Muhammad Atif Nawaz

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• Ph.D. Economics
• Associate Professor at Islamia University of Bahawalpur

The role of blue economy and green economy factors in economic growth is promising and multifaceted. Pakistan has enormous potential for maritime and green economy factors; however, not enough attention has been given to the role of green and maritime practices in the economic growth in Pakistan. Therefore, to fill this significant literature gap,...

The digital transformation within public administration is fundamental to improving government effectiveness levels. The study employs CS-ARDL analysis to evaluate the relationship between e-government development and governance indicators (control of corruption, e-government, rule of law, regulatory quality, and voice and accountability) concernin...

This study investigates the causes of deforestation using panel data for top deforested countries from 1995 to 2022. We apply Panel Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) technique. The findings affirm that urbanization and water stress has negative and significant effect on deforestation and unemployment and agricultural exports have positive and signifi...

The current study empirically probes into the role of economic complexity and green technologies on environmental degradation under STIRPAT framework in world’s top polluting countries over 2000 to 2020 period. To empirically analyze the relationships, Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) estimation technique is used because of the existenc...

Women’s freedom to make social, political and economic choices for their wellbeing regarded as women empowerment. Women have fewer opportunities to participate in social, political, and economic spheres in general, and developing economies in particular. Reducing gender inequality is the 5th United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The st...

This paper examines the effects of tourism receipts and governance on economic growth in a panel of 103 countries. The short-run results of the Cross-Sectional Autoregressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL) model, indicate that labour force and fixed capital positively impact on economic growth, highlighting the significance of investing in infrastructur...

This paper aims to briefly explain the factors contributing to economic growth, particularly emerging and developing economies, emphasizing the impacts of secure property rights. Tangible and intangible assets such as land and minerals, patents and copyrights offer the investors legal recognition that enhances investment, inventive activities and e...

Climate change is a trending issue all over the world, and it is important to protect the environment to save future generations. Our positive intention towards pro-environmental behavior causes a significant outcome in reducing environmental degradation. At the same time, irresponsible behavior leaves serious consequences for natural resources in...

Whether mineral and natural resources (NR) are a blessing or a curse for economic growth (ECON_G) is still a debatable issue among scholars and policymakers. Therefore, the primary goal of the present study is to investigate the relationship between mineral resources (MR), NR, and ECON_G to re‐assess the “Resource Curse Theory.” For this purpose, a...

Child malnutrition is one of the major causes of child morbidity and mortality around the globe especially in developing countries. The current study attempts to investigate the factors that contribute to malnutrition captured through WAZ (weight for age) among children in the Cholistan desert area of Punjab, Pakistan. Out of 900 households surveye...

It has been clearly shown that despite having an abundance of natural resources, several resource‐rich countries have experienced slower economic growth that makes it challenging for them to use these resources as a driver of growth. The relationship between economic growth and natural resources has remained an issue of debate over the decades. How...

In today's global landscape, it is crucial to have a comprehensive understanding of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in developing nations such as Pakistan. This knowledge is vital in informing effective policymaking and promoting sustainable development. This study investigates the impact of renewable energy (RE) on environmental degradation in Paki...

Investment in women is the smart thing to do. Pakistan has to meet SDGs till 2030, among which the 5th goal is empowering women and gender equality. We have to find the correlates that affects the empowerment of a woman to empower them. For this purpose, the current study was designed. A large sample of 12339 married women aged between 15 to 49 yea...

By employing data from the world values survey to analyze Pakistan’s determinants of happiness, the new study has expanded our understanding of happiness.The current analysis focused on the seventh wave of data that was looked at for Pakistan between 2017 and 2020. The entire sample size is roughly 1995 people, and a range of sociodemographic and e...

Making a better estimate of Inflation can enable us to make a better guesstimate about its economic repercussions. In modern monetary economics, the standard Phillips Curve model (PCM), the New Keynesian Phillips curve model (NPCM), and the incomplete competition model (ICM) are the alternative econometric models specified to forecast Inflation. Th...

The present study aims at investigating the linkage of Socioeconomic Status, Perceived Susceptibility, Perceived Protection benefits and Perceived severity on Willingness to vaccination of COVID-19. For that purpose, primary data of 395 respondents have been collected through questionnaire approach from Pakistani travelers. Partial Least Squares (P...

This current study examines the impact of renewable energy consumption, agriculture, and globalization on carbon emissions in India over the period from 1980 to 2018. For long-run estimates, we apply Gregory-Hansen's co-integration test, bootstrap ARDL approaches, fully modified ordinary least squares, and dynamic OLS. The empirical results of long...

Family planning is essential for sustainable development, particularly for a lower middle income country like Pakistan, the fifth most densely inhabited country in the world. Women's empowerment leads to a dynamic role in family planning decisions. Based on the data of PDHS 2017-18 and by taking a sample of 12339 married women, this study aims to e...

Although economic growth, globalization, and ecological footprint are extensively researched altogether, however, the literature on the role of financial inclusion, ecological innovation along with growth and globalization is still limited specifically in the context of MENA region. Thereby, The study aims to scrutinize the dynamic association betw...

Based on the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2017-18 data, the study intends to present the relative status of a particular fuel (type) in terms of its level of use in different regions of Pakistan. At the same time, the study investigates the determinants of the household type of fuel used for cooking in Pakistan. Socioeconomic chara...

The precise objective of the research is to empirically analyze the interdependence between military expenditure, income inequality and economic growth in 51 developing nations. For this purpose, study is used aggregate and disaggregate data analysis of developing countries on the basis of democracy. To tackle the endogeneity between the variables,...

The precise objective of the research is to empirically analyze the interdependence between military expenditure, income inequality and economic growth in 51 developing nations. For this purpose, study is used aggregate and disaggregate data analysis of developing countries on the basis of democracy. To tackle the endogeneity between the variables,...

Purpose: Governments rely on taxes, but a high tax rate can slow economic growth. Fiscal policy objectives can be achieved most effectively by lowering tax collection costs and boosting economic growth through efficient taxation. This study aims to find the impact of tax revenue on Pakistan's economic growth. Design/Methodology/Approach: The time s...

Purpose: Governments rely on taxes, but a high tax rate can slow economic growth. Fiscal policy objectives can be achieved most effectively by lowering tax collection costs and boosting economic growth through efficient taxation. This study aims to find the impact of tax revenue on Pakistan's economic growth. Design/Methodology/Approach: The time s...

Considering that one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to promote education, in this regard, remittances have been suggested as a preferred motivator, especially in developing nations. In recent decades, migration from underdeveloped to developed countries has grown, which benefits the country economically and socially. Although, liter...

Tourism is influenced by a wide range of factors and forces including exogenous ones that have no direct link to the tourism industry. Terrorism and natural disasters are two examples of such factors. Individuals, organizations and culture, all are affected by them. This study analyzes the impact of natural disasters and terrorism on tourism growth...

Employment, gender equality, and women's empowerment can boost tourism's sustainability. The tourism business is dominated by women, but it still has a lot of serious imbalances. To identify solutions, it's important to study women's empowerment research. This article examines how academic research addresses women's empowerment in tourism. Systemat...

This paper adds to the existing body of knowledge by incorporating the role of fiscal decentralization (FD) in influencing CO2 emissions. Therefore, this study looked at the effect of FD on CO2 emissions in the presence of nonrenewable energy consumption (NRE), renewable energy consumption (REN), gross domestic product (GDP), and trade openness (TO...

Over the last three decades, the world has been facing the phenomenon of the ecological deficit as the ecological footprint is continuously rising due to the persistent decline of the per-capita bio-capacity. Moreover, there is a substantial increase in globalization and electricity consumption for the same period, and transportation is contributin...

Poverty alleviation has been a major concern of governments and international institutions in developing countries over the past few decades. In Pakistan, government and international organizations have implemented several economic reforms in the country to mitigate poverty and improve the living standards of the masses. Present study investigates...

This study aims to investigate the linkage among tourism, foreign direct investment (FDI), environmental degradation by carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and economic growth in five countries from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over 1995–2018. The outcomes of pooled mean group (PMG) estimator reveal that inward FDI and international...

The present study estimates the impact of natural resources, eco-innovations and economic growth on CO2 emissions in Pakistan over 1990-2019 period. For empirical estimation, Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) and Granger Causality Analysis, Variance Decomposition Analysis and Impulse Response Function are applied after checking the stationarity pro...

Southeast Asian countries have seen substantial economic growth over the years, but they have not been able to maintain environmental quality at the same time. Non-renewable sources constitute a significant proportion of energy consumption in the ASEAN which can have repercussions for long-term sustainable development. While the impacts of energy c...

Around the globe, all developing and developed economies focus on renewable energy sources for clean and sustainable economic growth and aim to decrease carbon emission to improve the climatic condition. This study aims to evaluate the feasible renewable energy source in Pakistan and study the criteria based on the investigation of wind energy, bio...

Over recent years, there was a substantial rise globally in the importance of the environmental agenda for SMEs. The customer becomes now conscious of their consumer choices' environmental consequences. This research has also identified obstacles to introducing green business activities in small- and medium-sized enterprises and increase sustainabl...

For the last two decades, environmental degradation has become the most serious concern at multiple levels and has gained special attention of literature and policymakers. Strict implementation of the evidence-based policy solutions could serve as a regulatory tool to gradually overcome this issue. The current study examines the role of environment...

Sustainable development is now a mantra for which every country is striving for it and green finance, and green financial development which is advancement in financial activities harmonized with environmental protection and ecological balance, is considered as the foremost solution for it. Keeping in view the importance of green financial developme...

Sustainable development is now a mantra for which every country is striving for it and green finance, and green financial development which is advancement in financial activities harmonized with environmental protection and ecological balance, is considered as the foremost solution for it. Keeping in view the importance of green financial developme...

This study intends to analyze the impact of governance (such as political, economic and institutional governance) on real output (GDP) and foreign direct investment (FDI) in 26 Asian countries during 1996 – 2019. Results of panel ARDL show the positive impact of capital, labor and trade openness on GDP and FDI. Institutional governance affects GDP...

Environment degradation is a very important issue in developing nations and a lot of research had done to examine the factors of environmental degradation but these studies were missed some important factors which are covered by this study. By examining the effect of economic growth and energy in the presence of renewable energy consumption and tec...

Globally, the interaction and vulnerability of tourism and climate change have recently been in focus. This study examines how carbon dioxide emissions respond to changes in the tourism development. Panel data from 2000 to 2017 for 70 countries are analyzed using spatial econometric method to investigate the spatial spillover effect of tourism deve...

The volatility of fossil fuel and their increased consumption have exacerbated the socio-economic dilemma along with electricity expenses in third world countries around the world, Pakistan in particular. In this research, we study the output of renewable hydrogen from natural sources like wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal power. It also provide...

The major purpose of this study is to assess racial disparity and energy poverty index by measuring energy poverty index by using data envelopment analysis and regression equation from South Asia (2001–2018). An energy poverty index is quantifying the size and scope of energy poverty, and DEA is used to investigate the relevance of socioeconomic po...

Environmental degradation is the most prominent area nowadays, especially in developing counties where high renewable energy consumption and population growth deteriorate the atmosphere of the country. Thus, the current study investigates the nexus among renewable energy consumption, economic growth (EG), population growth, foreign direct investmen...

The aim linked with the ongoing article is to examine the influence of geography, information management system (IMS), and application of geographic information system on tourism planning in Pakistan. The goals of the ongoing research also include the investigation of the mediating impact of an institutional factor among the nexus of geography, IMS...

Remaining paper is constructed as follows: Section two explains the electricity background in Sindh province, and Sect. 3 describes methodology with data sources.

Environmental degradation is significantly studied both in the past and the current literature; however, steps towards reducing the environmental pollution in carbon emission and haze pollution like PM2.5 are not under rational attention. This study tries to cover this gap while considering the carbon emission and PM2.5 through observing the role o...

Solar power is a promising alternative energy source for a sustainable environment for developing countries in the Asian continent. The assessment of its sustainability particularly in the South Asian countries necessitates a complete and rigorous statistical investigation. In the current study, we investigate solar energy profile and potential in...

This work aims to study the time-frequency relationship between the recent COVID-19 pandemic and instabilities in oil price and the stock market, geopolitical risks, and uncertainty in the economic policy in the USA, Europe, and China. The coherence wavelet method and the wavelet-based Granger causality tests are applied to the data (31st December...

This paper addresses the empirical relationship between energy poverty and energy efficiency in developed and developing countries through various domains. The analysis is conducted using energy poverty indicators, country-wise GDP, energy efficiency, and social welfare by using data envelopement analysis (DEA) and entropy method through mediating...

In the current scenario of surging current account deficits in Pakistan, this study attempts to explore the causes behind the phenomenon. It is also a fact that the current account deficit and fiscal deficit are chronic troubles of Pakistan hence twin deficit hypothesis is the best candidate to be investigated. In earlier studies, cointegration ana...

Purpose-First, the current study contributes to the available debate by reinvestigating the impact of economic growth (EG), foreign direct investment (FDI), technological innovation (TI) and inflation (INF) on trade openness (TO). Second, the study tests the moderating role of institutional quality (INS) on the relationship among EG, FDI, TI and TO...

This study examines the reliability of Altman's Z-score model to predict the financial failure of the ICT sector in Pakistan. Data for 11 PSE-listed (Pakistan Stock Exchange) ICT companies were collected through Altman's Z-score model in the period 2013-2018. The innovative Altman Z-bankruptcy forecast technique has been used for the analysis. Resu...

Recent research has shown a huge impact of non-renewable energy (NRE) production on environmental health. In this context, this work analyzes the effects of GDP growth and long- and short-term consumption of renewable and non-renewable energy (RE and NRE, respectively) on carbon emission in BRICS and OECD economies. The quantile autoregressive dist...

This paper investigates the efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of the Pakistani banking industry and determines the impact of risk and competition on the efficiency and TFP growth. The data envelopment analysis (DEA)–based Malmquist productivity index is used to measure efficiency and TFP growth of the Pakistani banking industry....

Disaster management in developing economies has become a significant issue due to the uncertain situation in the country and has attained the focus of upcoming studies and policymakers. Thus, the present research investigates the impact of coordination, decision making, and special data infrastructure on disaster management in Pakistan. This resear...

Recently, tourism development is considered a significant factor to enhance the economic growth of the country and has gained the attention of upcoming studies and regulators. Thus, the present research examines the impact of perceived service quality, perceived medical quality, and language style on the perceived tourism development in Malaysia. T...

Currently, there is an increasing trend in the organizations towards examining the artificial intelligence and nonartificial intelligence for the innovation and success of the new product, as well as getting the intentions of the upcoming researchers. Thus, the purpose of the ongoing study is to examine the role of artificial and nonartificial inte...

Greenhouse gasses have adverse effects on global warming and air pollution and need to be optimized by minimizing the contributing factors. This work analyzes the effects of economic growth and energy resources (renewable and nonrenewable) on the emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG). A 2000–2016 panel data from 25 developing Asian countries is anal...

The study is conducted on the management factors affecting talent turnover in the banks’ credit card centers. For this purpose, the primary data are gathered from 73 respondents of credit card departments of banks listed in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Reliability test of questionnaire items, chi-square test, cross-tab, relational and regression...

Environmental degradation has become a worldwide issue due to the high carbon emission and wastage from the industry sector that needs to be examined frequently. Thus, the present research investigates the corporate governance (board size, inside directors, institutional ownership, and managerial ownership)role to improve the environmental performa...

Recently, the tourism industry has a significant role in economic growth worldwide and attain the attention of recent researchers. Therefore, the ongoing study aims to examine the role of tourism IT adoption, TR management orientation, and tourism agility on the sustainable tourism supply chain performance (STSCP) of Maldives’ tourism industry. The...

The study is conducted on the management factors affecting talent turnover in the banks' credit card centers. For this purpose, the primary data are gathered from 73 respondents of credit card departments of banks listed in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Reliability test of questionnaire items, chi-square test, cross-tab, relational and regression...

Investors from the whole world are looking for those stock markets that are less affected by interest rates. Pakistan is a good place to invest and the investors from the whole world are considering Pakistan for future ventures. The current study, therefore, aims to analyze the factors affecting investors' decision making in Pakistan with the inter...

The economic growth of the countries depends on their monetary relationships with each other and the mega projects such as CPEC which joints the countries geographically along with socially & economically. In addition, this thing is getting attention for the researchers nowadays. Thus, the present study aim is to examine the impact of CPEC on infra...

Green finance is inextricably linked to investment risk, particularly in emerging and developing economies (EMDE). This study uses the difference in differences (DID) method to evaluate the mean causal effects of a treatment on an outcome of the determinants of scaling up green financing and climate change mitigation in the N-11 countries from 2005...

Green finance is inextricably linked to investment risk, particularly in emerging and developing economies (EMDE). This study uses the difference in differences (DID) method to evaluate the mean causal effects of a treatment on an outcome of the determinants of scaling up green financing and climate change mitigation in the N-11 countries from 2005...

The outbreak of COVID-19 creates serious distress for the world economy due to an increasing economic, financial and health related response to the pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to examine the reaction of the energy sector in the USA toward the outbreak of COVID-19, which reportedly began on 20th January, 2020 (event day). This study...

Majority of the rural people from developing countries are dependent on agriculture sector and the major source of energy is traditional biomass. Due to radical climate changes, their dependency on traditional biomass and agriculture sector increases their vulnerability and deteriorates the environment as well. Therefore, this study attempts to hig...

This paper examines the value relevance of financial information, available in the financial statements of publicly listed Malaysian main market firms. The sample of 257 public listed firms was used to test the hypotheses over the period 2012-2018, based on 1799 firm's year observations. This study has used Prais-Winsten Panel Corrected Standard Er...

Cite this Paper: Nawaz, M. A., Ahmad, T, I., Hussain, M. S, & Bhatti, M. A. (2020). How energy use, financial development and economic growth affect carbon dioxide emmission in selected association of south Asian nations? Paradigms, SI(1), 159-164. The relationship among economic growth, energy use, financial development, and carbon emissions (CO2)...

The neoclassical theory illustrates that the capital will flow from the capital-rich economies towards the capital-poor states. However, it is generally observed that the capital does not move from high-income to low-income economies. This contradictory behavior of global capital flows is called the Lucas paradox. According to Alfaro, Kalemli-Ozcan...

Recently, Islamic banking is considered as the suitable solution of many issues such as poverty, unemployment and inequality, and it is also considered as the possible approach of extensive economic growth. Thus, the objective of the current study is to examine the role of financial inclusion and Islamic Financial Instruments (IFIs) on the economic...

The economic growth of any country determines how developed a country is. It determines the development of any economy. However, many factors such as less labor, fewer resources, destruction of land etc., are now devaluating the economic growth and killing it. This question is of much importance as it frustrates the financial analysts and researche...

The purpose of current research is to investigate the effects of terrorism, corruption and market size by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate on inward !"#$%& '$"#() *&+#,)-#&) ('*) in the context of Pakistan over the period 1973-2017. After checking the integration order of time series data using the most popular test./%-#&)#0 '$(1#2 /33#" (....

The purpose of this research study is to explore the advance fundraising techniques in the non-profit, charitable, philanthropic organizations for the purpose of fundraising. This research study completed on the basis of primary data that is taken from NGO's in the region of Punjab. Frequency distribution statistical technique is used in this resea...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of external debt and corruption on economic growth in the selected five Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, from 1990 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach Panel unit root and panel cointegration tests are employed to test for stationarity of the series and the long-run relationship, respe...

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Cement production is an energy and carbon-intensive process. Hence, they are a noteworthy contributor to global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The cement industry has always been among the greatest CO2 discharge sources with 900 kg CO2 released with each production ton of cement. Malaysia massive amount of biogenic wastes, palms oil fuel ash, rice hu...

The recent persistent fall in global oil prices have made way for tourism as the next cash-cow and as a source of economic development for most of the economies. Unfortunately, the South Asian countries could not carry the pace to develop tourism despite having great tourism potential. Therefore, this study focuses on the situation of tourism poten...

Tourism has been considered as a vehicle for promoting better understanding and peace among the nations, and investments from the public and private sector are vital for the general economic growth as well as the sectoral growth such as tourism sector. Therefore, this study presents a review of existing literature and discussion on public and priva...

This paper addresses to assess the critical thinking ability of postgraduate students. The target population was the male and female students at University level in Pakistan. A small sample of 45 male and 45 female students was selected randomly from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Cornell Critical Thinking Test Series, The Cornell...

The focus of the study is to highlight the problems of working women in formal sector in Bahawalnagar. Sample of 100 formally employed women are selected from four public sector departments as 20 police women, 40 nurses, 20 school teachers and 20 college lecturers using stratified random sampling. Descriptive analysis is used for highlighting the p...

The focus of the study is to investigate the determinants of wage growth rate in private formal sector of Division Bahawalpur. A sample of 430 individuals is interviewed using a well structured interview schedule by convenient sampling. Ordinary least square method is applied to examine the dependency of growth rate of wage on different variables....