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poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …
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in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …
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This note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If … those who send it come from poorer households (semi-skilled and unskilled workers), its impact on poverty would be greater …. Second, that the manner in which remittances are sent, i.e. through legal or illegal channels, also makes a difference in …
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international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … earnings under the assumptions of absence of migration and remittances before comparing it to the household income when the …
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In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the … vulnerability of non-poor households are significantly dropped due to remittances. Our findings also suggest that remittance inflows …
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In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …
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The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...
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The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
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In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial sector competition, we contribute at the same time to the macroeconomic literature on measuring financial development and respond to the growing field of economic development...
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burgeoning trends in mobile phone penetration, KE and poverty. Hence, the IFS definition has incontrovertibly fought its final …
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