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priorities followed over the past several years, Pakistan’s economy faces a grave set of challenges. Among the many issues, which … stability” (a much-maligned term, loath to politicians not just in Pakistan) is mutually exclusive to “pro-poor” agendas …
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processes that can affect fiscal policy in Pakistan. A sound fiscal policy feeds bond market development, while the bond market …
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efficiency of the central government budget and revised budget estimates in Pakistan for the period 1987/88 to 2007/08 and … that budgetary forecasting is inefficient in Pakistan and the error is due mainly to exogenous variables (random factors …
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priorities followed over the past several years, Pakistan’s economy faces a grave set of challenges. Among the many issues, which … stability” (a much-maligned term, loath to politicians not just in Pakistan) is mutually exclusive to “pro-poor” agendas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561882
In many countries, capital markets are often served by multiple stock exchanges, typically with one national or dominant exchange and several regional or satellite exchanges. While multi¬ple exchanges create a competitive landscape, they also lead to fragmented liquidity and diseconomies in...
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This paper investigates the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Pakistan with aggregate time … schooling in Pakistan than in OECD economies is consistent with very substantial education under-investment in Pakistan … estimated to have accounted for just under one-fifth of the increase in Pakistan’s GDP per head. Since the 1990s, the impact of …
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One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand its education system. With … of the majority of the population. Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, has taken several education reform initiatives to …
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Whether to provide services by the public or the private sector has been at the center of debates within governments and those in the international aid industry for decades. Unfortunately, this debate has often been cast in terms of absolutes with the private sector either as savior or demon....
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This paper investigates the economic (i.e., labor market) outcomes of “training” for individuals in Pakistan. The labor … market benefits of general education have been relatively well explored in the literature and specifically in Pakistan. They …,000 households in Pakistan, collected in 2007. Multinomial logit estimates of occupational attainment show how training determines …
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This study examines the impact of the quality of corporate governance, as measured by a specially constructed corporate governance index, on the expected cost of equitycalculated using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach. A total of 114 listed companies were investigated to analyze...
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