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  • Provincial Rights and Responsibilities 
    Shahid Javed Burki (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This article suggests that Pakistan requires a different development paradigm. The analysis begins by giving a quick overview of some of the larger economies of the region and assesses the divisions that have developed ...
  • The Endemic Crisis of Federalism in Pakistan 
    Raza Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the issue of federalism in Pakistan. It begins with an analysis of the conceptual paradigms of federalism and goes on to examine the history of federalism in Pakistan. The paper goes on to discuss the ...
  • Estimating Residential Electricity Demand Responses in Pakistan’s Punjab 
    Theresa Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    In this paper, we aim to understand residential electricity demand responses to changes in income, in order to assist policymakers in managing demand for electricity and evaluating tariff increases associated with ...
  • Pakistan: Indus Basin Water Strategy – Past, Present and Future 
    Shahid Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the Indus Basin Water Strategy for Pakistan. It begins with a historical overview of the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), the Indus Basin Replacement Works (1960-1980) and the Indus Basin Salinity ...
  • Can Pakistan Get Out of the Low Tax-to-GDP Trap 
    Aisha Ghaus Pasha (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper explores how Pakistan can get out of the low-tax-to-GDP trap and come close to achieving its revenue targets. Examining the trend factors influencing the trend in total and individual tax-to-GDP ratios over a ...
  • Asymmetric Behavior of Inflation Uncertainty and Friedman-Ball Hypothesi 
    Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi; Bushra Naqvi (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    This paper is a first attempt to measure and analyze inflation uncertainty in Pakistan. It makes several contributions to the literature. In the first stage, using quarterly data from 1976:01 to 2008:02, we model inflation ...
  • Evaluation of Rice Markets Integration in Bangladesh 
    Mohammad Ismail Hossain; Wim Verbeke (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    The liberalization of the agricultural sector in general and the rice subsector in particular has been a major component of Bangladesh’s structural adjustment program initiated in 1992. However, the government has ...
  • Adopting Inflation Targeting in Pakistan 
    Nadia Saleem (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    The objective of this paper is to assess the conditions for inflation targeting in Pakistan. The recent inflationary surge in Pakistan calls for rethinking monetary policy afresh. This paper argues the case for ...
  • Does Trade Openness Reduce Inflation 
    Tahir Mukhtar (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    One of the more celebrated propositions found in international trade is the case that trade liberalization is associated with declining prices, so that protectionism is inflationary. In line with this view, Romer (1993) ...
  • A Note on the Pricing of Liquidity in Stock Returns 
    Nawazish Mirza (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    Keynes (1930) proposed that an asset is more liquid than another “if it is more certainly realisable at short notice without loss” (vol. II, p. 67). This definition suggests that the liquidity of an asset is twofold. First, ...
  • Fiscal Marksmanship in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Zakaria; Shujat Ali (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    Using Theil’s inequality coefficient based on the mean square prediction error, this paper evaluates the forecasting efficiency of the central government budget and revised budget estimates in Pakistan for the period 1987/88 ...
  • Measurement and Decomposition of Consumption Inequality in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Idrees; Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    This paper shows that inequality in consumption expenditure in Pakistan improved slightly between 1992/93 and 2004/05, and that the extent of inequality in food consumption has remained substantially lower than in ...
  • Prospects for Cooperative Marketing among Surgical Instrument Producers in Pakistan 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    Given that clustered firms in developing countries generally sell their goods through multinational firms, we seek to determine under what conditions might clustered surgical instrument firms band together and form a ...
  • Comparative Advantage of Major Crops Production in Punjab 
    Muhammad A. Quddus; Usman Mustafa (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This study uses data from 1999/2000 to 2004/05 to determine the relative efficiency of major crops (wheat, rice, sugarcane, and cotton) in Punjab (Pakistan) and their comparative advantage in international trade as measured ...
  • The Trade Potential of Pakistan 
    Nazia Gul; Hafiz M. Yasin (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This paper attempts to estimate Pakistan’s trade potential, using the gravity model of trade. Panel data for the period 1981-2005 across 42 countries is employed in the analysis. The coefficients obtained from the model ...
  • Impact of Monetary and Macroeconomic Factors on Wheat Prices in Pakistan 
    Khalid Mushtaq; Abdul Ghafoor; Abedullah; Farhan Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of monetary and macroeconomic factors on real wheat prices in Pakistan for the period 1976-2010, using Johansen’s co-integration approach. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test reveals ...
  • The Reserve Equation and the Analytics of Pakistan’s Monetary Policy 
    Rubina Hassan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This paper deals with the computation and analysis of some fundamental reserve aggregates and associated monetary statistics, which impart important information regarding the design and conduct of monetary policy at the ...
  • The Role of Education and Income in Poverty Alleviation 
    Pervez Zamurrad Janjua; Usman Ahmed Kamal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    The existing literature on education and poverty considers mostly primary data from an income point of view. However, the benefits of education vary from a direct income effect to positive externalities, which can help ...
  • Reconstructing the Performance of Pakistan’s Political Economy 
    Inayat Ullah Mangla (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This paper looks at the major factors limiting economic growth in Pakistan. The paper then analyzes the structural problems faced by Pakistan today and goes on to discuss the challenges facing monetary policy makers in ...
  • The Capital Account and Pakistani Rupee Convertibility 
    Irfan ul Haque (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    Pakistan embarked on the liberalization of its capital account more than two decades ago. Today, it is an economy with a capital account that is, by and large, free of restrictions, and a convertible currency. However, ...

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