Abstract
Wealth sustainability has always remained a policy concern for policymakers in developing economies like Pakistan. This study has filled the gap by investigating weak sustainability and determinants of wealth accumulation for 46 years, from 1972 to 2017, in Pakistan. Wealth sustainability has been analyzed through the Genuine Savings (GS) Index.Moreover, the auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) model has been applied to find out the effects of wealth determining factors ̶ which include Government expenditure, real gross domestic product (GDP),real money market rate, life expectancy, and real money supply ̶ over wealth accumulation. Results of the GS estimate imply that during the reporting period, the economy is sustainable, and ARDL results show that the effects of government expenditure, real gross domestic product(GDP), and life expectancy on wealth accumulation are significant and positive in the long run, the effect of interest rate is positive but insignificant.
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