for Pakistan’s economy.Although our comprehensive assessment finds that many of the core requirements remain unrealized … these conditions. We investigate whether—were the State Bank of Pakistan to adopt an ITF—there exists a stable and … Pakistan, in the absence of most ofthe fundamental requirements of an ITF, is perhaps not yet ready for it. …

Competitiveness has become a mantra and organizing framework for much government policymaking in Pakistan and beyond … abuse) of the concept of competitiveness in the context of contemporary Pakistan. We focus on three recent and influential … reports on competitiveness in Pakistan by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and Competitiveness Support Fund, and agree …

This article argues that a new growth vent in Pakistan requires tapping into external lucrative markets in a manner …

categories—in the case of nonfinancial listed firms in Pakistan for the period 2008–10. We make a significant distinction between …

analyze the demand- and supply-side factors that affect food prices in Pakistan. We analyze their long-run relationship using …

This study is an attempt to investigate trade–labor market linkages in Pakistan. Our main hypothesis that trade … 1970/71–2000/01 for 22 selected manufacturing industries in Pakistan. We use ordinary least squares to estimate models in … labor-demand elasticity as a result of trade liberalization in Pakistan’s manufacturing sector. Nor does the study find …

Pakistan has not been studied in any depth up to now. The results of our empirical analysis show that over the last five …

margin. This is in contrast to the popular perception that the market power of the oligopolistic industry contributes to …

Compared to the historical and even contemporary experience of India, Pakistan has long been regarded as a “dependent …” economy. Gross domestic product growth in Pakistan is typically argued to be contingent on external factors: trade, financial … hypothesis of dependency. The results show that growth in Pakistan is influenced by external factors, but that growth is driven …

instrument producers in Sialkot, Pakistan, demonstrate that firms are more likely to be interested in such initiatives once they …