Economic Growth and Inflow of Remittances: Do They Combat Poverty in an Emerging Economy?

Saqlain Latif Satti; Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Fozia Hayat; Sudharshan Reddy Paramati

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1003-9

Economic Growth and Inflow of Remittances: Do They Combat Poverty in an Emerging Economy?

Saqlain Latif Satti
, Muhammad Shahid Hassan
, Fozia Hayat
, Sudharshan Reddy Paramati

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Abstract

Poverty is such a social problem which itself begets so many socio-economic evils in a country. It never lets the government of a country to sit easy and focus on some other issues. Almost all countries who are running through this lurch; at there, governments, policy advisors and researchers are always busy in formulating strategies to combat poverty. Therefore; feeling the significance of the topic, this study is designed to empirically test the impact of economic growth, workers remittances, rural population and literacy rate on poverty in Pakistan. The empirical findings of the study reveal that economic growth; workers' remittances and rural population significantly deteriorate poverty. Moreover; it has found that there exists bidirectional causality between economic growth and poverty and between workers’ remittances and poverty in Pakistan.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1119-1134
Number of pages	16
Journal	Social Indicators Research
Volume	127
Issue number	3
Early online date	17 Jun 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1003-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Economic growth
Pakistan
Poverty
Remittances

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
General Social Sciences

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