The study has identified certain factors behind high energy intensity in Pakistan. Poor institutional quality, industrialization and urbanization are found to be responsible for high energy intensity while income per capita and energy prices playing a significant role in reducing energy...

The study is an attempt to estimate demand for petrol and diesel in the road transport of Pakistan for the period 1971-72 to 2016-17. Using these demand estimates, it forecasts demand for these two products up to 2024-25 under different scenarios of economic growth and petroleum product pricing....

The relationship between export expansion and economic growth has been examined extensively during the last two decades in the context of the suitability of the alternative development strategies. The decade of the 1970s witnessed an emerging consensus in favour of export promotion as...