Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of human capital technology spillovers across countries in converging their growth rates. Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops a closed form mathematical endogenous growth model and applies it to a small open economy...

Purpose – To find out the behaviour of firms with objectives of Islamic Shariah when a number of techniques are working simultaneously with the different productive efficiencies. Design/methodology/approach – This is a theoretical paper based on the modified model of layers of techniques...

By means of a widely used flexible functional form estimated for seven manufacturing industries this paper examines complementarity between energy and capital. The industry level data have been used to avoid the aggregation bias in the estimation of elasticities of substitution as pointed out by...

Purpose – To apply the Tawhidi epistemology in the automobile industry as the paradigm of the Islamic socio-scientific order in terms of its inherent knowledge-centered worldview. Design/methodology/approach – The concepts of unity and unification of knowledge in a system-wide sense are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the determinants of malnutrition of primary school-age (five to ten years) children in urban and slum areas. The ultimate objective is to frame policy proposals for children's nutritional welfare. Design/methodology/approach – In this...

The generous theoretical and empirical debates are available on institutional freedom and economic growth, but unsuccessful to facilitate stationary conclusion regarding the nature of connection. It is still confusing that either economic freedom cause economic growth or economic growth widens...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight how rising food prices influence the degree of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – This is an empirical study employing the simple regression analysis. Findings – Besides other variables it has been observed that poverty remains an...

This paper explores the impact of the behaviour of a firm and its management on its stakeholders operating within the framework of Islamic law and morality and draws a sketch of a socially responsible enterprise which Islam idealizes in the domain of business and trade. The study suggests that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate those variables which have significant impact on the food security in a developing country such as Pakistan. The matter of food security in rural areas is of immense nature and needs to be probed. A number of factors are responsible for the...