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The worldwide colossal failures of financial institutions in the wake of the 2007–2010 financial turmoil the yesteryear advocates of liberalization and privatization converted almost overnight into vocal supporters of raising the safety walls around the interests of various stakeholders,...
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Enthralling experience of the newest format of cricket coupled with the possibility of making it to the prestigious Olympic spectacle, T20 cricket will be the most important cricket format in times to come. The findings of this paper confirmed that comparatively test cricket is boring to tag...
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This study investigates and interrogates the impact of various marketing strategies on the sales of major multinational pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan; include Abbott, GSK and Aventis, while applying the censored regression. Besides interrogating the possible impacts of various marketing...
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In my latest article on Islamic home financing models in the ISRA Journal, June 2013,I had shown that the Zubair Diminishing Balance Model (ZDBM) does not involve compounding of return and the transfer of ownership to the customer perfectly matches the payments’ rate; the two norms Islamic...
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The current financial turmoil has led many writers in the area of Islamic finance to revive an old edict in Islamic finance – no risk, no gain. I have discussed this axiom in my earlier writings and have not come across anything in recent advocacy of its proponents that could make me change my...
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The existence of political risk is so common in the equity markets of the world and specifically for Pakistan. The business owners are always with their extravagant concerns in this connection while formulating business strategies and policies for their desired returns. The purpose of this...
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The present paper attempts two demonstrations. First, it shows that the Excel formula Islamic banks invariably use to determine the fixed installment payments in home financing amortization has explicit compounding of return. Once the installment is based on that formula, the subsequent claims...
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The age of juvenility i.e. the youth has become emerged with new personality characteristics, which has made them more powerful than ever before. Similarly, the youth has become more spendthrift in their daily routine to satisfy their self-concept and social circle they belong to or wish to move...
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Recall and Recognition, two important aspects when one talks about advertising and consumers awareness towards the brands. This study has mainly been focused on the brand symbols and its importance in the mind of the consumers. Does a brand symbol really play a role of differentiating a brand...
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This paper identifies factors that impede/promote the use of a green supply-chain approach in Small and Medium size organizations in Pakistan. Quantitative approach was used to evaluate the proposition of the paper i.e. impact of government rules and regulation, customer pressure and...
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