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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of surging debt servicing on economic growth, for the period ranging 1970–2016. Various econometric tools, such as multivariable regression and correlation etc. are used to analyse the data and conclude the results. Various errors in the data have been overcome by crosschecking of data. Smoothing techniques are also used to overcome the seasonal and non-seasonal variation in economic data. This report will generally focus on the Impacts of surging external debt servicing of Pakistan over a decade, on economic growth and will point out various areas from where our country can generate domestic as well as foreign revenues.
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Kamran, A., Syed, N.A., Qureshi, M.F., Rizvi, S.M.A., Hayat, A. (2021). Debt-Servicing Capacity and Economic Development: A Study of Pakistan. In: Xu, J., García Márquez, F.P., Ali Hassan, M.H., Duca, G., Hajiyev, A., Altiparmak, F. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2021. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79203-9_64
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