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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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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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Pakistan’s Wage Structure, during 1990-91–2006-07

Irfan, Mohammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009

This paper attempts to document changes in the wage levels of different categories of workers employed in various segments of the labour market during the period 1990-91–2006-07, according to the information given in the labour force surveys. Wage structure can be analysed from different...

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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05

Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009

/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It employs Gini coefficient to measure inequalities …

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Impact of Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting Technology on Women Well-being in Hilly and Fragile Areas: Evidence from Pakistan

Ahmed, Ajaz; Mustafa, Usman; Nasir, Muhammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2011

affected areas of Bagh and Battagram villages of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan … earthquake prone, hilly, and rural areas which are receiving comparatively high rain fall in Pakistan. …

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The Determinants of Food Prices: A Case Study of Pakistan

Ahsan, Henna; Iftikhar, Zainab; Kemal, M. Ali - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2011

the demand- and supply-side factors that affect food prices in Pakistan. Long-run relationship is analysed using the …

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Foreign Aid and Growth Nexus in Pakistan: The Role of Macroeconomic Policies

Javid, Muhammad; Qayyum, Abdul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2011

Despite receiving large quantities of foreign aid, Pakistan, like many other developing countries, has remained … growth in Pakistan, though conditionally so, i.e., if based on sound macroeconomic policies. …

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