Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the contending role of important external inflows on the economic growth of Pakistan economy. The main purpose behind focusing on Pakistan is that it is receiving significant inflows from different international sources such as International...

Purpose: The African region has experienced relatively lower economic growth and higher outflow of migration over the years. The purpose of this research paper, therefore, is to focus on the African region to investigate whether or not there is any link between the poor economic growth and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential impact of trade openness on economic growth for the economy of Brunei Darussalam. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical analyses are conducted using the autoregressive distributed lagged model (ARDL) procedure and the data used...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate the contingency effect of natural resource abundance on the foreign direct investment (FDI)–growth relationship in a nonlinear (threshold) model. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use the fixed effect threshold model for panel data with...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of country- and firm-specific factors on foreign investment in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses time-series data for country-level determinants and uses panel data for 100 listed non-financial companies selected...

Purpose: This study aims to test a moderated mediation model for a twofold purpose. First, to examine the mediating role of financial capability (FC) in the association between financial literacy (FL) and financial well-being (FW). Second, to analyze if non-impulsive future-oriented behavior...

Purpose: Environmental degradation is recognized as a serious problem globally, and hence, Saudi Arabia is no exception. This paper aims to focus on the economy of Saudi Arabia to identify the determinants of environmental degradation. Design/methodology/approach: Time series data spanning from...