Growing External Debt and Declining Export: The Concurrent Impediments in Economic Growth among South Asian Countries

Abstract

The present study was conducted to check the growing external debts and declining
export, concurrent impediments in the South Asian Countries Economic growth. The study was
conducted in the South Asian markets and these countries were considered as the study
population. The study has taken Pakistan as a sample unit. The study has used ARDL approach
and other estimation techniques for the final data analysis and recommendation of model. The
study has taken the monthly data for external debts, imports, exports, balance of trade and
economic growth from 2008 to 2018.