The study examines the relationship between unemployment and property crimes for Pakistan covering the period of 1975 to 2008. The Johansen cointegration methodology along with Granger causality through VEC is applied to the annual time series data. The results of the cointegration analysis...

Abstract: Out of 120 districts of Pakistan (for rural areas) only 40 are food secure while 80 (67 percent) are food insecure. Within these food insecure districts, 38 (46 percent) are extremely food insecure. The matter of food security in rural areas is of immense nature and needs to be probed....

To meet the public deficit, Government of Pakistan has been disproportionately borrowing from the scheduled banks and general public which are also the source of funding for private investment. Even the public sector corporations are doing the same. From the crowding out perspective borrowing...

The paper probed the impact of supply of money on food and general price indices by estimating a series of equations taking CPI food, CPI general, WPI food, WPI general, GDP deflator and SPI as measures of inflation and M1, M2 and M3 supply of money as explanatory variables. For analysis, OLS...

The study examines the relationship between unemployment and property crimes for Pakistan covering the period of 1975 to 2008. The Johansen cointegration methodology along with Granger causality through VEC is applied to the annual time series data. The results of the cointegration analysis...

The literature on financial development and poverty reduction is extensive. Most of the studies are cross-country studies questioned on the basis of inability to eliminate country specific effects. This study examined the role of financial development in poverty reduction in Pakistan. The paper...