Based on national surveys of women entrepreneurs and micro-finance clients in Nepal (135 clients) and Pakistan (104 clients). Examines the impact of micro-finance and microenterprise development on the economic and possible social empowerment of women in the two countries, highlighting...

A government job is what most job seekers look for in Pakistan. With a feudal background and job culture inherited from British India, government jobs are believed to provide security, permanency, status and privileged treatment in day to day affairs. But where entering into government jobs is...

This paper presents an overview of the Pakistani mutual fund industry and also evaluates mutual fund performance using a survivorship bias controlled sample of funds. By the end of financial year 2004, 112 billion rupees were invested in mutual funds. The main purpose of this study is to examine...

This paper attempts to determine the capital structure of listed firms in the cement industry of Pakistan. The study finds that a specific industry’s capital structure exhibits unique attributes which are usually not apparent in the combined analysis of many sectors as done by Shah & Hijazi...

This study examines impact of the introduction of single stock futures contracts on the return volatility of the SSFs-listed underlying stocks. The study documents a significant decrease in return volatility for the SSFs-underlying stocks following the introduction of single stock futures...

In this paper, we study the potential determinates of the capital structure of non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange. We analyse a sample of 445 firms listed on the KSE for the period 1997-2001. We have chosen tangibility of assets, size, firm growth rate, and profitability as...

This study examines relationship between measures of working capital management and corporate profitability. Working capital management is an important element of financial management for many firms as they make significant investment in working capital components. Applying fixed effect...

Housing is considered the basic necessity of human being and its shortage is a major problem worldwide especially in less developed countries including Pakistan. Recently the commercial banks in Pakistan have started looking for housing finance. In addition to conventional banks Islamic banks...

This paper investigates the outreach, performance, and a trade-off between both outreach & performance of microfinance banks in Pakistan. The sample consists of five scheduled microfinance banks and data ranging from 2008 to 2014, collected from the Mix Market international database. Using 13...

Corporate Governance refers to the mechanism which ensures that the affairs of a corporate body are conducted in order to serve and protect the individual and collective interests of all stakeholders. It ordains that while a firm is achieving its goal of shareholder's wealth maximization, this...