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 …

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 …

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 …

which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

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 …

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 …

-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reducation in the absesnce of a decline in remittances … explaining the increase in poverty in pakistan. …This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberlisation and a decline in remittances from abroad …