Natural gas is a dominant fuel in Pakistan. It offers the cheapest and a cleaner alternative source of energy. This paper examines the relationship of natural gas consumption and economic growth in Pakistan. We include capital, labor and exports in the model with multivariate framework. The ARDL...

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between coal consumption, economic growth, trade openness and CO2 emissions in case of India. In doing so, Narayan and Popp, Journal of Applied Statistics 2010; 37:1425–1438, structural break unit test is applied to test the order of integration of...

: This study analyzes the effect of Foreign Capital Inflow (FCI) on the economic growth of a developing economy, like Pakistan. Empirical analysis has been performed by using a recent cointegration technique, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. The result shows that foreign direct...

: The main idea of this present effort is to analyze the long-run relationship between Pakistan s exports and imports by employing advanced techniques like Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique, and to study the short-run dynamics through Granger causality in the VECM framework. The...

Stable macroeconomic condition is the prerequisite for sound and healthy performance of the financial sector in the country. The study explores the impact of macroeconomic environment on financial sector’s performance in Pakistan. In doing so, it employs the Fully Modified Ordinary Least...

This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the relationship between financial development, economic growth and trade openness in case of Bangladesh over the period 1975Q1-2011Q4. The ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegtaion and the innovative accounting approach for causality are...

This paper examines the impact of natural gas consumption, real gross fixed capital formation and trade on the real GDP in the case of Tunisia over the period 1980-2010. We use an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to test the existence of a longterm relationship...

The study is aim to explore the existence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in case of Thailand over the period of 1971-2010. The EKC relationship posits that as economy grows, measured by per capita income, at the initial stage energy pollutants increase; but starts falling after a certain...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, both in linear and non‐linear specifications. Design/methodology/approach – The paper has employed annual time series data over the period of 1971 up to 2005....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial development on the rural‐urban income inequality in India using annual data from 1965 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – The Ng‐Perron unit root test is utilised to check for the order of integration of the...