Price Levels and Poverty Nexus: A Case Study of Pakistan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26710/reads.v5i4.915Keywords:
Price Levels, Poverty, Pakistan, ARDLAbstract
The study has examined the relationship between price levels and poverty over the period of 1982-2015 in Pakistan by employing Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL). It is the pioneer empirical study on the topic in Pakistan. The study has revealed mixed findings between the price levels and poverty both at aggregated and disaggregated levels. The study has also suggested policies to reduce poverty according to the various price levels investigated in the assorted models.
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