This study discusses the impact of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth to have an indepth analysis of different policies that are in practice for decentralisation. This study makes it obvious that mere decentralisation is not enough; the equally important matter is how to decentralise? In...

The objective of this paper isto investigate the impact of inflation targeting strategy on monetary policy transmission mechanism by estimating the impact of deposit rate on consumption to GDP ratio in emerging market economies. The study considers sixteen years of annual data from 2001 to 2016...

The Just-in-Time manufacturing philosophy appears to be the most effective remedy to reduce income disparities in countries where majority of people are young, energetic and looking for job to earn respectable living in the society. JIT manufacturing system is designed to split production...

The study has assessed the welfare impacts of unconditional cash transfers of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) by using impact evaluation panel surveys, conducted in 2011 (baseline) and 2016 (follow-up round). The panel survey contains information from both the beneficiary and...

Women empowerment has its significance for the economic and social development of countries; specifically, women empowerment is rendered important for child health. Child health being part of sustainable development goals (2030) can be traced through reduced infant and child mortality rates....

This study presents the insightful and comprehensive empirical evidence on the impact of income and institutional governance on climate change based on panel data of 203 countries for time series of 1996 to 2017. We have divided the countries into sub-samples of 34 low-income, 101 middle-income...

In thisstudy, we examine what does determine children's decisionsregarding schooling, work, and idleness in rural areas of Pakistan. In particular, we are interested in looking at the effect of children'sillness/disability on parental time allocation decisions with regard to their children....

Volatility in financial markets is a highly explored area of research for the last few decades. Possible reasons for high concentration on the markets are its unexplained and unexplored sources. The present study aims to check certain macroeconomic variables as determinants of financial markets...

Beginning of the twenty-first century has seen the Quality Assurance in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) turn into a frequent topic of discourse on an international scale as well as on a national level. With the oversight of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) the HEIs of Pakistan to...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), which emerged as one of the largest parties at the Federal level as well as in Punjab (due to which it formed coalition Governments) and the majority party in K.P.K., where it formed its Government, placed before the people of Pakistan. It's a vision in the form...