This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniques—OLS, TSLS, dummy variable approach introducing variation at the regional level, and fixed and random effect approaches...

This report compiles a latest social accounting matrix (SAM) of Pakistan for the year 1989-90. The SAM framework provides useful information about the structure of Pakistan's economy. Within this framework, the preferred classifications of various accounts are undertaken according to the policy...

Considering the existing system of gender inequality in Pakistan, the paper uses a SAM-based Computable General Equilibrium model to analyse gender dimensions of the impact of economic reforms on time allocation among different activities; market, household, and leisure. For this purpose, it...

The study, based on SAM-based CGE model, examines the impact of reduction in tariff on industrial imports on urban and rural households and on other broad macroeconomic aggregates. Based on simulation exercises for 40 percent, 60 percent and 80 percent reduction in tariff on industrial imports,...

The main objective of the study is to examine the determinants of the profitability of the banking sector of Pakistan. The level of bank advances and deposits, the liquidity ratio, and the 'spread' between rate of return on advances and rate of return on deposits, have been selected as the main...