Income inequality, remittances and economic wellbeing in rural Pakistan: linkages and empirical evidence

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science - Tập 4 Số 2 - Trang 499-519 - 2020
Khadija Shams1,2, Alexander Kadow3,2
1Department of Economics, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, Pakistan
2Department of Economics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
3Department of Economics and Law, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

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