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  • Structural Adjustment and Health in Pakistan 
    Shahrukh Rafi Khan; Sajid Kazmi (© Lahore School of Economics, 1998-12)
  • Structural Adjustment, Labour and the Poor in Pakistan 
    Shahrukh Rafi Khan; Safiya Aftab (© Lahore School of Economics, 1997-06)
    In this paper we cite evidence regarding the likely impact of IMF/World Bank policies on labour and the poor in Pakistan. Our findings show that since the 1987 bout of structural adjustment, public sector employment has ...
  • Struggling against the Odds of Poverty, Access, and Gender: Secondary Schooling for Girls in Pakistan 
    Zeba A. Sathar; Asif Wazir; Maqsood Sadiq (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    While schooling outcomes for girls have improved over the period 2001–11, progress has been uneven within Pakistan. Rural girls lag far behind urban girls and progress across the provinces remains unequal. The transition ...
  • A Study on Saving Functions for Pakistan: The Use and Limitations of Econometric Methods 
    Aqdas Ali Kazmi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2001-12)
  • Surplus Education and Earnings Differentials in Pakistan: A Quantile Regression Analysis 
    Maqbool H. Sial; Ghulam Sarwar; Mubashra Saeed (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 24;No.2, 2019)
    This study empirically investigates the effect of surplus education on the earnings distribution in Pakistan using quantile regression. The method of realized matches is used to measure the required level of education in ...
  • Sustainability of Feed-based Aquaculture in Bangladesh 
    Md. Rais Uddin Mian (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    Six carp and carp based culture technologies were selected to examine the sustainability of supplementary feed-based aquaculture through availability of domestic feeds compared to the total requirement in Bangladesh. ...
  • Sustainable Development through Science and Technology 
    Tariq Husain (© Lahore School of Economics, 2002-06)
    After 50 years of nationhood, about 60 million Pakistani citizens still live in absolute poverty which is a condition so debasing that it robs the poor of the very potential of their genes. Illiteracy, malnutrition, ...
  • Tax Treatment of Interest 
    Unknown author (© Lahore School of Economics, 2002-06)
  • Technical & Vocational Training in Pakistan 
    Shahid Kardar (© Lahore School of Economics, 1997-12)
  • Technical Efficiency and its Determinants in Potato Production, Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan 
    Abedullah; Khuda Bakhsh and Bashir Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-12)
    Potato cultivation accounts for 5.71 percent in total cropped area of the Punjab province and it supplements the diet of the growing population at lower prices as compared to grains, meat and chicken. Data from 100 farmers, ...
  • Technical Efficiency of Some Selected Manufacturing Industries in Bangladesh 
    Md. Azizul Baten; Masud Rana; Sumonkanti Das; Md. Abdul Khaleque (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-12)
    This paper investigates the technical efficiency of selected manufacturing industries of Bangladesh using a stochastic frontier production function approach suggested by Battese and Coelli (1992) applied to panel data. A ...
  • Technology in the Sialkot Gloves Manufacturing Sector 
    Saba Firdousi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-09)
    This paper uses a unique sample of sports glove manufacturers from Sialkot to develop an index of technological sophistication. The data shows that total factor productivity (TFP) and total revenue productivity (TRP) cluster ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Testing for Market Efficiency in Emerging Markets 
    Khalid Mustafa; Mohammed Nishat (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    This paper investigates the efficiency of the Karachi stock exchange (KSE) with corrections for thin trading and non-linearity as suggested by Miller, Muthuswamy and Whaley (1994). Daily, weekly, and monthly data on ...
  • Testing the Dynamic Linkages of the Pakistani Stock Market with Regional and Global Markets 
    Zohaib Aziz; Javed Iqbal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017)
    This article examines the dynamic linkages between Pakistan’s emerging stock market and (i) the US market and (ii) the regional markets of India and Japan. Using data for the daily returns and volatility spillovers of ...
  • Testing the Governance-Productivity Nexus for Emerging Asian Countries 
    Ghulam Mustafa; Muhammad Jamil (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018)
    This paper presents panel data estimates of the relationship between governance, aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth for 12 Asian economies between 1996 and 2013. Our results ...
  • The Textiles and Garments Sector 
    Naved Hamid; Ijaz Nabi; Rafia Zafar (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    The textiles and garments (T&G) sector accounts for almost 50% of Pakistan’s exports and is the largest component of manufacturing. T&G sector, because of recent favorable developments for the industry in Pakistan and the ...
  • Theory at Odds with Best Practice 
    Irfan ul Haque (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The problems that afflict Pakistan’s manufacturing sector are widely known. It is also recognized that the current state of affairs must change, but there is little agreement as to what that might entail. The lack of ...
  • Toward a Competitive Pakistan 
    Irfan ul Haque (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper’s basic premise is that an improvement in Pakistan’s export performance is crucial to raising economic growth. After examining the reasons generally given for Pakistan’s poor export performance, we conclude that ...

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