The Impact of Population Growth on Economic Growth of Pakistan
Keywords:
Economic Growth, Population Growth.Abstract
In literature, it appears a divergence of opinion among different economists and social scientist regarding the impact of growing population on economic growth. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of population growth on the economic growth of Pakistan, to what extent the growing population contributes in the economy. In order to empirically investigate the scenario quantitative techniques have been used. Both the dependent and independent variables are numerical of the simple regression analysis is enough to analyze the power of the model. The findings of this empirical study indicates that there is a positive relationships between population growth and economic growth but there is a negative relationship between growth and youth unemployment.
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