This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan using empirical evidence from time series data analysis. The issue of trade liberalization and its effects on the developing economies has become the hotly debated subject in...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the short- and long-run relationships between national savings and its monetary and fiscal determinants in Pakistan, during the period 1972-2010. In this study, monetary determinants are M2, Deposit rate, Inflation rate and fiscal determinants are budget...

Present work is an attempt to explore intersperse of fiscal decentralization and public investment in Pakistan. The study used a time series data from 1972 to 2013 and Johansen cointegration procedure is used for empirical investigation. It is reported that in the long run, fiscal autonomy to...

Defense spending is a multifaceted phenomenon. In recent years, economists and policy makers have been interested in the explanation of the relationship between defense spending and macroeconomic variables especially growth. This study explores the connection between defense outlays and growth...

The current study finds out the impact of interest rate differentials on capital market. The difference between lending rate and deposit rate has been on the growing for previous few years which affects the saving behavior and investment behavior and growth of capital market. We have estimated...

The study provides estimates of the private returns to education in Pakistan by using a random sample of 850 wage earners including male and female from different professions between age group 15-65 years from Multan district. This study provided a novel contribution by providing an in-depth...

The present study explores the effects of globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental quality in OIC countries. The main purpose of the study is to analyze that how opening of OIC economies together with inward FDI affect the environmental quality in terms of CO2emissions....

This paper investigates the impact of trade openness and public expenditures on health status in OIC member countries. Panel data of 47 OIC member countries from 1991 to 2017 is taken from the World Development Indicators (WDI). The econometric results areestimated using GMM technique to avoid...

Poverty is a complex phenomenon based on a network of interlocking economic, social, political, and demographic factors. An understanding of the extent, nature, and determinants of rural poverty is a precondition for effective public policy to reduce poverty in rural Pakistan. The present study...

For almost a century, the famous C-K paradigm (formally known as Classics – Keynesian Paradigm) has been the apex of economic debate and research. The paradigm represents two schools of thoughts which, somehow, have prevailed till now. Economists who believe in either of the two schools have...