Multinational enterprises exist because they hold certain competitive advantages over their local counterparts and affect local economies through their spillover effects. Research streams exploring the raison d' etre and consequences of MNEs are quite distant and remote. This paper analyzes and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the assumptions underlying the population ecology theory, to point out its major weaknesses and also to suggest a solution. Design/methodology/approach: This study reviews the literature from the fields of political economy,...

The notion of existential meaning has its roots in the literature and insights of existentialist philosophy and existential phenomenology. Many figures – Erasmus, Luther, Rousseau, Newton, Decartes, Vico, Goethe, Emerson, Netizche – cried out for a deep psychological understanding. This...

The study plans to accomplish the efforts in bringing together the new dimensions of poverty dynamics in a system that will probe the causal relationship among the energy poverty, income polarization, growth and income poverty. The study is based on the hypotheses; (I) Does energy poverty cause...

This study is based on examining the relationship between stock exchange market volatility and macroeconomic variables volatility with respect to Pakistan. To measure this time series relationship for Pakistan Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) and...

The basic goal of the study is to make a vigorous endeavour to analyse the impact of energy consumption (i.e., electricity, oil and gas) on economic growth and agriculture sector output in Pakistan. It is desirable to find out relationship between disaggregate energy consumption, economic growth...