Publications

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 ..

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

Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province ..

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

Simulating the Impact of Income Distribution on Poverty Reduction ..

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

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

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

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

Is Devaluation Contractionary? Empirical Evidence for Pakistan. ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neo-Liberal Governance and Poverty in Pakistan ..

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

Capitalizing the Demograhic Dividend  ..

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

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

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

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

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

SAARC Prospects and Challenges ..

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

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

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

Does Globalization Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Pakistan  ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Une Question de Perception ..

The Changing Security Spectrum and Issues of Cultural Identitity ..

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

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

Ideological Divide of theNonprofit Sector in Pakistan ..

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

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

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

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

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

Impact of Ownership and Concentration of Land on Schooling ..

Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in Pakistan ..

Macroeconomic Reforms and Return to Human Captial in Pakistan ..

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

Is Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector Competitive? ..

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

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

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

Factors Influencing of Girls' Primary Enrolment in Pakistan ..

Health Demand and Outcomes in Pakistan ..

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

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

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

Emerging Macroeconomic Imbalances ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hidden Subsidies ..

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

Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in the 1990s ..

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

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

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

Elasticity and Buoyancy of Major Taxes in Pakistan ..

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

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

Devolution and Fiscal Decentralisation ..

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

Some Issues of Governance in Pakistan ..

Fiscal Decentralisation: Lessons from the South Asian Experience ..

Impediments to Improvements of Social Services in Pakistan ..

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

Impediments to Social Development in Pakistan ..

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

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

Fifty Years of Public Finance in Pakistan ..

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

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

Macro Trends in Corporate Profitability in Pakistan ..

Interlocking Transactions in Agriculture, Sindh, Pakistan ..

Pakistan: Economic Overview ..

The Post-Explosion Budget ..

The Structure of Government in Pakistan ..

Globalization of the Pakistani Economy: Autarky or Dependence ..

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

Economic Overview: Pakistan ..

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

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

Suburban Minimum Lot Zoning and Spatial Equilibrium ..

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

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

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

Social Development Ranking of Districts of Pakistan ..

Integrated Social-Sector Macroeconomic Model for Pakistan ..

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

A Case Study of Pakistan ..

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

Governance and Fiscal Reforms ..

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

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

General Equilibrium Effects of Local Taxes ..

Optimal Local Sales Tax ..

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

What Explains the Current High Rate of Inflation 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 ..

The Determinants of Rates of Octroi Tax in Pakistan ..

The Structure of Government in Pakistan ..