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...
Md. Samsul Alam, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
The garment industry is considered as one of the driving forces of socio-economic development of Bangladesh due to its significant contribution to the country's exports, employment generation, and poverty alleviation. This study investigates the determinants of the Bangladesh garment exports in the ...
Md. Samsul Alam, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan, Md. Moazzem Hossain
Abstract The apparel industry contributes significantly to the economic development of many developing countries. Between 1974 and 2004, the Multifiber Arrangement ( MFA ) heavily regulated this industry. Since the total abolition of the MFA in 2005, competition in apparel trade has increased many f...
Ripon Kumar Mondal, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Evidence from the rural livelihood literature shows that farm households in developing countries engage in nonfarm employment to supplement their household income. This raises the question of whether nonfarm income complements or competes with agricultural production due to a possible shift in farm ...
Navaratnam Ravinthirakumaran, Saroja Selvanathan, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan
Twin deficits hypothesis postulates that there is a strong positive linear relationship between a country's budget deficit and its current account deficit. This paper empirically investigates the existence of this relationship in five South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countrie...
Abu Siddique, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
In many developing countries, remittance payments from migrant workers are increasingly becoming a significant source of export income. This paper investigates the causal link between remittances and economic growth in three countries, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, by employing the Granger causal...
Md. Samsul Alam, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan, Moazzem Hossain
Apparel exports make a significant contribution to economic growth in major apparel exporting economies such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between apparel export growth and its determinants such as GDP growth, infrastructure, financial d...
Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Maneka Jayasinghe, Md. Moazzem Hossain, Saroja Selvanathan
Syed Ali Abbas, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 on remittance flows to South Asia.Using a monthly panel data set of five South Asian countries (namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) for the period January 2020 to August 2021.This study, applying the pooled ordinary least square es...
S A Abbas, Saroja Selvanathan, S Selvanathan
This chapter addresses the issues of remittances, foreign aid, and economic growth of Bangladesh. In many developing countries, including Bangladesh, remittance inflows from emigrants and migrant workers and foreign aid play a significant role in their economic development. In terms of remittance fl...
Bounlert Anittaphommahaxay, Vanhnalat, N Balamurali, C Bogahawatte et al.
The economic growth depicts prosperity and self sustainability of nation. Foreign Direct Investment considered as handful tool for growth of host nation is a general perception all over the globe. Now due to global webbed market, countries worldwide are anxious to exploit Asia-Pacific’s huge market ...
Ripon Kumar Mondal, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan, Moazzem Hossain
Within contemporary global food security discourse, the difference in food security issues between rural and urban households has received scant attention. Since urban and rural livelihoods and lifestyles are different, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security between rural and urban h...
Saroja Selvanathan, Maneka Jayasinghe, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan
During the last three decades, Bangladesh has experienced substantial economic growth. Many argue that manufacturing exports are the new engine of economic growth in Bangladesh. Some studies also show empirical evidence for both export-led growth and growth-led exports in Bangladesh. However, the po...
Syed Ali Abbas, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Abstract The recent literature evidences the non-linear and asymmetric effects of exchange rates and financial development. This study examines the asymmetric effects of exchange rates and financial development on remittance inflows in South Asia. Employing the Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed ...
Saroja Selvanathan, Maneka Jayasinghe, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan
During the last three decades, South and Southeast Asian countries have experienced remarkable improvement in many economic and human development indicators. This chapter investigates the achievements of South and Southeast Asian countries in meeting Millennium Development Goals during the period 20...