Financial Development, Domestic Savings and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan: Using Cointegration and Granger Causality Analysis

Muhammad Shahbaz (), Talat Afza and Muhammad Shahbaz Shabbir
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Muhammad Shahbaz: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,Lahore, Pakistan
Muhammad Shahbaz Shabbir: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, USA
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International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (IJEER), 2013, vol. 1, issue 5, 59-73

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to explore the association between financial development, domestic savings and poverty in case of Pakistan. The study has employed annual time series data over the period of 1971-2005. The ARDL bounds testing approach has been used for cointegration and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) for the direction of causality for long-and-short runs. Unit root problem is handled by the use of Ng-Perron unit root test. Our results inidacte that feedback effect is found between finnacial development and poverty reduction in the long run but strong cuasality is running from fall in poverty to financial development in the short run. This paper opens up new directions for policy makers to reduce poverty with the help of viberant finacial sector in the country.

Keywords: Financial Development; Poverty; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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