Rice is an important source for foreign exchange earnings for Pakistan's economy, keeping this fact in mind, this study is to calculate competitiveness of rice export of Pakistan in the international market compared to largest exporter countries and this article is the first empirical attempt...

This doctoral thesis explores the impact of socioeconomic behaviour and foreign policy changes by international law on economic growth factors. The study investigates the ways in which changes in socioeconomic behaviour and foreign policy can affect economic growth, and the role that...

Climate change has become a pressing issue that requires comprehensive and scientific understanding of its impact on the economy. Policymakers seek answers to the questions of how climate change affects economic growth, inflation, and the financial system. To design targeted policies, it is...

The objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of inflation targeting tools, which can aid in the development of effective inflation targeting policies in the context of global trends exposure. The current paradigm of sustainable economic development is being challenged by the...

Output drops are usually associated with major disruption for the residents of affected countries, both directly and often through ensuing, prolonged growth slowdowns. Using a century of data, we document that output drops are more frequent in countries at a lower stage of economic development....

For the development of a country, its financial and economic backbone must be strong. This is especially true in the case of developing countries, who attach great importance to financial sector development and deepening in the pursuit of their poverty reduction goal. The financial sector...

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering offinancial market integration,may yield important long-run effects related to increasedcompetition. The relationshipsformalized here link...

We explore dynamic linkages between financial/banking sector openness, financial sector competition, and growth. We first develop an analytical model, highlighting links between long-run economic performance and services trade, through scale economies and market and cost structures in the...

Long-run cross-country price data exhibit a puzzle. Today, richer countries exhibit higher price levels than poorer countries, a stylized fact usually attributed to the Balassa- Samuelson effect. But looking back fifty years, this effect virtually disappears from the data. What is often assumed...