Assessing the asset utilization is complicated and not easy job to perform and it measures how effectively a company uses the resources to generate sales and have profitability. The success of company is largely relying on the ability to handle and control their assets and there are several...

This paper attempts to focus on factors that affect access to finance in SMEs in Pakistan and the obstacles that affects their performance. The study also analyzed the relationship between certain characteristics of owners/managers, their businesses, their need to finance, together with the...

This paper investigates the factors that can affect the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)'s performance, paying particular attention to REITs' in nascent, emerging, developed markets. Sample of 21 listed REITs are selected from five countries of nascent, emerging, developed markets namely...

The current study investigates the impact of firm's specific factors such as its size, liquidity or leverage, cash flow, profitability, asset tangibility and growth opportunity on working capital management. Secondary data of 8 assembling companies working in the automobile sector of Pakistan...

The paper attempts to measure the output of social welfare organizations in Pakistan and propose improving suggestions. For this purpose, a theoretical model with nine components, namely mission, strategy, processes, people, financial health, organizational infrastructure, people satisfaction,...

This article investigates the performance of Islamic banks versus conventional counterparts in Pakistan over the period (2007-2017) using financial ratio analysis. A total of 18 banks (13 conventional and 5 Islamic) were considered. A comparative study is undertaken based on performance...

This study examines how institutional indicators influence economic growth in a theoretical framework proposed by North (1981). Thirty-one indicators each covering 84 countries over a span of 5 years have been used to extract factors based on principal component analysis. Factors based on these...

This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM technique applied to cross-sectional data from 45 countries. Specifically it attempted to test the impact of different dimensions of institutions on growth using an index of institutionalized social technologies...

Banking sector is the backbone of any country's economy and bank deposits are the major tool of success for banking sector.Bank deposits are also a major part and determinant of country's saving. According to economic theories and practical considerations, interest rate is considered one of the...

Background:Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings,ribaor earning interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and...