Foreign economic aid is at the cross-roads. There is an atmosphere of gloom and disenchantment surrounding international aid in both the developed and developing countries - more so in the former than in the latter. Doubts have grown in the developed countries, especially among the conservatives...

The choice of technology in the developing countries has been a subject matter of considerable theoretical and empirical investigation. That labourabundant economy like Pakistan should opt for labour-intensive technology in order to maximise income and employment has been widely recommended....

Pakistan has experienced in the last decade a significant rate of growth of exports, especially of the manufactured exports. The manufactured exports have grown at an annual compound rate of 15 per cent during the period 1960-67. This significant rate of growth of exports has been associated...

The paper presents, in Section I, new and additional evidence on the comparative costs of manufacturing industries in Pakistan. Furthermore, the findings of the present study are compared with those of earlier studies. Comparative costs in this context are defined as the ratios of ex-factory...

The concept of surplus labour has featured prominently in the recent literature on economic development of underdeveloped. overpopulated economies. W. A. Lewis in his two celebrated articles [1] attempted a precise r.rmulation of the concept of surplus labour and sought to analyse its...

Pakistan's industrial achievement in a relatively short span of time and in the light of the experience of the similarly placed countries has been favourably commented upon by the observers and analysts, both at home and abroad. Dr. M. N. Huda, in his Conference Address, refers to this...

A. study of interregional trade in Pakistan affords an interesting case V of the working of an economic union as well as of the development ade relations between a relatively more and a relatively less developed in. The central purpose of this paper is to construct a number of basic ;tical...

This article examines the role of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bangladesh in pushing the army in a certain direction with regard to holding elections and supporting political parties. It analyses the reasons why the UN peacekeeping mission has such a strong influence on the...