The agriculture sector in almost all parts of the world, including Pakistan, is prone to climate change in a number of ways. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC Report, 2013), climate change ...

Poverty is a universal phenomenon and has been issue of concern throughout history. There are two main approaches that are used to measure poverty; unidimensional approach and the multidimensional approach. Although, poverty ...

Family dynamics are changing over the time and urbanization is one of the important driving forces behind this change. In Pakistan, extended family structure has been more prevalent in older decades but with changing ...

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This study has delved into two surveys that contains data for over 190 countries business environments the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the Doing Business Survey. Invisible costs mostly ignored by productivity analysis ...

The present study empirically investigates the impact of human capital and R&D on Labor productivity using the modified endogenous growth model. It is argued that human capital affects the economy both directly as per Lucas ...

Natural disasters has been identified as major threat to human development. This study attempts to identify the effect of disasters on Human Development Index (HDI). The sample consists of 30 countries from all over the ...

An optimal monetary policy is crucial for the macroeconomic stability in terms of output and inflation. A general debate in macroeconomics is that monetary policy rules have a greater advantage over discretionary stance ...

Electricity theft is a chronic issue that weakens the electricity supply system. Energy worth billions of dollars is stolen annually from electricity grids and the extent of theft is higher in the developing countries. ...