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  • Has Microfinance Stimulated Wellbeing in Pakistan? 
    Mojiz, Haider R.; Afridi, Haroon Khan; Khawar, Maham (S3H-NUST, 2011)
    This study aimed to empirically calculate the impact of microfinance on wellbeing and poverty. This was done by taking a random sample of 182 borrowers, all of whom had taken microfinance loans from Khushhali Bank and ...
  • Financing the Budget Deficit of Pakistan: A study of the Revenue and Expenditure Nexus 
    Hira Nisar Khan (S3H , National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad., 2011)
    This paper examines the Revenue-Expenditure nexus for Pakistan over a period of 39 years, from 1976 – 2014. It studies whether there exists causality between total revenue and total expenditure, as well as their components: ...
  • Estimating Potential Output and Output Gap for Pakistan 
    Abdullah Khan (S3H , National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad., 2011)
    The objective of this paper is to calculate the output gap in Pakistan’s economy through three main estimation techniques, namely time trend, production function and HP Filter method. We use these techniques to initially ...
  • Examining Behavior in a Public Good Game: An Application of Prisoner’s Dilemma 
    Khan, Zarlasht; Maud, Hadiya; Zubair, Mariam (S3H - NUST,, 2012)
    Standard belief in economic theory asserts that effective public good provision will always be hindered by the presence of free-riders. Yet in contradiction to this, many collective goods have managed to be effectively ...
  • Reaping the Demographic Dividend Lessons from the East Asian Miracle 
    Sara Zafar Cheema, Maryam Qayyum and Syeda Hurriya Ali (S3H , National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad., 2012)
    This research empirically tests the impact of population dynamics on the economic growth of Pakistan, for the period of 1960 to 2013. The results reveal that the working age population is definitely growing at a faster ...
  • Testing Rationality in Ultimatum Games 
    JAVED, FAIQA; ANUM, JAWARIA; ARSHAD, NOOR (S3H - NUST,, 2013)
    All economic theories are based on a very vital assumption that all economic agents participating in any activity behave rationally. The game theoretic prediction states that agents will accept any positive payoff over ...
  • Endogenous Changes in the Determination of the Exchange Rate of Pakistan 
    Hameed, Faiza; Naseem, Muneeb Ahmad; Ali, Sheherbano (S3H - NUST,, 2013)
    The traditional economic theory of exchange rate determination does not include changes in political economy and the lobbying power of interest groups. This paper seeks to quantify and endogenize these factors, in order ...
  • IMPACT OF SOCIAL SAFETY NETS ON AN INDIVIDUAL’S BEHAVIOUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF RURAL PAKISTAN 
    KHALID, RABIA; ALI, SUMAIYYA; SHAUKAT, SEEMAL (S3H - NUST,, 2013)
    This dissertation investigates the impact of Social Safety Nets (SSN) on the behavioural aspects of households, namely, their aspirations levels and the level of confidence these households have in their government. We ...
  • The Impact of Remittances on Sustainable Development in Pakistan 
    Mulk, Mekail ul; Rehman, Rafay; Ahmed, Sharjeel (S3H - NUST,, 2013)
    This paper looks at the impact of remittances on sustainable development in Pakistan. In this paper, Sustainable Development is looked at in the framework of the „SDGs‟ (Sustainable Development Goals) defined by the UNDP ...
  • UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION IN PAKISTAN SUBMITTED BY: Kanwal Mehmood Mehick Ahmed Muhammad Abid Naeem 
    Kanwal Mehmood Mehick Ahmed Muhammad Abid Naeem (S3H-NUST, 2015)
    This paper focuses on the demographic transition in Pakistan and its probable dividend or loss to the economy. Discussion on the existence of demographic dividends and their benefits has been surfacing for quite some time. ...
  • Measuring services sector liberalization and its impact on services GDP in Pakistan 
    Maryam Mahfooz (S3H-NUST, 2015)
  • Determinants of retirement planning in Pakistan 
    Khan, Zarbakht; Khan Tareen, Mubashir Zaman (S3H-NUST, 2015)
    The aim of this study is to study the determinants and factors responsible for retirement planning behavior in Pakistan. Through this research we aim to determine the economic factors such as income, saving and expenditures ...
  • Examining the Wage Differentials in Public and Private Sector of Pakistan 
    Raafiah Adil; Manahil Shabbir Khan; Muhammad Hamza Liaqat (S3H-NUST, 2015)
    This paper examines the presence and magnitude of a wage differential between the public and private sector of Pakistan. We obtained cross-sectional data, drawn from the Pakistan Labor Force Survey of 2014-15. Observing ...
  • Happiness and its determinants in Pakistan at micro level 
    Ramsha Munir (S3H-NUST, 2015)
    The aim to this paper is to evaluate the happiness index of Pakistan through finding its determinants. Through this research we access the factors that could affect individual’s happiness level from both economics and ...
  • Beyond GDP: estimating the social progress for Pakistan 
    : Alishba Rasheed Maryam Arshad Mirza (S3H-NUST, 2015)
    The concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has mostly encompassed economic as well as social well-being of a society. While the significance of GDP as an economic indicator cannot be dismissed, a growing number of ...
  • Economic Globalization and Consumption Convergence: The Case of Pakistan 
    Fatima Mahoon (S3H , National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad., 2015)
    This paper attempts to examine the relationship between convergence in taste across countries and economic globalization. Consumption expenditure patterns are linked to the volume of bilateral trade and foreign direct ...
  • Food Security: A Case for Pakistan 
    Hammad Farooq Khan Syed Ali Jaffar Hamdani , Syed Muhammad Razi Haider (S3H , National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad., 2015)
    This investigative study analyses the food security situation of Pakistan in accord with the latest indicators of food security (as given and developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) over ...
  • Has Microfinance Stimulated Wellbeing in Pakistan? 
    Haider R. Mojiz (S3H , National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad., 2015)
    This study aimed to empirically calculate the impact of microfinance on wellbeing and poverty. This was done by taking a random sample of 182 borrowers, all of whom had taken microfinance loans from Khushhali Bank and ...
  • Shocks Vulnerability Resilience Nexus: An empirical analysis 
    Muhammad Umer Saeed , Hamza Rafay Butt (S3H , National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad., 2015)
    The paramount motivation behind this study was not the fact that no study of this nature and on this issue had been done in Pakistan before, but also that even though those below the poverty line do have some social ...
  • The Paradox of Economic rationality 
    Hassan Nasir , Hamid Haider Gilani , (S3H , National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad., 2015)
    Rationality is a very vital assumption in micro economics theory of choice. Behavioral economics advocates that behavior of economic agents deviates systematically from rationality axioms. Rationality axioms are evaluated ...

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