The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the Savings-Investment Gap. There are many forms of the foreign capital inflows like FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), External loans & Credit,...

Previously security market research had been focused mainly on developed economies with no attention paid to the security markets of developing countries of South East Asia. In an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, this paper conducts an empirical investigation of the random walk of...

The investment trend in Pakistan fluctuated from province to province, urban to rural, and urban to urban. Small cities of yesteryears have emerged as big cities like Gujranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Multan, Rawalpindi, and Faisalabad, while some major centers of trade and business in the past like...

Pakistan's banking sector has progressed rapidly in the last few years. The trend of consolidation in the industry, which began in the US and spread to Europe, Middle East, and South East Asia, has now reached the subcontinent. A process of consolidation as a viable solution has followed each...

The government in Pakistan is designing new policies to cope up with the requirements of free trade regime. Agriculture apart from being the largest sector is also one of the most affected sectors of the economy. Changes in the tariffs and subsidies structure have largely affected the domestic...

This paper applies multi-index model to Pakistan cement industry firms to find out the relationship of Pakistan cement industry firms to selected market and industry variables. The seven firms selected for this analysis were on the basis of data availability, profitability and performance on the...

This paper is a situational analysis of child labour in Pakistan. Child labour is a pervasive phenomenon in many developing countries. It is the symptom of several ailments the economy is suffering from and cannot be eliminated simply by passing legislation. Legislation to ban child labour has...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and US Treasury view globalization of economies as a mathematical and scientific problem and not as a socio-cultural phenomenon. To these institutions it is monetarist economics that should govern economic globalization. This study analyzes...

This paper discusses the need for corporate debt market in the financial structure of a country with a view to find a rationale through the use of cost-benefits analysis framework. An analysis of the corporate debt market of Pakistan has been included to develop models, identify problem areas/...

Throughout Pakistan's 58 year history two forms of government, namely, military and democratic rule have been imposed on the country. Although the economic and social performance of the two types of government has been documented extensively in terms of qualitative research methodology, no...