There is convincing evidence that Pakistan has entered the demographic bonus phase; child dependency is declining and … used the data from Pakistan Demographic Surveys and Labour Force Surveys carried out between 1990 and 2005. Findings of the … the pace of human capital formation seems to be satisfactory in urban Pakistan, it is dismal in rural areas, particularly …

to as the ‘demographic dividend’. Pakistan is also going through the demographic transition, and is experiencing a once … dividend being offered to Pakistan and its implications for the country, mainly through three mechanisms: labour supply …, if appropriate policies are not formulated, the demographic dividend might, in fact, be a cost, leading to unemployment …

reforms have helped in removing the flaws in the banking sector of Pakistan. In particular, privatisation of banks, the … competitive environment is the key factor behind improved efficiency of banks in Pakistan. The banks devised a number of …

This study is an attempt to explore the cost of unserved energy due to power outages in Pakistan that started in 2007 … Sialkot. In addition to quantification of output losses, the effect on employment, cost of production, and delay in supply … alternative energy arrangements. These arrangements, nevertheless, have increased the production cost of the firms. Delays in the …

two threshold levels for Pakistan using annual data from 1961 to 2008 is examined and secondly, nonlinear relationship …

growth. The importance of foreign inflow in Pakistan is very well acknowledged and documented, however the affect of these … inflows on poor people of Pakistan remains unanswered. This paper is an attempt to fill this gap by studying the impact of … foreign inflows on poverty reduction in Pakistan through the channel of health, education and other indicators related to …

2004 using several variants of dynamic panel data models. We find mixed support for the agency cost hypothesis as our …

Since May 2009 the first National Health Accounts (NHA) for Pakistan have been finalised and published by Federal … and analyses in more detail the regional differences in health expenditure structures in Pakistan. The further analyses … district governments health expenditures and its comparison with ADB figures, all districts of Pakistan and comparison between …

measures of vulnerability proposed in the literature are applied to a panel data-set collected from rural Pakistan. The …

associated issues of the hidden economy with suitable policy measures. In Pakistan, it is generally assumed that the hidden … Amendment and the 7th NFC Award in Pakistan. …