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  • ON IMPROVING SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN 
    ASAD ZAMAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    How do we arrest the decline of the social sciences in Pakistan? Is it a matter of money or one of sending more students to the West who might then return to teaching at the local universities? In this article I argue ...
  • CRITICAL METHODOLOGY IN POLICY ANALYSIS CRITICAL REALIST APPROACH 
    AURANGZEB SYED (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    Most mainstream research in social science is dominated by positivist methodologies such as regression analysis and pays little attention to the larger philosophical considerations of knowledge, thus denying any space ...
  • GLOBALIZATION DRIVEN POLICIES IN AGRICULTURE AN IMPACT ANALYSIS 
    USMAN MUSTAFA; ABDUL QUDDUS (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    World agriculture is changing fast under the new rules of the game, with the WTO agreement on agriculture. The present study is designed to critically analyze the impacts of trade liberalization on agriculture, food ...
  • URBANIZATION, GLOBALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL LAGS IN PAKISTAN 
    MOHAMMAD A. QADEER (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    Pakistan is an urbanized society, spatially and materially. Urban modes of living have spread. Globalization is further accelerating the urbanization of the society. While the society is being strung into the urban modes ...
  • AN HISTORICAL EVALUATION OF “EXPORTLED GROWTH” POLICY IN PAKISTAN 
    MOHAMMAD AFZAL; KARAMAT ALI (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    An historical review of Pakistan’s trade history shows that economy had led exports more than the export led the economy. Economic growth has responded to the emphasis on domestic market rather than on trade. Economic ...
  • STATE OF THE UNION SOCIAL AUDIT OF GOVERNANCE IN UC BHANGALI 2007 
    MUNEER AHMAD (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    This article seeks to ascertain the impact of devolution on the everyday life of the residents of Union Council Bhangali. Information is based primarily on a sample survey of the population. Limited knowledge of and ...
  • Size and Value Premium in Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Nawazish Mirza; Saima Shahid (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study evaluates the ability of the Fama and French Three Factor model to explain a cross section of stock returns in the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Following Fama and French factor approach, we sorted six portfolios ...
  • An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Financial Development in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Tahir (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study attempts to discern the relationship between economic and financial development in Pakistan for the period 1973 - 2006. Vector error-correction modeling is used to identify the causality between economic and ...
  • Export-Led Growth Hypothesis in Pakistan 
    Saima Siddiqui; Sameena Zehra; Sadia Majeed; Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    Trade is presumed to act as a catalyst to economic growth. This paper reinvestigates the export-led growth hypothesis in Pakistan by using annual time series data on exports, imports, terms of trade, and the labor force ...
  • Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on Profitability 
    Muhammad Abdul Majid Makki; Suleman Aziz Lodhi (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital efficiency and the firm's profitability. The importance of intellectual capital (IC) and the related philosophy of the knowledge economy ...
  • Causality between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth 
    Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye; Sana Riaz (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study seeks to determine the direction of causality between energy consumption (EC) and economic growth (EG), using annual data from 1971 to 2007. In our empirical analysis, we implement a bounds-testing approach to ...
  • Measuring Volatility of Inflation in Pakistan 
    Nadia Saleem (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    The available evidence in Pakistan suggests that inflation is a monetary phenomena. This paper examines the relationship between the determinants of inflation and its volatility by using monthly data for 1990:M1-2007:M5. ...
  • Trade Liberalization and the Lead Role of Human Capital and Job Attributes in Wage Determination 
    Bushra Yasmin (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study analyzes the role of human capital and job attributes, i.e., supply-side determinants, in determining wages in a period of trade liberalization. Using the Mincerian earning function and based on data from the ...
  • The Impact of Socioeconomic and Demographic Variables on Poverty: 
    Imran Sharif Chaudhry; Shahnawaz Malik; Abo ul Hassan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    Poverty is a complex phenomenon based on a network of interlocking economic, social, political, and demographic factors. An understanding of the extent, nature, and determinants of rural poverty is a precondition for ...
  • Economic Value of Irrigation Water: Evidence from a Punjab Canal 
    Ijaz Hussain; Maqbool H. Sial; Zakir Hussain; Waqar Akram (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study is based on data from a cross sectional survey of 120 farms located along the Mithaluck irrigation canal in central Punjab. The data collected were analyzed using (i) the residual imputation method, and (ii) the ...
  • An Empirical Investigation of the Causal Relationship among Monetary Variables and Equity Market Returns 
    Arshad Hasan; M. Tariq Javed (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study explores the long-term dynamic relationship between equity prices and monetary variables for the period June 1998 to June 2008. Monetary variables include money supply, treasury bill rates, foreign exchange ...
  • Cointegration and Causality 
    Abdul Ghafoor; Khalid Mustafa; Khalid Mushtaq; Abedullah (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    Mangoes are one of Pakistan’s most important fruits; the country is the world’s fourth largest producer and exporter of mangoes. Integrated markets are those where price signals are transferred from one to another, allowing ...
  • The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Cost of Equity 
    Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah; Safdar Ali Butt (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study examines the impact of the quality of corporate governance, as measured by a specially constructed corporate governance index, on the expected cost of equity calculated using the capital asset pricing model ...
  • The Role of Satellite Stock Exchanges 
    Jamshed Y. Uppal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    In many countries, capital markets are often served by multiple stock exchanges, typically with one national or dominant exchange and several regional or satellite exchanges. While multi¬ple exchanges create a competitive ...
  • An Analysis of Host Country Characteristics that Determine FDI in Developing Countries 
    Muhammad Tariq Majeed; Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    This paper analyzes a range of host country characteristics that determine foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries, using panel data on 72 countries for the period 1970-2008. Keeping in view the ...

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