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side determinants of child labor in case of Punjab, Pakistan. Multiple indicator cluster survey 2007-08 for Punjab was used …
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policies. Females form almost more than half of the total population in Pakistan play a very important role in the country. The …
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This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a … (PLM) project of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics/International Labour Organization. In addition to the …
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politics in Pakistan and particularly in Karachi. The majority of educated youth and middle classers in Pakistan belong to the …
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share of total population on unemployment in Pakistan for the period from 1973 – 2010. Empirical findings of this study … suggest that financial development does reduce unemployment significantly in the short run and in the long run. Foreign direct … investment reduces unemployment in the long run but, it increases unemployment in the short run. Moreover; the urban population …
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The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … these objectives can be made operational by examining the characteristics of the labour market in Pakistan. The first part … played a vital if not a decisive role in influencing poverty levels in Pakistan. The second part of the paper reviews the …
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employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. … und Lohn-bedingten Arbeitslosigkeit in Frage stellen. Es deutet vielmehr einiges darauf hin, dass die hohe …
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In this paper, we examine the directional predictability of excess stock market returns by lagged excess returns from industry portfolios and a number of other commonly used variables by means of dynamic probit models. We focus on the directional component of the market returns because, for...
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The aim of this article is to assess whether a fiscal sustainability indicator (FSI) can be used as an early warning indicator for predicting the probability that a currency crisis occurs. Using the FSI developed by Croce and Juan-Ramón (2003) and two different definitions of currency crisis, a...
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In India, poverty reduction is one of the major objectives of economic development programmes. Though, India was the first country in the world to define poverty as the total per capita expenditure of the lowest expenditure class, which is required to ascertain a minimum intake of 2400 kcal/day...
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