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 …

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 …

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 …

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 investigates the impact of foreign remittances on economic growth of Pakistan. We use secondary time series … foreign remittances have positive and significant relation with GDP of Pakistan while inflation and exchange rate has negative … variables. GDP is taken as dependent variable while foreign remittances, FDI, inflation and exchange rate as independent …

The objective of this study is to investigate whether remittances in Macedonia affect poverty and inequality. Using two … household surveys, one conducted in 2008, one in 2012, we find that remittances reduce both poverty and inequality. The …

international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … earnings under the assumptions of absence of migration and remittances before comparing it to the household income when the …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the … vulnerability of non-poor households are significantly dropped due to remittances. Our findings also suggest that remittance inflows …

In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …