Islamic banking in Pakistan has completed one decade of operations in Pakistan and now there are 5 full-fledged Islamic banks and more than 15 conventional banks with Islamic banking windows. Due to the consistent double digit growth in total assets, the market share had steadily risen to 7% by...

The study examines the willingness to pay (WTP) for recreational services of two parks in Northern Pakistan. The data were collected from a sample of 120 respondents in March-April 2001. The study seeks to answer: What factors determine visitors' WTP? Whether improvement in recreational benefits...

Pakistan's banking sector has progressed rapidly in the last few years. The trend of consolidation in the industry, which began in the US and spread to Europe, Middle East, and South East Asia, has now reached the subcontinent. A process of consolidation as a viable solution has followed each...

The government in Pakistan is designing new policies to cope up with the requirements of free trade regime. Agriculture apart from being the largest sector is also one of the most affected sectors of the economy. Changes in the tariffs and subsidies structure have largely affected the domestic...

This paper applies multi-index model to Pakistan cement industry firms to find out the relationship of Pakistan cement industry firms to selected market and industry variables. The seven firms selected for this analysis were on the basis of data availability, profitability and performance on the...

This paper is a situational analysis of child labour in Pakistan. Child labour is a pervasive phenomenon in many developing countries. It is the symptom of several ailments the economy is suffering from and cannot be eliminated simply by passing legislation. Legislation to ban child labour has...

Throughout Pakistan's 58 year history two forms of government, namely, military and democratic rule have been imposed on the country. Although the economic and social performance of the two types of government has been documented extensively in terms of qualitative research methodology, no...

The paper investigates the effects of imports and foreign capital inflows on economic growth in case of Pakistan over the period of 1990Q1-2008Q4. We have applied ARDL bounds testing approach to examine the long run relationship and investigated the direction of causality by using VECM...

This paper examines the demand for edible oil in Pakistan and a dynamic supply response model to show price responsiveness by sunflower oilseed farmers. The demand for edible oil is estimated by using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. It has been found that an increase in the consumption of...

The objective of this paper are to study the sericulture production structure and the analysis of farm-level technical efficiency measures. The results show that most of the farmers involved in this enterprise are illiterate. This industry is further characterised by inappropraite rearing sheds,...