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The Role of Global Economic Growth in Pakistani Agri-Food Exports

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  • Zahoor Ul Haq

    (Faculty of Arts at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

  • Mohamed Gheblawi

    (Department of Agribusiness and Consumer Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

  • Safdar Muhammad

    (Department of Agribusiness and Consumer Sciences, United Arab Emirates, University, UAE)

Abstract

This analysis uses least squares and Heckman maximum likelihood estimation procedures with fixed effects to explore the role of economic growth in 36 developed and developing economies—categorised as low-, lower-middle-, upper-middle-, and highincome—in explaining their agri-food import of 29 products from Pakistan during 1990 to 2000. We reject the hypothesis that the economic growth of these economies does not influence Pakistani agri-food product exports. However, the estimated income elasticities are statistically elastic only for lower-middle income countries, suggesting that their expenditure on Pakistani agri-food exports will increase disproportionately as their economies grow. Hence, lower-middle-income countries provide good export opportunities for Pakistan’s agri-food products.

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  • Zahoor Ul Haq & Mohamed Gheblawi & Safdar Muhammad, 2011. "The Role of Global Economic Growth in Pakistani Agri-Food Exports," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 50(3), pages 245-256.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:50:y:2011:i:3:p:245-256
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    Keywords

    Economic Growth; Agri-food Trade; Income Elasticities; Developing Countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade

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