Retraction Note:

The Editor-in-Chief has decided to retract the following article, Waqar Ahmad, Tingwu Yan, Suhair Hassan, Aqsa Bib.: Asian Development Policy Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 115-128, DOI 10.18488/journal.107.2018.63.115.128. Upon investigation carried out according to the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines, it has been found that the article duplicates tables and figures from Dr. Arshad Ali, BS thesis.

In particular, the authors duplicated tables and figures of a thesis on topic: Role of Farm Forestry in Poverty Alleviation and Natural Resource Conservation in Swat Valley by Dr. Arshad Ali, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Pakistan 2010 without proper acknowledgment.

The authors have agreed to the retraction.

The corresponding author, Waqar Ahmad from College of Economics and Management Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, wishes to admit sole responsibility and to state that his co-authors were not aware of his actions.