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  • Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Online Shopping in Pakistan 
    Samra Chaudary; Muhammad Abdul Rehman; Sehrish Nisar (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    The rapid growth of the Internet and its extended reach has helped developing countries adopt e-commerce, thus enabling consumers to make transactions worldwide. This study identifies the factors related to online shopping ...
  • Knowledge Management Practices in Pakistan’s Telecom Services Sector 
    Danial Hassan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    Employee turnover has become a serious problem in knowledge-intensive industries such as telecommunications, where the resulting knowledge loss affects process safety and quality. This study examines knowledge management ...
  • EDUCATION REFORM IN PUNJAB A DECENTRALISED GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 
    MUHAMMAD AHSAN RANA (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-05)
    Improving the quality of public sector education and increasing its coverage is a complex challenge in Pakistan mainly because of the very large number of schools, inherently diverse requirements of various levels and types ...
  • POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY IN PAKISTAN AN ASSESSMENT OF PRMP 2003-2008 
    MUNEER AHMAD (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-05)
    The government of Punjab initiated many measures to reorient its administration in the late 1990s to improve service delivery to the poor. In late 2003 the government of Punjab sought ADB’s support for public resource ...
  • WHY DOES PAKISTAN REQUIRE A MORE CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM 
    ABID ALI; TARIQ ABDULLAH (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-05)
    Clean Development is intended to tackle the dumping of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that has accompanied fossil fuel driven development in both countries of the North and the South. Per capita GHG emissions are ...
  • LANGUAGE POLICY, LANGUAGES IN EDUCATION, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION IN PAKISTAN 
    TAYYABA TAMIM (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-05)
    The paper is based on some key findings of a wider 3-year research study funded by Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP). This in-depth qualitative study used multiple case study method to capture ...
  • Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan 
    Hamna Ahmed; Sahar Amjad Sheikh (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    The objective of this study is to understand why parents in rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan, choose to send their children to private schools when free public schools are available. The study utilizes the Privatization in ...
  • The Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Markets in Pakistan An Empirical Analysis 
    Rizwana Bashir; Rabia Shakir; Badar Ashfaq; Atif Hassan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the empirical relationship between spot and forward exchange rate efficiency with reference to Pakistan and the efficiency of its foreign exchange market. We use monthly data from the State Bank of ...
  • Terms-of-Trade Volatility and Inflation in Pakistan 
    Kiran Ijaz; Muhammad Zakaria; Bashir A. Fida (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This empirical study examines the effects of terms-of-trade (TOT) volatility on inflation in Pakistan, using annual data for the period 1972 to 2012. The results show that TOT volatility has a significant negative effect ...
  • The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade A Panel Study on Pakistan’s Trading Partners 
    Abdul Jalil Khan; Parvez Azim; Shabib Haider Syed (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the impact of domestic and foreign currency-valued exchange rate volatility on the export and import demand functions with reference to Pakistan’s trading partners. We use GARCH-based exchange rate ...
  • Can Analysts Really Forecast Evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Haris Bin Jamil; Aisha Ghazi Aurakzai; Muhammad Subayyal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study examines the impact of analysts’ recommendations on stock prices listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange for the period 2006–12. The recommendations are extracted from the daily Morning Shout report published by ...
  • The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Firm Entry and Exit in Punjab, Pakistan 
    Marjan Nasir (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study focuses on the impact of trade liberalization on firm entry and exit in Punjab’s export manufacturing sector over the decade 2001–10. As far as the province’s export industries are concerned, real exchange rate ...
  • Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan 
    Hamna Ahmed; Sahar Amjad Sheikh (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    The objective of this study is to understand why parents in rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan, choose to send their children to private schools when free public schools are available. The study utilizes the Privatization in ...
  • The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade 
    Abdul Jalil Khan; Parvez Azim; Shabib Haider Syed (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the impact of domestic and foreign currency-valued exchange rate volatility on the export and import demand functions with reference to Pakistan’s trading partners. We use GARCH-based exchange rate ...
  • Can Analysts Really Forecast? Evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Haris Bin Jamil; Aisha Ghazi Aurakzai; Muhammad Subayyal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study examines the impact of analysts’ recommendations on stock prices listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange for the period 2006–12. The recommendations are extracted from the daily Morning Shout report published by ...
  • The Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Markets in Pakistan 
    Rizwana Bashir; Rabia Shakir; Badar Ashfaq; Atif Hassan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the empirical relationship between spot and forward exchange rate efficiency with reference to Pakistan and the efficiency of its foreign exchange market. We use monthly data from the State Bank of ...
  • Terms-of-Trade Volatility and Inflation in Pakistan 
    Kiran Ijaz; Muhammad Zakaria; Bashir A; Fida (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This empirical study examines the effects of terms-of-trade (TOT) volatility on inflation in Pakistan, using annual data for the period 1972 to 2012. The results show that TOT volatility has a significant negative effect ...
  • The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Firm Entry and Exit in Punjab, Pakistan 
    Marjan Nasir (2014-06)
    This study focuses on the impact of trade liberalization on firm entry and exit in Punjab’s export manufacturing sector over the decade 2001–10. As far as the province’s export industries are concerned, real exchange rate ...
  • Pakistan’s Parallel Foreign Exchange Market 
    Asma Khalid* (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper seeks to describe and analyze the parallel foreign exchange (FX) market in Pakistan. The very nature of this market implies that there is little formal documentation or data to describe it, and so any assessment ...
  • From Fear of Floating to Benign Neglect 
    Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi; Bushra Naqvi; Nawazish Mirza (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    One of the most pressing issues concerning policymakers today is the choice of an exchange rate regime. Despite the intricacies of this problem, monetary authorities could narrow down their list of options if they were to ...

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