Formal remittance flows to Pakistan have shown noticeable growth over the past decade. Using bilateral remittance data … suitable to control for unobserved heterogeneity as well as simultaneous bias existing between remittances and migrant's stock …. The main novelty with respect to the existing literature is the use of transaction costs of remittances as a superior …

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 …

inequality in case of Pakistan. The study has been divided into three linkages; one linkage is between financial development … distribution or income inequality, and the last one is between financial development, financial instability and poverty via … empirical evidence confirms the existence of McKinnon Conduit Effect (MCE) in Pakistan. The present study suggests suitable …

The aim of the paper is to explore the association between financial development, domestic savings and poverty in case … of Pakistan. The study has employed annual time series data over the period of 1971-2005. The ARDL bounds testing … found between finnacial development and poverty reduction in the long run but strong cuasality is running from fall in …

foreign inflows on poverty reduction in Pakistan through the channel of health, education and other indicators related to … whole have increased poverty levels in Pakistan. At disaggregated levels, we found that foreign assistance is the major … growth. The importance of foreign inflow in Pakistan is very well acknowledged and documented, however the affect of these …

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 … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

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 note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If … those who send it come from poorer households (semi-skilled and unskilled workers), its impact on poverty would be greater …. Second, that the manner in which remittances are sent, i.e. through legal or illegal channels, also makes a difference in …

This study examines asset accumulation patterns of the recipients of foreign and domestic remittances. Using the …-receiving households depends upon the nature and magnitude of remittances as well as the economic situation and geographical location of … the recipient households. Foreign remittances lead to a substantial increase in household assets while no significant …

This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … Pakistan using Working-Leser framework and propensity score matching. Findings point to differing consumption behaviour across … foreign and domestic recipients. Foreign remittances are considered as fungible and spent in the same way as other sources of …