Global value chains dominate international production, world trade and investment flows today. This globalization of production processes allows different stages of production to take place in different geographical ...

Social networks play an important role in human interactions. It is possible for social differentiation and segregation to discourage links that are desirable from an efficiency point of view, or for social matches to ...

Social networks play an important role in human interactions. It is possible for social differentiation and segregation to discourage links that are desirable from an efficiency point of view, or for social matches to ...

We conduct a study which tests the impact of Cognitive Reflection on decision making theories of time and risk preferences. Decision theorists have suggest that people make lottery decisions according to the expected maximum ...

This paper analyzes the impact of ethnic polarization in triggering the natural resource curse which consequently results in higher levels of income inequality. We use a dynamic inÖnite time horizon model in a general ...

The paper looks into joint determination of corruption and development where there is hierarchial bureaucratic setup; tier one-bureaucrat and tier two bureaucrats. Corruption happens at two level once when tier one ...

According to the UNICEF Report (2013), the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Pakistan is very high as opposed to the MDG 5 target1. This high maternal mortality can be reduced considerably if the females utilize the required ...

We study the effects of Female Secondary School Stipend Program (FSSSP), a component of Punjab Education Sector Reform Program (PERSP) on school enrollment, middle and high school completion, marriage and fertility outcomes ...

Kasur is a district of Central Punjab in Pakistan. It has long standing tradition of tanning and thus it houses more than 240 tanneries. These tanneries produce huge amount of wastewater which contains different obnoxious ...