Foremost, I would like to thank Almighty God for giving me the strength and devotion to carry out this research work. I owe my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Ms. Rabia Ikram for her constant support and guidance. A ...

In this study, we investigate bargaining power under risk and uncertainty among 70 rural couples of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan. We use risk and uncertainty experiments conducted individually and jointly with spouses to estimate ...

In a developing country, household’s economic conditions make parents treat their sons and daughters differently. Pakistan’s global ranking in terms of gender gap out of 144 countries in economic participation, educational ...

Investment in human capital has the potential to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s performance on this front has been poor with 19% of the primary school age children being out of ...

Abstract This study models the role of early childhood health investments in economic growth through human capital formation in an overlapping generation model. We assume that human capital depends on health status during ...

In this paper, we have conducted a survey of 225 urban borrowing groups at Akhuwat (interest free microfinance bank) in Lahore, Pakistan. We have looked at the effects of screening, monitoring, group pressure and social ...

The word middle class is the most commonly used word in social sciences but it has no absolute or broadly accepted definition. The purpose of this research is to investigate the phenomenon of the rise of Middle Class in ...

The main aim of this research is to investigate and analyze the impact of remittances on poverty levels of Pakistan during the time period of 2000-2015 and to test if this impact changed over the period covered as growth ...

The phenomenal pace of economic development in East Asia, whereby it has transformed from an underdeveloped region in the late 1960s into a prosperous region in only three decades, has been the subject of considerable ...

Microfinance institutions are moving towards commercialization in an effort to become sustainable and profit oriented. There are certain underlying external factors contributing towards the social and financial performance ...