Development process may entail changes in the socio-economic positions of people from one generation to the other. In Pakistan, no attempt has so far been made to study the lines on which people gain upward mobility or the factors which are involved in this process. This paper is an attempt in...

In earlier studies of the informal sector, and in particular in its association with small-scale, cottage and household manufacturing industries (HM), this sector was commonly considered as economically backward, low-income and offering few possibilities for raising productive employment. Later...

In order to enhance the indigenous supply of energy, Pakistan has launched various investment programmes as a consequence of which 28 percent and 43.2 per· cent of total public investment has been invested in the energy sector, respectively, in the Fifth and the Sixth Five Year Plans. However,...

This paper attempts to analyse the effects of changes in agricultural prices on different segments of the society. Taking the cases of two major crops; namely wheat and rice, and of agricultural inputs in general, it works out the 'own-price effects' and 'cross-price effects' of price changes on...

The performance of the existing agricultural marketing system in developing countries has been a subject of considerable debate in the past many years.. One of the many issues of this debate concerns the ability of the traditional marketing system to adopt new technology and to accommodate any...