This research aims at investigating the relationship between oil prices, migration and remittance flows between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan from 1980 to 2014-15. The main objective of this study was to analyse how fluctuations ...
Controlling corruption is on the agenda of all the developing countries because of its harmful and corrosive effects on investment and growth. The existing literature provides evidence that good governance eventually leads ...
The purpose of this research was to study the trend observed of some of the determinants namely literacy rates/educational levels, fertility rates, dependency, urbanization and income inequality on female labour force ...
In recent times, a considerable surge in women’s empowerment through increase in their socio-economic status has been observed, which has implications for transforming the social values at large. In this backdrop, the ...
Terrorism is an international phenomenon and has hampered world peace to a great extent. As a frontline state in the war against terror, Pakistan has faced terrorist attacks over the last 11 years. These have shaken the ...
Microfinance institutions are moving towards commercialization in an effort to become sustainable and profit oriented. There are certain underlying external factors contributing towards the social and financial performance ...
This research study aims at investigating the relationship between total crop production and food security index in Pakistan since 1990 to 2014-15, along with presenting an insight into the relationship between agricultural ...
The purpose of this research is to analyze the food security situation in Pakistan in terms of the three known aspects of availability, affordability and quality & safety. Moreover, a detailed analysis of food insecurity ...
This study analyzes developing countries’ progress towards meeting MDG 1, with a focus on hunger and poverty. Based on a sample of 35 developing Asian and sub-Saharan African countries, we examine the relationship between ...
Global value chains dominate international production, world trade and investment flows today. This globalization of production processes allows different stages of production to take place in different geographical ...
Early Childbearing is a major social and public health concern. Empirical studies have focused on both the consequences and causes of early childbearing. Much of the empirical work has focused on the impact of early ...
Social networks play an important role in human interactions. It is possible for social differentiation and segregation to discourage links that are desirable from an efficiency point of view, or for social matches to ...
Early life factors play an important role in the foetal development as stated by Barker’s “womb with a view” hypothesis. This study explores how prenatal exposure to Ramadan, the month of fasting, has an impact on the ...
A detailed study of a market in Lahore was conducted to create a map of the socioeconomic network of different retailers located in this particular area. The aim was to distinguish various ways in which these individual ...
Social networks play an important role in human interactions. It is possible for social
differentiation and segregation to discourage links that are desirable from an efficiency point of view, or for social matches to ...
This study builds up a theoretical model to explore the combined e§ect of parental absenteeism due to emigration of unskilled labor and remittances on the economic growth in the source country through the channel of human ...
We conduct a study which tests the impact of Cognitive Reflection on decision making theories of time and risk preferences. Decision theorists have suggest that people make lottery decisions according to the expected maximum ...
Arrow (1963) established that a group cannot always reach logically consistent collective outcome. Subsequently many developments like premise based, conclusion based and distance based methods have emerged in literature ...