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Trade, Aid, Remittances And Financial Development: The Case Of Pakistan, Ronald Kumar
Trade, Aid, Remittances And Financial Development: The Case Of Pakistan, Ronald Kumar
Dr Ronald R Kumar
In this paper, we explore the role of trade openness, overseas development aid (ODA), remittance inflows and financial 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 financial development is not statistically significant. In the short run, ODA has contributed positively towards income growth while remittances, trade openness and financial development have lagged negative effects, thus underscoring somewhat different behaviour of aid and remittance inflows. Accordingly, for development policy discourse, we emphasise the …