Robin Boadway, Michael Keen
Abu Siddique, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Abstract In many developing countries, remittance payments from migrant workers are increasingly becoming a significant source of export income. This article investigates the causal link between remittances and economic growth in three countries, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, by employing the Gra...
Imam M. Alam, Rahim Quazi
While Bangladesh remains steeped in staggering external debt, it is also concurrently witnessing a substantial outflow of domestic capital. This situation raises serious policy concerns for its development prospects. This paper applies the Bounds testing and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag proced...
Martin Ravallion
Welfare distributional effects in a food producing economy of changes in the relative price of food are analyzed, allowing for labor market responses. Conditions for signing the welfare effects are derived for a stylized agricultural household and are tested for Bangladesh. Point estimates suggest t...
Syed Akther, Hirofumi Fukuyama, William Weber
Wayne R. Thirsk
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Tax Reform in Developing CountriesAuthors/Editors: Wayne ThirskWayne Thirskhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3999-0SectionsAboutPDF (1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The eight case-study c...
Kazi Sohag, Md Al Mamun, Gazi Salah Uddin, Ali Ahmed
Middle-income countries are currently undergoing massive structural changes towards more industrialized economies. In this paper, we carefully examine the impact of these transformations on the environmental quality of middle-income countries. Specifically, we examine the role of sector value additi...
Pravakar Sahoo, Ranjan Kumar Dash
We examine the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka using panel cointegration techniques for the period 1980–2005. In this context, we develop an index of infrastructure stocks and investigate the impact of infrastructure...
Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Yoke‐Kee Eng
Abstract This paper examines the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth of the Asian developing countries from a panel data perspective and uses the system GMM technique developed by Arellano & Bover (1995) Arellano, M. and Bover, O. 1995. Another look at the instrumen...
Cem Işık, Serdar Ongan, Hasibul Islam, Gul Jabeen et al.
Abstract Asia–Pacific countries are experiencing rapid economic growth. Is this growth ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors‐based and aligned growth? Therefore, this study investigates the connections between ESG indicators and economic growth in East Asia Pacific and South Asia. To a...
Nasim Shah Shirazi, Turkhan Ali Abdul Manap
This paper examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for five South Asian countries through cointegration and multivariate Granger causality tests. Strong support for a long-run relationship among exports, imports, and real output for all the countries except Sri Lanka were found. Feedback eff...
M. Shakir Hussain, Mahfuzul Haque
The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) analysis shows that there is a long-term relationship between...
Mansor H. Ibrahim
The present paper analyzes the effects of monetary policy shocks on aggregate and eight sectoral outputs for Malaysia using vector autoregressive models. In line with many existing studies on Malaysia, the results are supportive of the real effects of monetary policy shocks. More importantly, we fin...
Van Bon Nguyen
A sustained high growth rate of gross domestic product at a low inflation is one of the main goals of the majority of macroeconomic policies, so keeping the price stability plays an important role in determining the growth rate of output. This paper empirically investigates effects of fiscal deficit...
Jad Chaaban, Wendy Cunningham
Although girls are approximately half \n the youth population in developing countries, they \n contribute less than their potential to the economy. The \n objective of this paper is to quantify the opportunity cost \n of girls' exclusion from productive employment with the \n hop...