Pakistan has a variety of privately managed schools. Inspired by the corporate model large school systems offer franchise to small schools in the name of better quality education, leading to better market acceptability. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound and widespread negative impact on the lives of millions of households around the globe. Particularly, hard hit were those households who were already marginalized and the beneficiaries ...

The COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities in global economies impacting the marginalised communities the most. The lockdowns during the COVID has disrupted the means of credit interventions leading to increase in vulnerabilities ...

The definition and criteria for productive and meaningful economic and social participation is changing as a transformative impact of digital proliferation. This mandates development of multiple transversal literacies or ...

This study looked at the impact of rural vs urban residence on married women’s (aged 15-49) decision making power in Pakistani households, in the whole country and each of its provinces. By using multiple regression, the ...

This thesis aims to highlight the impact of women’s property rights on their empowerment and the potential benefits that can be gained through effective enforcement of property rights. It further investigates the moderating ...