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This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan … significant impact on aggregate poverty and income inequality in Pakistan in short-run. In long run, trade liberalization has some … strong effects on poverty and inequality. Nevertheless, other control variables - foreign remittances and gross capital …
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, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …
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This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examines how the broader institutional environment prevailing in developing countries like the Philippines may affect the institutional arrangements for...
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In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … further add to the already difficult work of reducing poverty. The MDG deadline looms ahead and time is running out in the …
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This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income … poverty reduction in all areas not because of the improvement in household income, but because of the drop in consumer prices …
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-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty … has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the …
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and financial development. Therefore, regulating and redirecting remittances toward environmental sustainability will …
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enhances human capital development in Pakistan. Similarly, the inflow of remittances increases human capital development.On the …The present paper studies the effects of financial development on the human capital development of Pakistan. An annual … present paper recommend some useful insights for the policymakers of Pakistan. …
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volatility is increased by trade openness and inflation, but remittances have a mixed effect. In order to benefit from financial …
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The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …
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