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 ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth for high income countries. The study focuses on both indirect finance and direct finance, separately as well as jointly. ...

This study has a twofold objective: (i) to investigate the determinants of firm growth, specifically the extent to which finance constrains enterprise growth; and (ii) to explore the determinants of external financial ...

There has been considerable discussion on the drivers of economic growth in East Asia. While most studies recognize that capital accumulation and macroeconomic management were critical in hastening growth, few have ...

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 ...

This study analyzes the future prospects of wheat production in Pakistan. Parameters of the forecasting model are obtained by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function for wheat, while future values of various inputs ...

This paper reviews the trends of two types of foreign capital inflows, namely foreign aid and foreign private investment, to Pakistan. Like other developing countries, the volume of foreign aid to Pakistan has been ...

This study uses the forward-looking rule and backward-looking Taylor rule to investigate the conduct of monetary policy in Pakistan during 1971–2011. We compare the pre- and post-reform periods, and find that the estimates ...