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The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re …-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see … whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were in fact justified. An examination of the trends in rural poverty into …
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concludes positive impact of GDP growth rate, foreign direct investment, and exchange rate on private investment in Pakistan …
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This paper investigates relationship between FDI and current account (CA) in Pakistan using the Johansen …
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, China and South Korea has improved in 2008. Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, and India prefer to trade in CFG regionally and have shown … of CCT. India and Pakistan enjoy comparative advantage in CCT trade. Few regions have comparative advantage in Solar …
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Pakistan’s pension system is in the process of increasing funding in anticipation of providing for a growing elderly … financial assets could help a great deal in improving the sustainability of Pakistan pensions by simultaneously increasing … find that international diversification could dramatically help to create sustainability for Pakistan’s main public pension …
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organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such … accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor …
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the position of the poor. Despite this widely held view, detailed research studies have been much more guarded about the impact of MFIs. In particular, several studies have raised...
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This paper examines the current distribution of the agricultural land, the issues causing landlessness in Vietnam, assesses present governmental policies and methods and presents key options. The paper relies on the Vietnam Living Household Standard Survey (VHLSS) that were conducted by the...
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This paper highlights the global economic prosperity and portrays the anatomy of poverty in developing countries. It … analyses the incidence of rural and urban poverty persisting in fourteen countries including India. It address the … contradiction of coexistence of poverty and hyper economic growth in the globe. It is found that the growth elasticity of poverty is …
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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 … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …
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