Impact of Unemployment and Governance on Poverty in Pakistan: A Fresh Insight from Non-linear ARDL Co-integration Approach

Meo, Muhammad Saeed; Kumar, Bezon; Chughtai, Sumayya; Khan, Vina Javed; Dost, Muhammad Khyzer Bin; Nisar, Qasim Ali

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“…This weightage also declined up to a level at which the explanatory power of private investment for the forecast error in the unemployment rate can reach 1.34% in the 9 th period. Meo et al (2020) gave a fresh idea about the non-linear relationship between unemployment, governance, and poverty in Pakistan. The data were taken from 1984-2016 by applying the non-linear ARDL co-integration test.…”

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Determinants of Unemployment in Selected Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

Siddiqa

2021

J. Econ. Impact

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This research gives a new glimpse on determinants of unemployment in developing countries. Unemployment is not only a burning issue in developing countries but also in developed countries, but in this study, the case is related to developing countries. For this purpose data of ten selected developing countries has been taken for the period of 2000 to 2019 from the World Bank. Stationarity has been checked through the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test and the result showed that all variables were stationary at 1st difference except the variable of inflation. The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model has been applied and results show that all variables are statistically significant. GDP, inflation, remittances, exchange rate, and expenditure on education has a negative impact on unemployment while population and external debt has a positive impact on unemployment. Policy recommendations are that if developing economies want to reduce unemployment they have to control population, remove deficit in the balance of payment, control the inflation rate, raise their GDP, earn the exchange rate due to increase in exports, and gain the foreign remittance and have to allocate the more budget on expenditure on education. In light of these recommendations, all economies can achieve economic efficiency and economic development.

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Determinants of Unemployment in Selected Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

Siddiqa

2021

J. Econ. Impact

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“…The findings related to disaggregated price levels on both absolute and relative poverty were found mixed. Afterward, Meo et al [12] used the NARDL approach on a sample from 1984 to 2016 for Pakistan and found asymmetric relation between poverty and its determinants like unemployment and governance. The study further disclosed that the positive changes in unemployment and governance had more significant impacts on poverty than negative changes in unemployment and governance.…”

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Investment Portfolio, Democratic Accountability, Poverty and Income Inequality Nexus in Pakistan: A Way to Social Sustainability

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Institutions help to streamline the economic activity-related procedures, where government intervention might be involved. Institutions also play a significant role in social sustainability. The findings using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach to cointegration for the period from 1984–2019 reveal that investment portfolio and democratic accountability reduce poverty in Pakistan both in the long and short run. Moreover, democratic accountability helps to reduce income inequality, but the investment portfolio’s role is not significant. The literacy rate helps to reduce income inequality, and inflation increases poverty and income inequality. The remittances increase income inequality, and urbanization increases poverty. To eradicate poverty and income inequality, the governments should be accountable for their actions to the general public while they remain in power. If they do not deliver as per their manifestoes, they will not be reelected in the next election. Moreover, there is a dire need to redefine the role of an investment portfolio to reduce the risk of investment. So, investments would increase economic activities and could reduce poverty and income inequality. This study contributes to the literature by inquiring about the role of the investment portfolio and democratic accountability in social sustainability by reducing poverty and income inequality. This study only considers Pakistan’s economy due to limitations of poverty data availability in other countries. The scope could further be broadened by accessing data for a wider Asia region to test the role of the investment portfolio and democratic accountability to reduce poverty and income inequality.

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“…The training program is also based on industry needs to equip graduates (Hofmann et al, 2021;Nopiah et al, 2018). Training participants are expected to have competence after attending the training so that they are able to compete and enter the world of work (García-Castilla et al, 2019;Meo et al, 2020).…”

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Implementation of the Education and Training Program seen from the CIPPO Perspective

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Sudira

et al. 2021

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The government's role as a facilitator offers Competency-Based Training (CBT) programs to overcome these problems. This program is held to answer the needs of the community to develop themselves to master certain competencies to be absorbed in the industry. This study aims to evaluate the achievement of the implementation of training programs at UPT BLK Surabaya and to provide recommendations for the next training program. This research is evaluation research using the CIPPO (context, input, process, product, and outcome) model. The research instrument is a questionnaire validated through expert judgment, and given to two groups of respondents: the training participants and instructors. The research respondents were 199 consisting of 180 training participants, 19 instructors. The research findings are as follows. (1) The context aspect, which is the suitability of the program with the objectives of the institution, the needs of the community and industry, was stated good by the participants and very good by instructors and supported by the completeness of legal basic documents and the characteristics of the training program. (2) The input aspect, which is infrastructure, selection process, instructors competence, curriculum, and funds were stated well by the participants and very good by instructors. (3) The process aspects, which are planning, implementation, and supervision, are in accordance with the SOP applied by the government. The implementation of the training program was stated well by the participants and very good the instructors. (4) The product aspect, which is the competence of the participants, was stated very well by participants and instructors. (5) In the aspect of outcome, the percentage of the absorption rate of graduates in the business sector and industrial sector is 37%. The recommendation to the aspect of infrastructure is to increase the number and cleanliness of bathrooms.

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Impact of Unemployment and Governance on Poverty in Pakistan: A Fresh Insight from Non-linear ARDL Co-integration Approach

Cited by 31 publications

References 62 publications

Determinants of Unemployment in Selected Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

Determinants of Unemployment in Selected Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

Investment Portfolio, Democratic Accountability, Poverty and Income Inequality Nexus in Pakistan: A Way to Social Sustainability

Implementation of the Education and Training Program seen from the CIPPO Perspective

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