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Building Genuine Islamic Financial Institutions

Zaman, Asad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014

Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial institutions are designed to support the process of accumulation of wealth, which is at the heart...

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Capturing Willingness to Pay and Its Determinants for Improved Solid Waste Management

Mustafa, Usman; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Haq, Miraj ul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014

including Pakistan. Large masses living in this world particularly South Asian country (that is home to over one fifth of the … world’s population) is still striving for it. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exclusion to that state. The … questionnaire from both rural and urban regions of district Abbottabad, Pakistan at HHs premises. The objective was to discover the …

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'Home Biases', 19th Century Style

Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...

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Traditional Water Harvesting for Domestic Use: Potential and Relevance of Village Tanks in Gujarat's Desert Region

Das, Keshab - eSocialSciences - 2008

Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the relevance and explores possible modernisation/revival of talavas (tanks) in two villages of...

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Farmersâ€™ Preferences for Climate-Smart Agriculture: An Assessment in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Taneja, Garima; Pal, Barun Deb; Joshi, Pramod K.; … - eSocialSciences - 2014

This study was undertaken to assess farmersâ€™ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmersâ€™ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies and other interventions, scoring was used...

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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products

Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...

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Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector

Acharya, Viral V; Rajan, Raghuram G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...

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Modelling Pakistan's economy : forecasting and policy simulations

Naqvi, Syed Nawab Haider; Ahmed, Ather Maqsood - 1986 - Reprinted

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Human development report for Pakistan : final draft

Burney, Nadeem A. (contributor) - 1991

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Final PIDE input-output table of Pakistan's economy : 1975 - 76

Saleem, Mohammad (contributor) - 1985

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