This study aims to investigate the impact of internal and external determinants of economic growth on the economic growth of Pakistan. Major internal determinants include stock of physical capital and developmental expenditures, while external determinants include trade openness and real...

Value added tax (VAT) is considered as the reform tax system of the 21st century, which has been implemented popularly in more than 135 countries in the world. In SAARC region, Pakistan was the first adaptor of VAT. It implemented VAT in 1990. The basic objective of the study is to quantify the...

The main objective of this study is to examine the perceptions of corporate customers towards Islamic banking products and services in Pakistan. The study discusses the three main parameters i) the usage of conventional and Islamic banking facilities, ii) respondents’ understanding of Islamic...

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between bank-specific and macro-economic characteristics over bank profitability by using data of top fifteen Pakistani commercial banks over the period 2005-2009. This paper uses the pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS) method to...