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examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 …Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …
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This paper examines the impact of growth and income inequality on poverty for a panel of five selected South Asian … Association For Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries; namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; over the period … between poverty, growth and income inequality. The estimated long-run elasticities indicates that increase in economic growth …
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. The monotonicity axiom sets out a condition that the proportional reduction in poverty is a monotonically increasing … a ‘poverty equivalent social expenditure rate’, which takes into account both the magnitude of social expenditures … to Pakistan’s unit record household surveys during the periods of 1964–2011 (21 household surveys) and examines the …
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weather data to measure the impact of remittances, both domestic and international, on poverty and human development outcomes … impact of remittances on measures of poverty and malnutrition is also found to be stronger in districts that are affected by … and unfavorable climate. Remittances are found to have a statistically significant impact on many of the indicators, and …
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?; (c) What are the determinants of migration?; (d) What is the impact of remittances on poverty, inequality, and … can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does migration increase per capita income and thereby reduce poverty … development?; and (e) What programs are implemented by the government to increase the benefits from remittances, and what can be …
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overall Pakistan. However, the study used three different poverty measures i.e., household count (HHC), poverty gap (PG) and …The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … rural, urban and national levels. Further, this study evaluates pro-poor growth policies in Pakistan during the period of …
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investment is pro-poor in Pakistan, because, an intensity of income inequality is more than the FDI's poverty reduction at rural …, urban and national levels. Pakistan's investment, poverty and inequality statistics were studied for the first time in terms …The lack of asset accumulation may be one of the major reasons for poverty; consequently, the poor have not been able …
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, the influence of poverty seems relatively the least contribution level for changes in terrorism incidence in Pakistan. …The objective of the study examines the macroeconomic consequences of terrorism in Pakistan. The study evaluates the … variance decomposition, etc. The result reveals that macroeconomic factors, i.e., population growth, price level, poverty and …
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poverty reduction (i.e., headcount ratio) in Pakistan. In order to determine the relationship, this study uses time … financed and monitored accordingly, reduces poverty in Pakistan. In order to reduce poverty, the impact of positive economic … landscape of how health care and education is delivered in the developing countries like Pakistan. This study investigate the …
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This study extended the concept of ‘growth–inequality–poverty (GIP) triangle’ by using the principle component approach … which allows us to composite different poverty and inequality indicators into one single index that contains most of the … among weighted poverty index (which comprises headcount ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap); weighted inequality …
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