Moderating Effects of Logistics Infrastructure Development and Real Sector Productivity: A Case of Pakistan

Arshed, Noman; Hassan, Muhammad Shahid; Khan, Muhammad Umair; Uppal, Arslan Arif

doi:10.1177/0972150919879307

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“…The logistics system has been increasingly recognized as one of the fundamental driving forces for economic growth [15]. A developed logistics infrastructure facilitates backward and forward linkages in global trade and helps to manage the business cost of accessing markets [16]. One of the critical elements of the logistics system is transport.…”

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Road Transport and Its Impact on Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This paper discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air pollution. Many urban inhabitants were confined to their homes during the lockdown. This had an impact air pollution, due to a reduction the number of vehicles being operated in cities. People also limited the number of visits to shopping centers; additionally, sports venues were closed and cultural events cancelled. The COVID-19 pandemic therefore had a positive impact on air pollution. Several studies from around the world confirm this. The research presented here is based on hourly measurements of PM10 and NO2 concentrations measured in background ambient air at a specific intersection located in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to confirm or exclude the hypothesis that the measured concentrations of PM10 and NO2 pollutants were lower during 2020 than in 2019, when states of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic were declared. The data were aggregated into monthly subsets and statistically analyzed. The data was graphically visualized and evaluated by means of exploratory data analysis. To compare the pollution levels in individual months, a parametric statistical analysis (two-sample t-test) was used. A statistically significant reduction was observed in the measured concentrations in 2020 compared to 2019 during periods when states of emergency were declared.

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Road Transport and Its Impact on Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…In developing countries like Pakistan, logistics infrastructure is crucial in reaping productivity from the industrial sector [56]. It shows the direct and indirect effects of transportation on Pakistan's economic growth [44,57].…”

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“…Accordingly, the role of transport becomes pivotal in entire regions' collegial prosperity and socioeconomic capabilities [60]. Even the existing studies provide a useful insight into the impact of the logistic industry and economic growth across various countries; a few studies are found to be reliable and robust in examining a similar perspective on Pakistan [44,56,61]. In particular, the logistics industry has not been fully explored in connection with developing economies like Pakistan, which holds an essential place in the world in terms of its strategic location and acts as a bridge between Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the Arabian Sea.…”

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A Correlative Analysis of Modern Logistics Industry to Developing Economy Using the VAR Model: A Case of Pakistan

Hanif

Baig

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The modern logistics industry has opened new strategic perspectives in establishing its interrelation with economic growth. In recent years, understanding such an overlap has become a policy issue considering ever-increasing factors and their influence on this relation. Most existing studies have explored this interaction from a general perspective, or for developed countries. This paper explores time-series analysis of the dynamic variables and their inter-related influence in both the short and long run on the relationship between modern logistic industry and economic growth—a more specific perspective, particularly for developing countries. Accordingly, we exemplify our analysis by employing the vector autoregression (VAR) model to the most updated time series data of investment in the logistics industry and the economic growth of Pakistan from 1990 to 2018. The empirical findings endorse the previous studies’ outcomes and recognize the importance of sustainable economic development concerning continuously improving the logistics industry. However, a unidirectional relation is observed that economic growth leads to developing the logistics industry—economic growth exerts a significant demand-pull effect on Pakistan’s logistics. It implies that logistic industrial development is comparatively quicker in the geographical areas where economic growth is higher than those areas where economic growth is low. To conclude this study’s findings, logistics industry reforms should prioritize the selected geographical areas in improving the economy that would lead to the modern logistics industry’s development. As the model adopts Pakistan’s context, the overall statistical analysis can be generalized to other developing economies. These results would be of particular interest to strategy makers working in developing countries and help them design and develop modern transportation and logistics, coupled with interlinked technological factors, which would attract investment in the logistics industry for sustainable economic development.

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“…First, infrastructure improvement will improve economic growth, later economic growth will improve infrastructure. The performance of production factors directly is related to infrastructure as improved infrastructure improves overall performance and productivity (Farhadi, 2015; Arshed et al , 2019). And this practice of infrastructure in developed nations is prominent, and it would not be wrong to say that it has played a central role in their development (Vlahinić Lenz et al , 2018).…”

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“…It can also be disaggregated into three components such as industrial, agricultural and services value addition (Arshed et al , 2019). If there is no sound infrastructure system in the economy, these components do not contribute to GDP (Gaal and Afrah, 2017; Tsaurai and Ndou, 2019; Arshed et al , 2019), because the role of infrastructure is to capture the benefits of economic growth within the boundaries of a country and abroad (Olarreaga, 2016). The role of road and rail infrastructure can capture the economic growth within the country.…”

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Can efficient transport moderate real sector productivity?

Arshed

Sardar

Iqbal

2021

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Purpose This study aims to test the role of infrastructure for economic growth. For this purpose, panel data of the world is selected from 1998 to 2018 and the study has used slope moderator to test the productivity of real economic activity with economic growth. Design/methodology/approach In this context, the feasible generalized least square method is adopted to estimate the results. Four types of infrastructure indicators i.e. quality of air, port, rail and road are used along with disaggregated GDP. Findings According to the results of this study, the role of industrial and agricultural value addition without infrastructure is negative. For industrial value addition, the cross product with all infrastructure types positively impacts economic growth. All the infrastructures, along with services value addition, except seaport, are contributing to economic growth positively. Along with agriculture value addition, only road infrastructure is contributing to economic growth positively. This study has also used two control variables i.e. quality of education and institutions. These variables are also found to be positive and significant with economic growth. Originality/value This study explores the moderating role of quality of infrastructure sector on real sector productivity, which is leading to economic growth.

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Moderating Effects of Logistics Infrastructure Development and Real Sector Productivity: A Case of Pakistan

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Road Transport and Its Impact on Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Road Transport and Its Impact on Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Correlative Analysis of Modern Logistics Industry to Developing Economy Using the VAR Model: A Case of Pakistan

Can efficient transport moderate real sector productivity?

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