The broad objectives of the present study are to examine the impact of the global financial crisis as it folded during 2008 and 2009 on four major South Asian economies i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; identify policy actions taken to mitigate the adverse impacts of the crisis;...

This study by extending an earlier study by Haq and Baqai (1967) on growth, profitability and savings of companies quoted on the Karachi Stock Exchange analysis movements of these key variables and identifies key factors and events which explain them for the entire period of the 1960s.