The objective of the study is to investigate the link between health care expenditures (HCE), economic growth and health outcomes (i.e., life expectancy (LE), infant mortality and the share of elderly people) for a panel of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries;...

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between unemployment rate and growth rate in selected SAARC countries over the period of 1990-2010. Data is analyzed by panel cointegration technique, Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) for estimating long-run relationship...

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between unemployment rate and growth rate in selected SAARC countries over the period of 1990-2010. Data is analyzed by panel cointegration technique, Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) for estimating long-run relationship...

The objective of the study is to investigate the link between economic growth and financial development (i.e., broad money supply, credit to private sector (CPS) and bank deposit liabilities) in human development for a panel of selected South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)...

The objective of the study is to investigate the multivariate energy consumption function for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries (namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Srilanka), particularly, economic growth (GDP), relative prices of energy (REP),...

I compare the two alternative paradigms of business cycles for the case of the Romanian eThis paper examines the validity of fiscal theory of price level in the five selected SAARC countries, namely Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by using panel data analysis for the period...

Value added tax (VAT) is considered as the reform tax system of the 21st century, which has been implemented popularly in more than 135 countries in the world. In SAARC region, Pakistan was the first adaptor of VAT. It implemented VAT in 1990. The basic objective of the study is to quantify the...

The objective of the study is to investigate the most promising economic variables i.e., foreign direct investment (FDI), exports and financial development on economic growth in selected South Asian Association of Regional Co-corporation (SAARC) countries. In addition, this study argued that...

The objective of the study is to investigate the short-run and long-run causality relationship among energy (electricity production from renewable sources), carbon dioxide emissions, natural resource depletion, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and poverty in selected SAARC countries, namely,...