, adjusted for inflation, yields a 0.7 percent trend growth rate in real wages for the 1990-07 period. Real wage growth rate at … avoided. In contrast, there hardly has been any sizeable positive impact on the real wages of the informal sector workers …

An examination of the public pension and social security schemes in Pakistan reveals that the provision of regular … needs of the increasing elderly population demands an improvement of the support base and social security system in Pakistan …

This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would … between the two countries under three alternative trade regimes : a) under an FTA between India and Pakistan, b) under SAFTA …, and c) under a grant of mostfavoured nation (MFN) to India by Pakistan. We conduct simple welfare analysis for wheat, on …

After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan …

unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. We have examined the determinants of urban poverty in Sargodha, a medium-size city of … Pakistan. The analysis is based on the survey of 330 households. Results suggest that employment in public sector, investment …