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| | Article Name : | | Impact of Worker’s Remittances on Poverty
Alleviation in Pakistan | Author Name : | | SARA ASHFAQ1, FARIDULLAH KHAN | Publisher : | | Bridge Center | Article URL : | | | Abstract : | | Workers remittances considered the major and sustainable
source of financial inflow and earning to many developing economies
like Pakistan. Remittances income has momentous and favorable
impacts upon growth rate and put pressure over poverty reduction.
Therefore, the present study has been devised for examine the effects of
worker’s remittances over poverty alleviation in context of Pakistan,
during time span of 1980-2016. Autoregressive Distributive Lagged
approach is employed for obtaining long run and short run results
because of small sample size. The results of long run reveal negative
significant relationship of variables such as worker’s remittances, gross
domestic product and inflation with poverty head count except official
development assistance which holds negative sign but insignificant for
poverty alleviation. On the other hand, short run results reveal negative
significant association of gross domestic product and inflation with
poverty as head count ratio whereas workers’ remittances and official
development assistances hold negative signs although but statistically
insignificant for poverty. The government should design and implement
a policy in a manner from which the remittances may properly utiliz | Keywords : | | Poverty, Worker’s Remittances, Autoregressive
Distributed Lagged Model. |
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