Public service delivery is critical in the process of implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Evaluation of service quality can reflect the performance of the government. The paper measures citizen satisfaction ...

Internationally, static poverty measures have been used as indicators to evaluate the well-being of individuals and have served as tools for policy formulation. There are essentially two issues related to this, firstly ...

This research is aimed at analyzing inflation targeting with regard to inflation expectations for the case of Pakistan. The first part of the study is centered upon empirical estimation of the monetary policy reaction ...

Owing to socioeconomic challenges, most households in Pakistan depend on unsafe energy sources for cooking, heating, and lighting. Household air pollution (HAP), primarily caused due to dirty fuel usage, results in morbidity ...

Research has shown that children of empowered mothers are generally well-nourished and have good health outcomes. Therefore, empowering women is a straightforward policy recommendation to improve child health. However, ...

This paper assesses a two-step procedure to examine whether intellectual property rights effects stock market development. Furthermore, does this impact on stock market development stimulate productivity growth? The study ...

This study forecasts the quarterly GDP growth rates for Pakistan using leading macro-economic indicators covering a period from January 2002 to December 2020. We use Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) regressions, which directly ...

The study conducted an exploration of old-age people specifically parents in families and the effect of their presence on intra-family transfers (transfer among siblings). As market has the inherent potential in excluding ...

In this thesis we intend to assess the role of external debt as a factor constraining the gains in economic growth to be achieved from the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Pakistan. In this regard, we use a model to ...

This study examines the IPO waiting period from offering to the first trading day listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2018. We find that firms float shares to the general public have passed through ...