This paper explores the impact of two shocks, trade liberalisation policies and decline in remittances, on welfare and … poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has …

in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …

This paper is reflective of an attempt to construct a temporal profile of emigration from Pakistan over the past five … to labour exodus is based on either the censuses of the receiving countries or the registration data of Pakistan. The … themselves. Similarly it is difficult to capture all the financial flows (remittances) associated with emigration. Non official …

Present study is focused to examine the effects of foreign capital flows on domestic investment in Pakistan economy for … investment and foreign capital flow variables. Unidirectional causality running from external debt stock, remittances and …

This note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If …. Second, that the manner in which remittances are sent, i.e. through legal or illegal channels, also makes a difference in …

development vis-à-vis income in Pakistan for the periods 1980-2010 using the bounds procedure within the augmented Solow …-model approach. In the long-run, trade openness, ODA, and remittances have a significant positive effect on the income level, while … while remittances, trade openness and financial development have lagged negative effects. Therefore, understanding that aid …

The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … these objectives can be made operational by examining the characteristics of the labour market in Pakistan. The first part … played a vital if not a decisive role in influencing poverty levels in Pakistan. The second part of the paper reviews the …