Publications

Neo-Liberal Governance and Poverty in Pakistan ..

Pakistan has a large population of tobacco users, with about 24 million adults consuming tobacco products in one form or another. There is a dearth of research on the impact of a reduction in tobacco use on Pakistan’s economy which can inform policy-makers on the extent that tobacco control measures would affect macroeconomic indicators such as output and employment. Objectives The objective ..

Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province ..

Climate Change and Drought: Impact of Food Insecurity on Gender Based Vulnerability in District Tharparkar ..

Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Role of Governance ..

Gender Inequality in Labour Force Participation: An Empirical Investigation ..

Simulating the Impact of Income Distribution on Poverty Reduction ..

An Empirical Analysis of Meat Demand: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Incidence of General Sales Tax in Pakistan: Latest Estimates ..

Financial Implications of 7th NFC Award and the Impact on Social Services. ..

Decentralisation of GST Services and Vertical Imbalances in Pakistan. ..

Is Devaluation Contractionary? Empirical Evidence for Pakistan. ..

Assessing Poverty with Non-Income Deprivation Indicators: Pakistan, 2008-09 ..

Savings-Investment Correlation and Capital Outflow: The Case of Pakistan ..

Macroeconomic Environment and Financial Sector’s Performance: Econometric Evidence from three Traditional Approaches.  ..

G-20 and Development: A View from Pakistan ..

The Impact of Trade and Financial-Openness on Government Size: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Urbanization and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pakistan - ..

Role of Women in Peace and Conflict: Suffering of Afghan Women ..

Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Implications for Poor People of Pakistan ..

Is There any Causality between Human Resource Development and Economic Growth? A Provincial Case Study on Pakistan - 2009 ..

Capitalizing the Demograhic Dividend  ..

Challenges and Responses for Democracy and Security: Pakistan’s Perspective ..

Finance-Openness Nexus and Financial Institutions: A Case of Pakistan ..

The Changing Security Spectrum of South Asia: Consequences for SAARC ..

Nominal and Real Devaluation Nexus & Two Econometric Approaches for Pakistan ..

Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: ARDL Causality in Pakistan  ..

Does Foreign Remittances Reduce Government Spending? Long and Short Run Phenomenon ..

Estimating the Black Economy through a Monetary Appraoch: A Case Study of Pakistan  ..

Does Globalization Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Pakistan  ..

Macroeconomic Determinants of Poor's Happiness: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Either Captial Account Opennes Regressive or Progressive: Economietric Evidence from Pakistan ..

Bi-Directional causality Between FDI & Savings: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

SAARC Prospects and Challenges ..

Direct Foreign Investment and Income Distribution: A Case Study for Pakistan ..

Mapping the Terrain: The Activities of Faith-based Organizations in Development in Pakistan ..

Ideological Divide of theNonprofit Sector in Pakistan ..

Long-Run and Short-Run Linkage between Financial Development and Poverty Reducation in Pakistan ..

Stock Returns and Inflation: An ARDL Econometric Investigation Utilizing Pakistani Data ..

The Changing Security Spectrum and Issues of Cultural Identitity ..

Une Question de Perception ..

Remittances and Financial Sector's Performance: Under Two Alternative Approaches for Pakistan ..

An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: A Case for Pakistan ..

Trade and Inequality Nexus in Pakistan: Under Investigation of Alternative Techniques ..

Dynamism in the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Pakistan ..

Rural-Urban Income Inequality under Financial Development and Trade Openness in Pakistan: The Econometric Evidence ..

Exports, Productivity and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis ..

How External Shocks and Exchange Rate Depreciations Affect Pakistan? Implications for Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime ..

Does Inequality Matter for Poverty Reducation? Evidence from Pakistan's Poverty Trends ..

Macroeconomic Reforms and Return to Human Captial in Pakistan ..

Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in Pakistan ..

Impact of Ownership and Concentration of Land on Schooling ..

Is Search of Poverty Predictors: The Case of Urban and Rural Pakistan ..

Short-Run Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan ..

Health Demand and Outcomes in Pakistan ..

Factors Influencing of Girls' Primary Enrolment in Pakistan ..

Why Private Investment in Pakistan has Collasped and How it can be Restored ..

Zakat as a Social Safety Net: Exploring the Impat on Household welfare in Pakistan ..

On the Causal Relationship between Government Expenditure and Tax Revenue in Pakistan ..

Is Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector Competitive? ..

Agricultural Terms of Trade in Pakistan: Issues of Profitability and Standard of Living of the Farmers ..

Trade, Investment and Growth Nexus in Pakistan: An Application of Cointegration and Multivariate Causality Test ..

Socioeconomic and Environment Conditions and Diarrhoeal Disease among Children in Pakistan ..

The Periods of Disinvestment in Different Sectors of the Pakistan Economy ..

Emerging Macroeconomic Imbalances ..

Relationship Between Health Expenditure and GDP in an Augmented Solow Growth Model for Pakistan: An Application of Co-integration and Error Correction Modelling ..

Income Patterns of Woman Workers in Pakistan- A Case Study of the Urban Manufacturing Sector ..

Changes in Returns to Education in Pakistan: 1990-2002 ..

Gender and Public Spending on Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Disaggregated Benefit Incidence ..

Hidden Subsidies ..

Non-profit Sector in Pakistan: Government Policy and Future Issues ..

Foreign Capital Inflows and Domestic Savings in Pakistan: Co-integration Techniques and Error Correction Modelling ..

Measurement of Cost of Capital for Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan: A Neoclassical Approach ..

Elasticity and Buoyancy of Major Taxes in Pakistan ..

Dynamic Consequences of 1997 NFC Award: Provincial Social Sector Expenditure ..

Crowding out Hypothesis in a Vector Error Correction Framework: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Stabilization Policy vs Growth Oriented Policy: Implications for the Pakistan Economy ..

Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in the 1990s ..

The City of Karachi: Planning and Managing for Urban Development ..

Impediments to Improvements of Social Services in Pakistan ..

Fiscal Decentralisation: Lessons from the South Asian Experience ..

Some Issues of Governance in Pakistan ..

Pakistan's Trade Performance vis-à-vis its Major Trading Partners ..

Devolution and Fiscal Decentralisation ..

Governance, Decentralisation and Poverty: The Case of Pakistan ..

Co-integration & Causality Between Money Supply and Inflation: A Case of Pakistan ..

Facilitating the Provision of Farm Credit: The Role of Interlocking Transactions Between Traders and Zamindars in Crop Marketing Systems in Sindh ..

Fifty Years of Public Finance in Pakistan ..

Gender Inequality in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Pakistan's Ranking in Social Development: Have We Always Been Backward? ..

Impediments to Social Development in Pakistan ..

The Post-Explosion Budget ..

Pakistan: Economic Overview ..

Interlocking Transactions in Agriculture, Sindh, Pakistan ..

Macro Trends in Corporate Profitability in Pakistan ..

Comparing the Seed Cotton and Wheat Marketing Chains in Sindh ..

Can Cost Effective Reallocation of Inputs Increase the Efficiency of the Public Health System in Pakistan? ..

Economic Overview: Pakistan ..

Determinants of Intra-Urban Residential Mobility in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Pakistan ..

Globalization of the Pakistani Economy: Autarky or Dependence ..

The Structure of Government in Pakistan ..

Governance and Fiscal Reforms ..

Political Economy of Higher Education: A Study of Pakistan ..

A Case Study of Pakistan ..

Relative Fiscal Effort by Provincial Governments in Pakistan (1989-90 and 1994-95) ..

Integrated Social-Sector Macroeconomic Model for Pakistan ..

Social Development Ranking of Districts of Pakistan ..

Gender Differentials in the Cost of Primary Education: A Study of Pakistan ..

Excess Burden of the Property Tax: The Open Jurisdiction Case ..

Do Girls have a Higher School Drop-out Rate than Boys? A Hazard Rate Analysis of Evidence from a Third World City ..

Suburban Minimum Lot Zoning and Spatial Equilibrium ..

Demand for Housing Attributes in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan ..

The Structure of Government in Pakistan ..

The Determinants of Rates of Octroi Tax in Pakistan ..

Political Economy of Tax: A Study on Improving the Efficiency & Effectiveness of Spending in the Social Sectors & Increasing Resources Mobilisation in the Provinces ..

What Explains the Current High Rate of Inflation in Pakistan ..

Is the Social Action Programme in Pakistan Financially Sustainable? ..

Optimal Local Sales Tax ..

General Equilibrium Effects of Local Taxes ..

Comparative Statistics Analysis of Urban Land Value in the Presence of Government Regulation ..

Excess Burden of the Property Tax: The Open Versus the Closed City Case ..