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Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial institutions are designed to support the process of accumulation of wealth, which is at the heart...
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including Pakistan. Large masses living in this world particularly South Asian country (that is home to over one fifth of the … world’s population) is still striving for it. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exclusion to that state. The … questionnaire from both rural and urban regions of district Abbottabad, Pakistan at HHs premises. The objective was to discover the …
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What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...
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This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...
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We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales … determination in Pakistan, and that policies that promote the private sector wheat trade can both increase price stability and …
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The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the anomalies in the allowances structure to show that appropriate remuneration for the civil servants...
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The study investigates the impact of changes in terms of trade in Pakistan on its income and consumption potentials, by … employing two measures of terms of trade, namely, barter terms of trade and income terms of trade. The study examines Pakistan … Pakistan, as it ultimately reduces gross domestic product. …
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for Pakistan. Using a modified version of Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) developed by Enders and Hurn (2007), we …
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unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. We have examined the determinants of urban poverty in Sargodha, a medium-size city of … Pakistan. The analysis is based on the survey of 330 households. Results suggest that employment in public sector, investment …
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