AN ANALYSIS OF ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL EXPORTS OF PAKISTAN WITH SAARC COUNTRIES: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS
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2011
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Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC)
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Among the SAARC countries, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had a share of 2.1 per cent, 1.4 per cent and 0.9 percent respectively, in the total exports of Pakistan. Therefore, it becomes imperative to study Pakistan's export potential in relation to SAARC countries. It was further recorded that all SAARC countries' trade including Pakistan is intense with one or two
markets during the study period. Therefore, the present study aims at finding whether Pakistan
has the potential to export to these nations by using gravity model. Pakistan's export potential
to SAARC nations (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka) was
calculated with the help of gravity model of exports using panel data methodology (pooled
model, fixed effect model and random effect model) by employing the data over time period
1981-2005. To find out the convergence and divergence of Pakistan's exports to SAARC
members, speed of convergence has been used. The study revealed that, there was presence of
convergence in Pakistan's exports with SAARC countries; in other words, actual Pakistan's
exports to SAARC countries converged towards the estimated export potential. The study also
found that among SAARC countries, Pakistan's net export potential exists for Bhutan, India,
Maldives and Nepal. Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal are not only far away from Pakistan but they
do not have any common borders with Pakistan. Therefore, Pakistan needs facility for transit
trade with Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan, through India to realized its export potential.
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Kaur, Sandeep & Nanda Parmjit., An analysis of actual and potential exports of Pakistan with SAARC contries: A panel data analysis., Pakistan Journal of applied economics (2011)., Vol- 21 (1&2), PP.69-91