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examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 …Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …
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Based on the economic theory of the family, this paper constructs a model of remittances where the migrant, besides …
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This paper empirically examines how financial development influences the impact of remittances on GDP growth volatility … impact of remittances on GDP growth volatility is nonlinear and changes over time and across countries in function of … financial development. More precisely, a high level of financial development helps remittances to have a high stabilizing impact …
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remittances is contributing positively to the development of the financial system of the country. Our results suggest that … remittances have a significant positive effect on financial development. However, financial sector's development is neutral in its … effect on the inflow of remittances. …
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This paper investigates the causality between remittances and financial sector development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA … development, remittances positively influence financial development only in four countries (Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Sudan …) and financial development positively impacts remittances only in Gambia. On the contrary, considering credit to measure …
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growth and poverty reduction in Bangladesh using quarter frequency data over the period of 1975–2011. This issue is of … long-run relationship between financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction exists in Bangladesh. Financial … development helps to reduce poverty, but its effect is not linear. …
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overall Pakistan. However, the study used three different poverty measures i.e., household count (HHC), poverty gap (PG) and …The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … rural, urban and national levels. Further, this study evaluates pro-poor growth policies in Pakistan during the period of …
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investment is pro-poor in Pakistan, because, an intensity of income inequality is more than the FDI's poverty reduction at rural …, urban and national levels. Pakistan's investment, poverty and inequality statistics were studied for the first time in terms …The lack of asset accumulation may be one of the major reasons for poverty; consequently, the poor have not been able …
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We investigate the effect of financial development on economic growth in the context of Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich economy. In doing so, we distinguish between the effects of financial development on the oil and non-oil sectors of the economy. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...
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This paper examines the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth for 21 African countries within a framework which also accounts for international trade. We develop a financial development index based on four different financial development indicators and apply the...
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