Domestic resource mobilization is one of the key determinants of sustained economic growth. Pakistan's performance with regard to domestic resource mobilization has been poor despite maintaining a respectable economic growth rate. Why is the savings rate so low in Pakistan? In this paper we...

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth and government expenditure growth by estimating an augmented GDP-growth equation on the basis of cross-country data, and using ordinary least squares (0LS) and random coefficient (RC) methods. The latter method yields both mean...

This paper examines demand for electricity in Kuwait. As, given the climatic conditions, the planning for electricity generating capacity is based on peak-load, the main focus of the paper is peak-load demand. The analysis in the paper is based on annual time series data, and generalized least...

Cost structure of petroleum refining industry in Kuwait has been examined, with specific focus on factor substitution, and economies of scale and utilisation. This has been done by estimating translog cost functions, both long-run and short-run, using annual time-series data covering the period...

This paper examines household consumption patterns in Pakistan by estimating three different functional forms of the Engel curve, namely linear, double logarithmic, and Working-Leser, for six different income groups. Using household level data for the year 1984-85, focussing on the impact of...

This paper investigates the technical, and allocative efficiencies of public schools in Kuwait over four levels of schooling (kindergartens, primary, intermediate and secondary) and two periods (1999/2000 and 2004/2005) using data envelopment analysis. Mean pure technical efficiency varies...

It has been argued that failure to enlist participation in education in developing countries cannot be attributed exclusively to insufficiency of the schools. To the extent that child schooling reflects parental capacity to invest in human capital formation, there is a need to reckon with the...