期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
卷 34, 期 3, 页码 1607-1626出版社
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/s41287-021-00435-8
关键词
Population growth; Government expenditures; Foreign remittances inflow; Human development; Sustainable development policy; SDGs; Pakistan; South Asia
资金
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [3.5-DEU-1212362-FLF-P]
- Projekt DEAL
Pakistan is facing short-and long-run relationships between population growth, remittances inflow, and human development, with population growth negatively impacting human development and remittances inflow positively influencing it. Therefore, robust development policies need to be implemented to achieve effective and sustainable human development.
To achieve sustainable future for all, United Nations' (UNs') Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs-2030) reinforced the formulation of social, economic and human development policies. Pakistan is a country with high population growth rate, among top ten recipients of foreign remittances but facing an acute problem of stagnant human development outcomes over the years. Of note, Pakistan's economic growth is considered as growth without human face (see Easterly in The political economy of growth without development: A case study of Pakistan, 2001). It is, therefore, important from public policy point of view to understand the short-and long-run dynamics of the relationships between important social, demographic and economic factors. Accordingly, this paper investigates the short-and long-run relationships between population growth, government social spending, foreign remittances inflow and aggregate level of human development in Pakistan using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach of cointegration and error correction models. The cointegration test results showed that there is cointegration among the variables to proceed with the estimations of long-run relationships. Our empirical results confirm the existence of short-and long-run relationships between population growth, remittances inflow and human development in Pakistan. Population growth inversely while remittances inflow positively influenced Pakistan's human development status both in the short-and long-run. The empirical findings of our study call for designing and implementing robust development policies-that result in effective and sustainable human development-mainly towards viewing population from a more humanitarian and equitable perspective in Pakistan.
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