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  • Pakistan’s Health Care Under Structural Adjustment 
    Nina Gera (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2003-12)
    The health sector in Pakistan is replete with multifarious problems. It is not responding to the needs of the masses in a way that would provide high-quality care to all in need. Despite the announcements our governments ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pakistan’s Power Crisis: How Did We Get Here? 
    Kamal A. Munir; Salman Khalid (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-09)
    This article has a rather modest aim. In contrast to most analyses that abound, it submits that Pakistan’s energy crisis stems primarily from a suboptimal policy and only secondarily from governance issues. This does not ...
  • Pakistan’s Productivity Performance and TFP Trends, 1980–2015: Cause for Real Concern 
    Rashid Amjad; Namra Awais (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-09)
    This paper reviews Pakistan’s productivity performance over the last 35 years (1980–2015) and identifies factors that help explain the declining trend in labor productivity and total factor productivity (TFP), both of which ...
  • Pakistan’s Quest for a New Growth Vent: Lessons from History 
    Ijaz Nabi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-09)
    This article argues that a new growth vent in Pakistan requires tapping into external lucrative markets in a manner that will create multiple entre-ports for growth. Such a growth vent will enable the country to achieve a ...
  • Pakistan’s Textiles and Anti-Dumping Laws 
    Talat Yazdani (© Lahore School of Economics, 1999-12)
    Textile is one of the most heavily protected sector in developed countries. This paper addresses the issue of anti-dumping measures, a new form of trade restriction. Protectionism is still common place in textiles, tariffs ...
  • A Panel Data Analysis of Electricity Demand in Pakistan 
    Azam Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the economy-wide demand and the firm level demand for electricity in Pakistan. The economy wide estimation of electricity demand uses panel data from 63 countries from 1998-2008, and finds that the ...
  • The Paradigm Shift in the Pakistan Stock Exchange’s Financial Integration Post-FTA and CPEC 
    Abdul Wahid; Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018)
    This paper examines whether regional connectivity causes return and volatility spillovers and the co-movement of stock exchanges to shift from international to regional markets. Using the China-Pakistan free trade ...
  • Patronage in Rural Punjab: Evidence from a New Household Survey Dataset 
    Azam Chaudhry; Kate Vyborny (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    The intervention of local elites is often cited as an impediment to policy implementation in many developing countries. In this paper, we present initial results from an original primary household dataset from eight ...
  • Patterns of Export Diversification 
    Hamna Ahmed; Naved Hamid (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper examines historical trends in the diversification of exports in Pakistan, using the Hirschman index to quantify the degree of export diversification. We analyze the structure of exports through the lens of ...
  • Performance of Commercial Banks in Pakistan: A Study in Risk Analysis 
    Salman Ahmad (© Lahore School of Economics, 2002-12)
  • Policy Measures for the Economic Challenges Ahead 
    Shahid Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    Pakistan faces economic challenges in the summer of 2011 with regard to its balance of payments and its public finances, resulting primarily from the suspension of an ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, ...
  • A Policy Move towards Sustainable Urban Transport in Pakistan: Measuring the Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts of Lahore BRT System 
    Irem Batool; Muhammad Irshad; Muhammad Abid (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 25;No.1, 2020)
    We examine the impacts of a sustainable urban transport initiative, the first Bus Rapid Transit System launched in Lahore, Pakistan in year 2013. We measure the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the BRT using a ...
  • Political Economy of Fiscal Policy in Pakistan 
    M. Abdul Mateen Khan (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2003-06)
  • The Political Economy of Industrial Policy 
    Matthew McCartney (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    The textiles industry in Pakistan has failed to fulfill its “historical mission,” whether judged in terms of promoting rapid and sustained economic growth, reducing poverty, or providing employment to young women and so ...
  • Population Growth - The Social Development and Poverty Dimension 
    M.S. Jillani (© Lahore School of Economics, 1999-06)
  • Population Growth and Economic Development 
    Khalid Mushtaq (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-12)
    This paper examines the existence of a long-run relationship between population and per capita income in Pakistan for the period 1960-2001 using cointegration analysis. Unit root results show that population is integrated ...
  • Postmodernism/Poststructuralism: A Theoretical Perspective 
    Unknown author (© Lahore School of Economics, 2000-06)
  • Poverty in Pakistan: A Region-Specific Analysis 
    Muhammad Idrees (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017)
    Most of the earlier literature on poverty in Pakistan uses a single poverty line for the whole country or, at most, relies on a rural-urban divide. This segmentation fails to incorporate differences across provinces. ...
  • Poverty Reduction and Human Development: Issues and Strategy 
    Muhammad Aslam Khan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2001-12)
    The paper assesses trends in poverty and improvements in the material conditions of life of millions of people living in poverty and human deprivation. It discusses the growth and poverty dimensions and associated ...

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