International portfolio flows converge in the medium run to a country-specific, supply-side estimate of their natural level. Our level capital flows, KF*, has impressive out-of-sample empirical features, greatly improves our ability model notoriously volatile and performs well against in-sample filtering techniques. Further, gap between actual inflows KF* helps predict sudden stop episodes, equ...

Sustainable Livelihoods Approach emerged in the 1980s as a new analytical approach in the field of rural development inwhich the rural livelihood capitals form the basis of the villagers' empowerment and their ability to get involved in their own individual and social destiny. This study aimed to answer the question that how much the importance of each type of livelihood capitals is in the Cent...