This study investigates the speed at which the banking sector of Latin American countries adjust to equilibrium levels in the long run. For this purpose partial adjustment process to Panzar and Rosse H-Statistics is used. Markets adjust towards long-run equilibrium in a non-instantaneous manner....

In writing this case on GSP (Geological Survey of Pakistan), we conducted ten in depth interviews at GSP using seven perspectives framework of John McAuley, so that the progression of thoughts and flow of ideas should be in a logical, coherent and consistent fashion for the vivid and clear...

This paper focuses upon exploring the contribution of constructionism and existential perspective for the strength and value of subjective perspective of leadership as well as strategy. It also advocates the value of subjective perspective when we give due status to this approach. It invites the...

Access to finance through financial institutions is highly dependent on financial literacy. The basic purpose of this paper is to examine the women’s financial literacy level in Pakistan, especially, among women entrepreneurs. This study also tries to determine the effect of the financial...

The factors affecting environmental quality are examined in this chapter. Along with the support of relevant literature, Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is explained in detail to examine the impact of economic growth. In order to understand the linkage between foreign direct...

This chapter examines the asymmetric link between technological innovation and financialization in Pakistan for the period 1980-2019. The non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model proposed by Shin et al. (2014) is applied to achieve the research objective. The numerical estimates...

During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. The past few decades have been eventful for these issues. Today, tackling money laundering and terrorism financing are considered key issues in developed and developing...

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the urgent need to develop a sound and robust universal framework that would prove helpful in creating uniform acceptability of Islamic financial instruments. Among many problems, a particular problem in developing a uniform global framework for Islamic...

Purpose Money laundering (ML) is the process used to convert the proceeds of crimes into lawful form. This global problem promotes social ills, corruption and organized crimes. Various instruments are used to counter individual illicit behavior. However, in low-income countries, these...