Arif Khan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 160109 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arif Khan |
| NOMBRES | Arif |
| APELLIDO | Khan |
| FIRMA | KHAN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7417-3981 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Vanadium in Soil‐Plant Systems
Vanadium (V), a redox‐sensitive trace metal abundant in mineral and fossil fuel deposits, is vital for industrial applications but poses significant ecotoxicological risks at elevated concentrations in soil–plant systems. However, this review synthesizes the biogeochemical cycling of vanadium, focusing on its dominant redox species, V 4+ and V 5+ , and their environmental fate, which is influenced by soil pH, redox potential, organic matter, and …
Technology Spillovers, Innovation, and Digitalization as Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Asia
This study investigates whether technology‐driven channels contribute to poverty (Pov) reduction in Asia. Specifically, it examines the effects of technology spillovers through Greenfield foreign direct investment (Gfi), technological innovation (Tec), and digitalization (Dig) on Pov levels in 32 Asian countries over the period 2001–2023. Using balanced panel data from international sources, the study applies Random Effects (RE) and System Genera…
Evaluating external debt sustainability across the globe
Examining the Moderated-Mediation Role of the Financial Sector and Institutional Quality in the Relationship Between Remittances and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Exploring the synergies between natural resources, technological innovation, and fiscal and monetary policies for promoting environmental sustainability in Asean countries
Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Asean
Institutional quality (IQ) stands as a cornerstone in shaping foreign direct investment (FDI), influencing both the confidence and commitment of international investors in any nation's economy. This research empirically explores the influence of IQ variables, along with other important macroeconomic factors, on inward FDI in nine countries of the (ASEAN) using quarterly data from 2002Q1 to 2022Q4. Appropriate estimation techniques, including Robu…
Multidimensional Inclusive Growth and Determinants in Pakistan
Inclusive growth (IG) aims to create decent work and economic opportunities for all, including marginalized populations, which aligns with the SDG-8 objective of promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Many studies measure IG through a single dimension, overlooking its multidimensional economic, social, health, and sustainability aspects. This study contributes by constructing a multidimensional IG index and using the four…
Exploring Sustainable Development in the Sub-Saharan African Region
As per the Sustainable Development Report-2023, the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region is the most economically deprived region, with the Sustainable Development Goals score ranking at the bottom among all 193 United Nations member countries. The role of economic discomfort (the summation of inflation and unemployment) in sustainable development (SD) is understudied in the context of SSA. This study is an effort to empirically explore the role of e…
Estimating the Savings Function in Developing Asian Economies
All countries strive to achieve an improved level of economic growth and thereby enhance living standards. The role of saving as a key driver of economic growth through investment cannot be overlooked. Thus, this study aims to empirically examine the impacts of various factors, namely, income (real GDP per capita), age dependency ratio, life expectancy, workers' remittances, inflation rate, real interest rate and financial development on the savi…
Assessing the Link Between Environmental Quality and Life Expectancy in Developing Nations
This study examines the relationship between environmental quality, measured by carbon emissions (CO2), and life expectancy (LE) in 31 developing nations from 1981 to 2020. The analysis uses the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)/pooled mean group (PMG) approach. Panel cointegration tests suggest cointegration in the series. The results indicate that environmental quality has a significantly negative impact on LE, whereas real gross dome…
The Afghan Peace Building Process
At the beginning of the U.S.-Afghan war in 2001, none of the parties involved was willing to talk to each other. Over time, however, the need for peace negotiations became apparent, and a peace process slowly gained momentum in 2004. Although the Taliban militarily captured Kabul in 2021, one of the outcomes of the peace process was the Doha Peace Agreement signed by the United States and the Afghan Taliban, in which the latter guaranteed that th…
An exploratory prioritisation of supervision styles in library and information science experiential learning programmes in Pakistan
Library and information science (LIS) education in Pakistan requires students to undergo in-depth supervised practicum placement as part of the course requirements. The purpose of this study was to explore the supervision styles of LIS practicum supervisors, and to examine how these supervision styles are perceived by the practicum students. Forty-three semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with practising librarians ( n = 21) who su…
Empirical testing of the environmental Kuznets curve
Factors determining water stress
Analyzing the effects of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality in Saarc developing nations
The growing issue of poverty and inequitable income distribution is a prevalent concern in many economies across the globe. It acts as an impediment to economic development, especially in the developing world. This study aims to explore the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income-inequality in five SAARC countries (2004–2021). The FMOLS estimator is used in the case of individual country analysis, whereas, the fixed-effects, and GMM, …
Analyzing three Zeros (zero poverty, unemployment, and carbon emissions) in Asia and the Pacific region
Poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation are growing issues and significant challenges to sustainable development. They are visible obstacles to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The three ZEROS (zero net carbon emissions, zero poverty, and zero unemployment) within the SDGs have not yet been thoroughly explored and need to be empirically examined. This is the primary aim of this study, which focuses o…
The role of financial inclusion, technology innovation, energy and environmental degradation in determining sustainable growth in Asia
Sustainable growth is a top priority for all economies as they work towards creating a prosperous and resilient future for current and future generations. This study empirically explores the important role of financial inclusion (FI), energy consumption, technological (TECH) innovation and environmental degradation in the economic growth of 13 selected developing Asian countries from 2000 to 2021. The feasible generalized least squares method is …
Re-examining the Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for South Asian Countries
This study re-examines the validity of Kuznets curve hypothesis for six South Asian countries, namely, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh, over the period 1991-2018. The Pooled Mean Group (PMG) technique results in the short and long run reveal an S-shaped curve relationship between income inequality and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for all countries, that is, negative at the beginning, positive after the first t…
Metaphor Used by the US as a Lethal Weapon of Mass Destruction against the Other for Pursuing Ulterior Motives
To get access to the resources-rich central Asian states and to nip in the bud the state of Afghanistan, that had proclaimed itself under the Taliban regime to be a state run solely under the ideology and system of Islam- the next threat to The US after the socialism-the US, after the 9/11 incident, took resource to using the linguistic weapon of metaphor before and along the surgical strikes and managed to beset the thoughts of every individual …
Revisiting the determinants of life expectancy in Asia—exploring the role of institutional quality, financial development, and environmental degradation
Effects of Renewable Energy Consumption on Human Development
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of renewable energy consumption along with some other regressors namely income by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, foreign remittances, inflation rate, growth in population on human development in eight Asian countries (Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Japan) from 1995 to 2018. Based on the nature of panel balanced data, we employed the fully modifi…
Problems in Assimilation of English Words for Undergraduate Level Students in Hazara University
This present study has focused on the problems in the assimilation of English words for undergraduates in Hazara University. A survey descriptive design was used to collect data from fifty undergraduates selected through convenient-non probability sampling technique who were asked to comprehend the assimilation process in certain words in the selected clips from English movies. To measure the problems in assimilation for the students, the student…
Does foreign aid stimulate economic growth in developing countries? Further evidence in both aggregate and disaggregated samples
Comparing the Impact of Road Networks on Covid-19 Severity between Delta and Omicron Variants
The Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 have recently become the most dominant virus strains worldwide. A recent study on the Delta variant found that a suburban road network provides a reliable proxy for human mobility to explore COVID-19 severity. This study first examines the impact of road networks on COVID-19 severity for the Omicron variant using the infection and road connections data from Greater Sydney, Australia. We then compare the …
Suburban Road Networks to Explore Covid-19 Vulnerability and Severity
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been found to be extremely difficult to contain worldwide. The complex dynamics of human mobility and the variable intensity of local outbreaks make measuring the factors of COVID-19 transmission a challenge. The inter-suburb road connection details provide a reliable proxy of the moving options for people between suburbs for a given region. By using such data from Greater Sydney, Australia, this study explored t…
Analyzing three Zeros (zero poverty, unemployment, and carbon emissions) in Asia and the Pacific region
Poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation are growing issues and significant challenges to sustainable development. They are visible obstacles to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The three ZEROS (zero net carbon emissions, zero poverty, and zero unemployment) within the SDGs have not yet been thoroughly explored and need to be empirically examined. This is the primary aim of this study, which focuses o…
Energy and economic growth in developing Asian economies
The pivotal role of energy in the progression of economic growth cannot be overlooked. Given its importance to policymakers, the influence of energy use on economic growth is undeniably crucial and thus should be explored meticulously. This study empirically examines the impact of energy on economic growth within the production function framework of a panel of 10 developing Asian economies from 1990Q1 to 2014Q4. The pooled mean group, fully modif…
Effects of Renewable Energy Consumption on Human Development
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of renewable energy consumption along with some other regressors namely income by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, foreign remittances, inflation rate, growth in population on human development in eight Asian countries (Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Japan) from 1995 to 2018. Based on the nature of panel balanced data, we employed the fully modifi…
Ethnomedicinal survey of various communities residing in Garo Hills of Durgapur, Bangladesh
Present investigation revealed a rich traditional practice in the studied region, which provides primary health care to the local community. This compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge can help researchers to identify the uses of various medicinal plants that have a long history of use
Health is Wealth
Dynamic links among tourism, energy consumption, and economic growth
Achieving sustainable development is the prime objective of every government. Based on Solow's theoretical proposition, this study attempts to explore empirically the linkages between tourism, energy consumption, and economic growth, for the top nine Asian travel and tourism countries including Indonesia between 1995 and 2018. The fully modified ordinary least squares method and Granger's causality approaches are implemented for empirical analysi…
Income heterogeneity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Sub-Saharan African countries
Military Expenditures and Unemployment Nexus for Selected South Asian Countries
Inequality and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific Region
The broad objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of inequality and other explanatory variables, including inflation, foreign direct investment, human capital, and migrant workers’ remittances, on economic growth using a panel of 13 Asia and the Pacific countries between 1996 and 2008. According to the results of the Hausman test, the random-effects model was preferred over the fixed-effects model in most of the equations. Empirical re…
The Impact of Foreign Remittances on Poverty Alleviation
This study using an empirical analysis to examine the impact of foreign remittances along with some other variables (foreign aid, debt, human capital, inflation and income) on poverty alleviation in 39 countries including the lower middle, upper middle and high income countries. The study uses the data covering the period of 1990-2014 and the method of Panel fully modified OLS (FMOLS). The FMOLS estimates reveal that increase in income leads to d…
The monetarist hypothesis of inflation in Pakistan – a critique
The aim of the present study is to analyze empirically the significance of the monetarist explanation of inflation in Pakistan. After testing the data for stationarity, the method of least squares is used. Regression analysis shows slight effects of money supply on inflation while, by contrast, structural factors involving wheat, oil and import prices show more substantial effects. The effective control of inflation requires policy makers to smoo…
Ethnomedicinal survey of various communities residing in Garo Hills of Durgapur, Bangladesh
Present investigation revealed a rich traditional practice in the studied region, which provides primary health care to the local community. This compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge can help researchers to identify the uses of various medicinal plants that have a long history of use
The Impact of Foreign Remittances on Poverty Alleviation
This study using an empirical analysis to examine the impact of foreign remittances along with some other variables (foreign aid, debt, human capital, inflation and income) on poverty alleviation in 39 countries including the lower middle, upper middle and high income countries. The study uses the data covering the period of 1990-2014 and the method of Panel fully modified OLS (FMOLS). The FMOLS estimates reveal that increase in income leads to d…
Military Expenditures and Unemployment Nexus for Selected South Asian Countries
Effect of tourism on environmental pollution
Inequality and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific Region
The broad objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of inequality and other explanatory variables, including inflation, foreign direct investment, human capital, and migrant workers’ remittances, on economic growth using a panel of 13 Asia and the Pacific countries between 1996 and 2008. According to the results of the Hausman test, the random-effects model was preferred over the fixed-effects model in most of the equations. Empirical re…
Energy and economic growth in developing Asian economies
The pivotal role of energy in the progression of economic growth cannot be overlooked. Given its importance to policymakers, the influence of energy use on economic growth is undeniably crucial and thus should be explored meticulously. This study empirically examines the impact of energy on economic growth within the production function framework of a panel of 10 developing Asian economies from 1990Q1 to 2014Q4. The pooled mean group, fully modif…
Income heterogeneity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Sub-Saharan African countries
Monetarism or Keynesian Discourse in Indonesia
This paper examines the relative effectiveness of fiscal policy and monetary policy in Indonesia during 1970–2015, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration and Toda–Yamamoto causality. The ARDL results suggest that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between monetary policy and economic growth in Indonesia. In the short run, money supply is found to positively affect growth while interest r…
Fractionated illumination improves the treatment outcomes of photodynamic therapy for high grade cutaneous leishmaniasis
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been widely used in dermatology to treat different skin diseases. Here, we aim to compare the efficacy of single versus multiple fraction light illumination PDT for high grade lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). In particular, 60 patients (104 CL lesions) were randomly divided into two groups; 30 patients (46 CL lesions) in group I were treated with methylaminolevulinate (MAL)-based PDT in three sessions, with …
Nuqta
The purpose of this series with the title “Nuqta: An Emblem of Divinity” was to unveil the mystical connotations underlying a visual Nuqta (dot) in the genre of contemporary calligraphic art. Nuqta
Testing Malthusian's and Kremer's population theories in developing economy
Purpose This study aims to test the Malthusian and Kremer theories by exploring the relationship between population and economic growth in a low middle-income economy of India. Design/methodology/approach The autoregressive distributed lag approach is employed based on the nature of time-series data to achieve the study objectives. In this study, regressand is economic growth measured by real GDP, and the regressors are population growth rate, in…
A Framework to Understand the Progression of Cardiovascular Disease for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Using a Network Approach
The prevalence of chronic disease comorbidity has increased worldwide. Comorbidity-i.e., the presence of multiple chronic diseases-is associated with adverse health outcomes in terms of mobility and quality of life as well as financial burden. Understanding the progression of comorbidities can provide valuable insights towards the prevention and better management of chronic diseases. Administrative data can be used in this regard as they contain …
Comparative Perspective
Great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, which inspires states to enhance influence in strategically important regions. The Middle East region has always remained the centre of attraction for major powers due to its geostrategic importance and huge energy resources. The civil war in Syria…
Dynamic nexus among tourism, corruption, democracy and environmental degradation
Dynamic links among tourism, energy consumption, and economic growth
Achieving sustainable development is the prime objective of every government. Based on Solow's theoretical proposition, this study attempts to explore empirically the linkages between tourism, energy consumption, and economic growth, for the top nine Asian travel and tourism countries including Indonesia between 1995 and 2018. The fully modified ordinary least squares method and Granger's causality approaches are implemented for empirical analysi…
Problems in Assimilation of English Words for Undergraduate Level Students in Hazara University
This present study has focused on the problems in the assimilation of English words for undergraduates in Hazara University. A survey descriptive design was used to collect data from fifty undergraduates selected through convenient-non probability sampling technique who were asked to comprehend the assimilation process in certain words in the selected clips from English movies. To measure the problems in assimilation for the students, the student…
Does foreign aid stimulate economic growth in developing countries? Further evidence in both aggregate and disaggregated samples
Comparing the Impact of Road Networks on Covid-19 Severity between Delta and Omicron Variants
The Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 have recently become the most dominant virus strains worldwide. A recent study on the Delta variant found that a suburban road network provides a reliable proxy for human mobility to explore COVID-19 severity. This study first examines the impact of road networks on COVID-19 severity for the Omicron variant using the infection and road connections data from Greater Sydney, Australia. We then compare the …
Suburban Road Networks to Explore Covid-19 Vulnerability and Severity
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been found to be extremely difficult to contain worldwide. The complex dynamics of human mobility and the variable intensity of local outbreaks make measuring the factors of COVID-19 transmission a challenge. The inter-suburb road connection details provide a reliable proxy of the moving options for people between suburbs for a given region. By using such data from Greater Sydney, Australia, this study explored t…
Causal nexus in industrialization, urbanization, trade openness, and carbon emissions
Evaluating the impact of GDP per capita on environmental degradation for G-20 economies
Analysing Association in Environmental Pollution, Tourism and Economic Growth
Clean and green environment along with sustainable development is the prime objective of every state. We explore empirically the nexus between tourism, environmental pollution measured by carbon (CO2) emissions, population, trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in six countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States over 1995-2018. Traditional panel estimation technique is employed, where the Hausman test suggests fixed-…
Health is Wealth
Metaphor Used by the US as a Lethal Weapon of Mass Destruction against the Other for Pursuing Ulterior Motives
To get access to the resources-rich central Asian states and to nip in the bud the state of Afghanistan, that had proclaimed itself under the Taliban regime to be a state run solely under the ideology and system of Islam- the next threat to The US after the socialism-the US, after the 9/11 incident, took resource to using the linguistic weapon of metaphor before and along the surgical strikes and managed to beset the thoughts of every individual …
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