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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A … composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by … taking into account three different dimensions of infrastructure i.e. transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure …
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This paper has explored the relationship between infrastructure and growth and poverty in the context of the Bangladesh … economy and in this context the paper has used three different techniques. The general conclusion is that infrastructure plays … extremely significant role in promoting growth and alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. The construction of the district …
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Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association …
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Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the … debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the … survey dataset covering the 1993-2009 period, this research investigates the impact of the MLSA on poverty alleviation. The …
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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
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of health infrastructure and current health status for a constituent state of India using principal component method and … indicate strong relation between primary health infrastructure and preventive & curative health achievements. Close relation … situation of a region. Gaps in health infrastructure in the region need to be taken care of to tap the full economic potential …
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Using contemporary models this paper explores the time-series properties of financial infrastructure and economic … financial infrastructure variables are complementary or a substitute for economic performance? and in what way economic growth … infrastructure led economic growth”. Finance is found to be a leading sector only in the short-term link in Granger causality tests …
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During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...
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and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …
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