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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 … th e evidence of panel cointegration between FDI and output. FDI has a positive effect on output in the long run. The … result also supports the evidence of long-run causality running from GDP to FDI, while in the short run, the evidence of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393985
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Current Problems with the IMF and Challenges Ahead – A LatinAmerican Perspective
Frenkel, Roberto - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper examines the current problems with the IMF which include: 1) the institution is no longer fulfilling the functions it used to fulfil, nor is there a clear vision of any new functions for it; 2) due to a drastic pruning of its loan operations, it is not receiving enough revenue to cover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699123
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The Size of Informal Economy in Pakistan
Arby, Muhammad Farooq; Malik, Muhammad Jahanzeb; Hanif, … - eSocialSciences - 2010
variables and use autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model instead of simple OLS and add education as an additional factor …, about 20 percent of the economic transactions are taking place in the informal sector. Key Words: Informal Economy, ARDL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458851
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691809
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725987
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543098
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Financial Development and Velocity of Money in Bangladesh: A Vector Auto- Regression Analysis
Akhtaruzzaman, Md. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980013
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Does Timing of Elections Instigate Riots? A Subnational Study of 16 Indian States, 1958-2004
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - eSocialSciences - 2009
Whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other words, does timing of elections instigate riots? Using time series crosssectional data for 16 major Indian states for the period 1958 – 2004, it is found that scheduled elections are associated with increase in riots
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341745
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The Evolving Dynamics of Global Economic Power in the Post-crisis World: Revelations from a New Index of Government Economic Power
Basu, Kaushik; De, Supriyo; Ghosh, Rangeet; Shweta . - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a manner as possible. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009390659
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The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Huffman, Sonya K; Rizov, Marian - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study integrates theoretical and empirical models to facilitate understanding of human obesity and the factors contributing to rising obesity in Russia during the transition from a planned to a market economy. Recent individual level data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515133