The socio-economic circumstances of land owning individuals are closely tied to the security of their land rights. The positive impact of such rights has been widely addressed in previous studies. However, there is relatively ...

By 2025 the water-stressed regions across the globe will be housing two thirds of the world’s population. (UNEP, 2000). To cater to the needs of this ever-increasing population there is an additional burden on the countries ...

Human displacements, even development-induced, tend to decrease the well-being of the displaced households by making them more vulnerable to poverty. The evidence in this context primarily pertains to economic impacts of ...

The major aim of this study is to explore the determinants of women’s wellbeing. More specifically the study examines whether Women’s Personal Characteristics, Physical and Institutional Environment and Attitudes and Beliefs ...

This thesis investigates working conditions of female live-out domestic workers and their impact on their non-economic wellbeing in Pakistan’s context. This study is especially important because the interaction between ...

This study explores the effect of Punjab Government’s credit disbursement initiative to small farmers in terms of behavioral shift towards the use of inputs and willingness to avail credit from formal financial sources. ...

Right to information (RTI) laws have been passed by over a hundred countries in the last four to five decades, allowing citizens in these countries to access government held information including policies, budgets and ...

In this study, we played a household allocation game to explore the impact of economic entitlements on intra-household altruistic choices among spouses. Extra-lab experiment was used and subjects were studied under two ...

The lack of access to credit largely impedes economic prosperity and thus causing people to remain trapped in poverty for sustained period of times. In this regard, microcredit has played a crucial role in improving the ...

Violence or as termed in this study as Violent Extremism (VE) covers all forms of violence including terrorism (Extreme Violence, EV), political violence and religious and sectarian violence. Violence in any society is an ...