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Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Sectoral Analysis

Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Khan, Shujaat Ali - eSocialSciences - 2012

under the framework of Granger causality and panel cointegration for Pakistan over the period 1981-2008. The result supports … result also supports the evidence of long-run causality running from GDP to FDI, while in the short run, the evidence of two …-way causality between FDI and GDP is identified. At the sectoral level, the effects of FDI on growth vary significantly across …

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External Debt and Growth in Developing Countries: A Sensitivity and Causal Analysis

Chowdhury, Abdur R. - eSocialSciences - 2010

The paper aims to enhance the existing literature on the debt-growth nexus by analysing the relationship in two separate country groups using the extreme bounds analysis for sensitivity tests and the mixed, fixed, and random coefficient approach that allows for heterogeneity in the causal...

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The Causal Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Foreign Direct Investment

Gholami, Roghieh; Lee, Sang-Yong Tom; Heshmati, Almas - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical analysis we use data from 23 major countries with...

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The Dynamic Relationship between Price and Trading Volume: Evidence from Indian Stock Market

Kumar, Brajesh; Singh, Priyanka; Pandey, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2010

using VAR, Granger causality, variance decomposition (VD) and impulse response function (IRF) are examined. Mixture of …

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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?

Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...

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Economic and Financial Developments in Goa

Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2011

Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank are outlined. Policy challenges ahead...

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Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future

McGillivray, Mark; Noorbakhsh, Farhad - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper surveys the various composite well-being indices that have been inter-country assessments over the last 40 or soy ears, including the well known Human Development Index (HDI). A number of issues are considered, including the choice of components, component weights, scale equivalence,...

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Three Decades of Human Development across Indian States: Inclusive Growth or Perpetual Disparity?

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Sikdar, Satadru; Chakraborty, … - eSocialSciences - 2014

The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD level have been introduced in India in recent past. However, the HD achievements still vary...

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Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction

Dasgupta, Partha - eSocialSciences - 2012

An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given. National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accounts. Unfortunately though, that ideal cannot be met, at least not in the near future....

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Does Political Competition Influence Human Development? Evidence from the Indian States

Dash, Bharatee Bhushan; Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - eSocialSciences - 2013

Recently, it has been argued that political competition may have similar effects on economic performance as market competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political competition with the Human Development Index (HDI) of the Indian states. [NIPFP]....

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