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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This study is an attempt to explore the cost of unserved energy due to power outages in Pakistan that started in 2007 …
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two threshold levels for Pakistan using annual data from 1961 to 2008 is examined and secondly, nonlinear relationship …
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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 …
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We examine the empirical determinants of debt-maturity structure of 266 firms listed on the KSE over the period 2000 to 2004 using several variants of dynamic panel data models. We find mixed support for the agency cost hypothesis as our results show that debtmaturity increases with the size of...
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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 …
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measures of vulnerability proposed in the literature are applied to a panel data-set collected from rural Pakistan. The …
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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. …
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