The paper empirically investigates the effects of various economic, legal, meteorological and technical factors in explaining the theft from electric utilities in Pakistan. We obtained elasticity of electricity theft with respect to different variables mentioned. Panel data from nine utilities...

Sustainable Economic Development through renewable energy.ResearchSustainable Economic development in the rural areas.

The past two decades have witnessed many episodes of economic reform across the developing world. Although initiated with popular enthusiasm, sustaining and completing these reform packages has turned out to be much more difficult, with policymakers having to `walk the line' between success and...

Most of the currently existing endogenous growth models were developed within and for industrial countries, i.e. for a well endowed world. Most developing countries, especially in Africa, however, have low capital endowments, low rates of capital accumulation and low technological capabilities....

Using a unique dataset comprising information for over 900 firms in the machine building sector in Belarus, we investigate the determinants of firm growth for an economy where state ownership of enterprises is widespread. We use panel data models based on generalizations of Gibrat's law, total...

For oil producing countries it is important to share rationally oil revenues between current expenditure and savings. The purpose of this paper is to study what impact will have change of the oil revenues accumulation on the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators.Modeling of dynamic stochastic...

Investigate how retail investors determine their stock trading through experience to achieve the desired portfolio returns. To examine how retail investors coordinate their expected returns and perceived risk. Verify how retail investors’ trade potentials augment transactions on the stock...

One of the pillars of food security in developing countries is the accessibility to food. Over the last decade, world food market experienced events during which food prices increased significantly. The periods of high food prices were also accompanied by a high degree of volatility in prices....

1. Rationale/Objective Evaluation of healthcare reforms has been an integral part of healthcare system studies. In Uganda the effectiveness of the healthcare reforms that were systematically undertaken since 1992, has been widely studied. The partial equilibrium studies evaluating the reforms...