agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agricultural products (Eaton and Shepherd 2001). As … such, it offers a solution to a number of production and marketing problems that lead to low farm productivity and … how contract growing can address various marketing and production problems in the farm sector. This is demonstrated in …

-term trends. Our results show that privatization and government restructuring of state-owned banks lead to substantial short …

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 … framework is then employed to analyze the effect of the standard policy prescriptions, i.e., urban employment subsidy and a … rural income subsidy on migration and urban employment. Also, the welfare effect of a subsidy transfer from urban to rural …