Although laws against corruption are comprehensive and strict yet they so far seem to be insufficient for eliminating corruption in Pakistan. The NIS country report assesses the performance of the legal provisions that safeguard individual and institutional corrupt practices by analysing the 13...

In this paper, probabilistic approach has been made in the study of Makki, Madani and Mixed Suras of the Holy Quran. Using the word-size and word-length of Ayats, these Suras are categorized by word-length and a frequency distribution is obtained. The paper highlights the constructional...

Knowledge has become prime source of economic production in modern enterprises; conceptualized by many researchers as the only source of sustainable competitive advantage. Therefore many organizations are restructuring themselves to gain maximum value from their knowledge sources. The paper...

In this paper, a group acceptance sampling plan (GASP) is introduced for the situations when lifetime of the items follows the generalized Pareto distribution. The design parameters such as minimum group size and acceptance number are determined when the consumer's risk and the test termination...

It is attempted to explore the role of change in age-structure and human capital in economic growth of developing countries. A disaggregated panel analysis of 67 developing economies across regions and income groups over the time period of 1960-2014 is conducted. Difference Generalized Method of...

The energy needs of India have increased many folds in recent years due to industrialization and ever-increasing population. Wind energy offers excellent opportunities in fulfilling the energy needs of the country. Being renewable, it has enormous resource potential. Since the last decade, the...

This study uses stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency of rice farms. Average technical efficiency of sampled farms was estimated to be 85 percent with a minimum of 57 percent and a maximum of 96 percent. The results further showed that the visits...