This study investigates the impact of humanitarian military interventions (HMIs) on conflict termination, conflict escalation, economic output and democratic performance using panel data on 144 countries covering time-period of 1960-2018. There is no scholarly consensus about whether HMIs are an...

This study investigates the impact of domestic and foreign currency-valued exchange rate volatility on the export and import demand functions with reference to Pakistan’s trading partners. We use GARCH-based exchange rate volatilities and the least-squares dummy variable technique with...

Study utilizes cointegration and vector error correction analysis to determination the long and short run dynamics between electricity demand and its determinants. Study uses time series data for Pakistan from 1970 to 2010. Johansen cointegration test indicate that variables integrate in the...

The main objective of the study is quantification of the impact of change in climate normals in order to have a viable and sustained development of the agricultural sector both at the regional and country level. A one-way fixed effect panel model for eleven districts over the time horizon...

The urbanization process and causality between urbanization and economic development are very enigmatic. This causal relationship deviates enormously across different economies. Contrary to the conventional literature, we found a U-shaped quadratic relationship between urbanization and growth...

This paper analyzes the behavior of FDI in South Asian countries using panel data for the period 1970-2004. We applied fixed effects model to identify the factors that determine FDI inflows. The analysis shows that GDP, trade openness, real exchange rate, labor force and health expenditures...

This paper analyzes the importance of government policies in determining private investment in Pakistan. The empirical results show that public sector investment, changes in bank credit to the private sector and degree of capacity in the economy are playing an important role in the determination...