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Workers' remittances and import demand in Pakistan

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Workers' remittances and import demand in Pakistan
 
Creator Zaman, Khair-uz; Economics, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
Imrani, Nazakat Ali; Department of Commerce and Business Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
 
Subject overseas workers; remittances; import function; Pakistan
 
Description Using quarterly data for the period 1975-2004, this paper estimates import functions for Pakistan both at the aggregate and disaggregated levels. Findings show that remittances do have a significant impact on the demand for imports in the aggregate equation, with the elasticity for remittances being 0.15, and 0.70 for domestically generated income, in the long run (natural logarithm). Remittances, however, have no impact on the demand for imported consumer goods; their impact on the import of raw materials and capital goods are greater than that of domestically generated income. JEL classification: F2
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2005-12-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/207
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 42, No 2 (2005)
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/207/593
 
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