Development)

Khan Z & Badeeb, R, A (2022):   Natural resources and economic performance: Evaluating the role of political risk and renewable energy consumption”.  (Resources Policy)

Ma, Q,  Badeeb, R, A  &  Khan Z  (2022):   On the sustainable trade development: Do financial inclusion and eco-innovation matter? Evidence from method of moments quantile regression (Sustainable Development)

2021

Badeeb, R, A & Sulzyck K, Lean H,H ( 2021)  Asymmetries in the effect of oil rent shocks on economic growth: A sectoral analysis from the perspective of the oil curse.  (Resources Policy)

Zahra & Badeeb RA (2021) The impact of fiscal decentralization, green energy, and economic policy uncertainty on sustainable environment: a new perspective from ecological footprint in five OECD countries. (Environmental Science and Pollution research)

Earlier

Badeeb, R, A, Lean, H.H., and Shahbaz, M,  (2020) “Are too many natural resources to blame the shape of Environmental Kuznet’s Curve, (Resources Policy)

Badeeb, R, A. and Lean, H.H., (2018) “Asymmetric impact of Oil price on Islamic sectoral Stocks”  (Energy Economics)

Badeeb R, A & Lean H,H, 2017. “Financial development, Oil Dependence and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Republic of Yemen”. (Studies in Economics and Finance )

Badeeb, R, A, Lean, H.H., and Clark, J, 2017 “The Evolution of the Natural Resource Curse Thesis: A Critical Literature Survey “(Resource Policy)

Badeeb, R, A., Lean, H.H., and Smyth, R., 2016 “Oil Curse and Finance-Growth Nexus in Malaysia: The Role of Investment. (Energy Economics)

Awards

• One of the Top 200 young economics researcher in the world (IDEAS: The largest bibliographic  Economics  database https://ideas.repec.org/
• One of the Top Ten economics authors in Malaysia (IDEAS: The largest bibliographic  Economics  database https://ideas.repec.org/
• Nottingham University Business School Teaching Excellence Award, 2024.
• Curtin Malaysia Teaching Excellence Award, 2020, 2021
• Curtin’s 2020 Faculty of Business and Law, Teaching Excellence Award ( Perth, Australia)
• Student’s Choice Award for outstanding teaching performance (Curtin University Malaysia. 2019-2020).
• Excellence Achievement in Journal Publications Award (Universiti Sains Malaysia) (Majlis Persada Kencana- 2018)
• Outstanding Reviewer Award for the contribution made to the quality of Resource Policy Journal (July 2018- Elsevier)
• Excellence Achievement in Journal Publications Award (Universiti Sains Malaysia) (Majlis Persada Kencana- 2017)
• Medal of Excellence as one of the Best Yemeni PhD Graduates in Malaysia awarded by Embassy of Yemen (2017)
• Best Paper Award: The 18th Malaysian Finance Association Annual Conference (MFAC), Melaka, Malaysia, 2016