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The study analyzed financial market integration in the five countries of South Asia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri …. But for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka they are of different order. The study used Engle Granger (1987) two step methods to …
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major economies of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are selected from the former region and Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand …
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This paper examines weak form efficiency in the stock markets of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh; and the …. Weak form efficiency is supported by the classical unit root tests, however, it is not strongly supported for Bangladesh …
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This paper develops a framework to analyse the determinants of the long term growth rate of Bangladesh. It is based on … Bangladesh, until the 1990s was primarily due to factor accumulation. Since then, however, TFP has made a small positive … effect. Using our results on the determinants of TFP we examine policy options to double per capita income of Bangladesh in …
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, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1980 to 2003. The analysis is done with the help of tables …
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in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … eight MFIs from Pakistan, six MFIs from Bangladesh and five MFIs from India are at the efficient frontier under variable … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively …
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This paper investigates the effects of a husband’s education, family structure, co-residence with parents or in-laws, and childcare, on labor supply and earnings among married Japanese women between 2000 and 2002. Whereas educated husbands reduce the labor supply of wives, they tend to improve...
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Abstract Using national data from 14 representative developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and its potential as a mechanism for improving the living standards of the rural poor. The analysis suggests that the sector of employment (agricultural or non-agricultural) and...
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Different versions of the South Asian Economic Zone has been discussing in the literature. The basic and important justification behind the formation of South Asian Free Economic Zone is not directly concerned with the economic benefits; it is justified on the basis of cultural and historical...
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The linearity and stationarity of the real exchange rates of India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are investigated using formal linearity and the recently developed nonlinear stationary test procedures. Results obtained show that these real exchange rates are stationary albeit the presence of...
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