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-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reducation in the absesnce of a decline in remittances … explaining the increase in poverty in pakistan. …This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberlisation and a decline in remittances from abroad …
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Remittances and financial developments have been an important and overgrowing source in accelerating the growth process … extends the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model by incorporating the remittances and financial developments that has emerged in … financial sector. Theoretical results of steadystate indicate that higher amount of migrant remittances along with financial …
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positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …
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impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this study, we examine the impact on poverty in two … different scenarios (1) labour is homogeneous (2) labour is heterogeneous. The Computable General Equilibrium model for Pakistan … is used to conduct simulations in order to assess the impact of an increase in foreign capital on poverty both in the …
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/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It employs Gini coefficient to measure inequalities …
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This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used …
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of trade and financial liberalisation on economic growth in Pakistan … role in enhancing economic growth in Pakistan in the long-run. However, the short-run responses of the real deposit rate …
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Present study is conducted to measure the impact of financial integration on economic growth in Asian developing economies using panel data of twelve Asian countries from 1984-2012. In first part of analysis, study finds for the direction of causality between financial development and economic...
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poverty, consumption, and investment behaviour of the receiving households. The literature on the impact of remittances on … educational performance, however, is rare, especially in Pakistan. To investigate the impact of remittances on educational …The underlying study intends to show the impact of foreign remittances on the educational performance of children in …
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This paper attempts to document changes in the wage levels of different categories of workers employed in various segments of the labour market during the period 1990-91–2006-07, according to the information given in the labour force surveys. Wage structure can be analysed from different...
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