Bakhtawar Ijaz2025-07-312025-07-312019https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4168The focus of current study is to understand the influence of globalization on social development in 8 South Asian countries for the period 1980–2016. The globalization can be classified into economic, political and social globalization. This paper decides the variables that show the impact of globalization on social development. Eight critical independent variables are chosen which includes Gross fixed capital formation, Labor force, Development expenditure, while the proxies of globalization are Culture globalization, financial globalization, Information globalization, Interpersonal globalization and trade globalization. The dependent variable is social development proxied using life expectancy. To compute the relationship among social development and globalization, panel data method is employed respectively. The findings of this study suggest that gross fixed capital formation, culture globalization, financial globalization, information globalization and interpersonal globalization affect the life expectancy positively. But labor force, development expenditure and trade globalization influence the life expectancy negatively but insignificant. According to the research findings, several recommendations are given for the improvement of life expectancy through globalization.en-USThesis