Pravakar Sahoo
All five South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) have been following consistent economic reform policy measures emphasizing the market economy and aimed at integrating their economies with the rest of the world. Consequently, all except Pakistan have experienced high...
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...
Purna Chandra Parida, Pravakar Sahoo
Abstract In this paper, we attempt to examine the export-led and manufacturing export-led growth hypothesis for four South Asian Countries; namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 1980–2002. In this context we estimate growth ac...
Pradeep Agrawal, Pravakar Sahoo
Savings and growth are often strongly correlated. Thus, it is important to study the determinants of savings and the direction of causality between savings and growth as these have important implications for development policy. Yet, careful empirical studies on savings behavior are missing for Bangl...
Pravakar Sahoo
India's economic relations with its neighbors are important for the stable and peaceful development of the South Asian region and for its own security. In a globalized world, economic relations play a major role in deciding political relations and collaboration at multilateral fora. In the context o...
Pravakar Sahoo
Since 1971, India was the major trading partner of Bangladesh. However, China’s trade with Bangladesh has increased manifold in recent years to surpass India from 2004 onwards. This slowing down and change of economic relations between India and Bangladesh, coupled with strained and uncertain politi...
Pravakar Sahoo, Abirup Bhunia, Sonali Dhankar
Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of transport, energy, and telecommunications networks will enable the region to emerge as a thriving econ...
Ranjan Kumar Dash, Pravakar Sahoo
The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 1980-2005. In this context we develop an index of infrastructure stocks and estimate growth account...
Ranjan Kumar Dash, Pravakar Sahoo, Rupa Chanda
Over the last three decades, South Asian economies have shown a continued upsurge in services exports, contributing to their external sector stability and economic growth. In this context, we examine the role of human capital in boosting services exports and revisit the other determinants of service...
Ranjan Kumar Dash, Pravakar Sahoo, Pradeep Agrawal
Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Further, the direction of causality between savings and growth is of critical importance for development policy. Thus this paper presents individual country analysis of the savings behaviour in five main South A...