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Dynamics of Circular Debt in Pakistan and Its Resolution
Ali, Syed Sajid; Badar, Sadia - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 15 (2010) Special Edition, pp. 61-74
This paper examines the circular debt problem in the Pakistani energy sector. After presenting the profile of the energy sector in Pakistan, the paper explains why circular debt has emerged in the sector. Two principal reasons are discussed for the circular debt problem: First, consumer tariffs...
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How Pakistan is coping with the Challenge of High Oil Prices
Malik, Afia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper is a review of possible consequences and challenges presented by high oil prices in Pakistan. Pakistan is heavily dependent on imported fuels and this dependence is expected to increase even further in future given the depleting gas resources. The rising oil prices in the international...
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Electricity consumption-economic growth Nexus: An aggregated and disaggregated causality analysis in India and Pakistan
Abbas, Faisal; Choudhury, Nirmalya - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 4, pp. 538-553
This paper empirically examined the causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in two densely populated countries in South Asia, India and Pakistan. The causality analysis was estimated at aggregated and disaggregated level where the focus of the analysis was on the...
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Socioeconomic impacts of cross-border transport infrastructure development in South Asia
Gilbert, John P.; Banik, Nilanjan - 2010
, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. This paper uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to address how these infrastructure … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … accruing to India in absolute terms, but the largest relative gains to Nepal, followed by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka when the …
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Challenge of Economic Growth and the Concern for Energy Security: A Comparative Analysis of South and South-East Asia
Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
major economies of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are selected from the former region and Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand …
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Electricity generation as a determinant of unemployment in Pakistan
Rashid, Adnan; Haq, Anwaar Ul - In: Journal of Chinese economic and foreign trade studies 9 (2016) 2, pp. 102-112
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Prospects of nuclear energy in the 21st century in Southwest Asia: an assessment for Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mumtaz, Ahmad; Lodhi, Mansoor Hassan Khan; Ullah, … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 30 (2008) 1/2/3/4, pp. 204-227
This paper presents a scenario of socio-economic development and the corresponding energy requirements of Pakistan for 2025, 2050 and 2100. It shows that even after large-scale development of indigenous energy resources, the energy import dependence increases. If access to advanced nuclear power...
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Electricity generation as a determinant of unemployment in Pakistan
Rashid, Adnan; Ul Haq, Anwaar - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 9 (2016) 2, pp. 102-112
Purpose The area about unemployment and its participation in the economic progress has been widely debated in literature. A significant number of studies on this impediment of economic boom have been found to consider the concept through Okun’s law. This study aims to apply some different...
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Optimal second-best tariffs on an intermediate input with particular reference to Pakistan
Lahiri, Sajal; Nasim, Anjum; Ghani, Jawaid - In: Journal of development economics 61 (2000) 2, pp. 393-416
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Socioeconomic impacts of cross-border transport infrastructure development in South Asia
Gilbert, John; Banik, Nilanjan - 2010
, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. This paper uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to address how these infrastructure … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … accruing to India in absolute terms, but the largest relative gains to Nepal, followed by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286155