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Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting Technology and Women Time Allocation in District Bagh and Battagram Pakistan
Ahmed, Ajaz; Mustafa, Usman; Khalid, Mahmood - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 459-470
in Pakistan is living in areas, where access to safe drinking water is very serious issue. In these areas most vulnerable … consumption. In order to resolve the issue of water in Pakistan, a number of public and private agencies are working in this field … RRWH technology with special reference to women time allocation in Bagh and Battagram districts of Pakistan. Analyses were …
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On Measuring Inclusiveness of Growth in Pakistan
Asghar, Saima; Javed, Sajid Amin - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 879-894
these two most important socio-economic components of development. Based on data, extracted from Pakistan Social and Living …
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The Current Account Dynamics in Pakistan: An Intertemporal Optimisation Perspective
Mukhtar, Tahir; Khan, Aliya H. - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 401-421
developed and developing countries. Using data on Pakistan over the period 1960 to 2009, the present study finds that the basic … current account imbalance in Pakistan. …
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Macroeconomic Effects of Global Food and Oil Price Shocks to the Pakistan Economy: A Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) Analysis
Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Ahmed, Ayaz - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 491-511
Pakistan using monthly data over the period 1990M1-2011M7. An empirical analysis is carried out by employing structural vector … to track the impact of oil and food price shocks to Pakistan‘s economy. Results suggest that oil price shock affects …, among all, real effective exchange rate has seen a dominant source of variations in Pakistan. This implies that supply …
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Testing the Harrod Balassa Sameulson Hypothesis: The Case of Pakistan
Jabeen, Sunila; Malik, Waseem Shahid; Haider, Azad - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 379-399
For a small open economy of Pakistan, exchange rate is determined through the two alternative theories; the nominal … satisfactory results either in its form of absolute version or relative version. Because, real exchange rate in Pakistan is a non … favouring the PPP in tradable sector, the ADF and KPSS are indicating the presence of the HBS in Pakistan. On the other hand …
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Macro level Determinants of Poverty: Investigation Through Poverty Mapping of Districts of Pakistan
Said, Farah; Musaddiq, Tareena; Mahmud, Mahreen - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 895-911
The study explores the spatial patterns of poverty in Pakistan through two dimensions, asset accumulation and basic … needs. For this purpose Pakistan Standard of Living Measurement 08-09 is employed to construct an Asset Index and a Basic …
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Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Index Based Crop Insurance in Pakistan: A Case Study on Food and Cash Crops of Rain-fed Areas
Ali, Akhter - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2
In Pakistan, agriculture is vulnerable to multiple risks, especially in the rain-fed areas. The crop insurance can … serve as a useful tool to manage risks in the rain-fed areas of Pakistan. This study has assessed farmers’ willingness to … pay for insurance in the rain-fed areas of Pakistan by conducting a survey of 531 farmers in the Soon valley and Talagang …
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Economics of Tea Production in Pakistan
Rehman, Bushra; Akmal, Nadeem; Khan, Muhammad Azeem; … - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 03
important „health drink‟ in view of its purported medicinal value. Pakistan has the potential of producing quality tea. National … Tea Research Institute NTRI plays a very important role in the production and promotion of tea cultivation in Pakistan …
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Growth, Instability and Price Flexibility of Major Pulses in Pakistan
Rani, Saima; Shah, Hassnain; Ali, Akhter; Rehman, Bushra - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 02
In the present paper time series data from 1976 to 2010 on the price, area, yield and production of major pulses (gram, masoor, mung and mash) is analyzed to estimate the compound growth rate, instability index and annual fluctuation of area, yield, production and prices. Own price flexibility...
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The Impact of Agriculture Credit on Growth in Pakistan
Akmal, Nadeem; Rehman, Bushra; Ali, Akhtar; Shah, Hassnain - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 04
Agriculture took place on land, where crops, rising and rearing animals for the production of food for man and industries. But to run all the activities credit is the main stream. In most of the developing countries credit played a very important role in economic growth. This study is designed...
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