The study plans to accomplish the efforts in bringing together the new dimensions of poverty dynamics in a system that will probe the causal relationship among the energy poverty, income polarization, growth and income poverty. The study is based on the hypotheses; (I) Does energy poverty cause...

The main objective of the present analysis is to explore and quantify the contribution of agricultural exports to economic growth in Pakistan. We have estimated the relationship between Gross domestic product (GDP) and agricultural and non agricultural exports for Pakistan employing Johansen...

Pakistan is an underdeveloped state with strong central government. At present there are three levels of government functioning in Pakistan i.e. the federal, provincial and the local. Due to the competence and distributional aspects, the resource allocation method always remained under...

Foreign Direct Investment is of immense importance for the developing economies of the world in achieving their growth targets. The aim of our study is to find out the factors which are responsible in attracting foreign direct investment. The data, on the variables chosen, is taken from the year...

Fiscal decentralization in south Asian region is taken up as tool to settle economic inefficiencies. The reliance of present study is to locate for the fact that either it is true in case of such economies. To do so, non-stationary panel data analyses was used for the period from 1990 to 2016....