The study estimates the Value of Statistical Life and Limb in Pakistan based on the compensating wage differential among blue-collar industrial workers in the city of Lahore. The data for this study is from a survey of 680 workers who were above eighteen years of age with at least one year's...

This paper examines educational waste in the Punjab Public Schools. The paper focuses upon three areas: schools’ internal efficiency, school capacity utilisation and student teacher ratio. By using cohort analysis technique, the paper measures waste in flows of students in the education cycle....

There are three principal reasons for undertaking the present paper. First, although all the dimensions of diffusion of drug abuse are still uncertain and the existence and extent of Drug Abuse Networking (DAN) is certainly not the only factor determining the likelihood of the spread of drug...

This study is an attempt to determine the capital structure of listed firms in the chemical industry of Pakistan. The study finds that by studying a specific industry's capital structure, one can ascertain unique attributes, which are usually not apparent in the combined analysis of many sectors...

This study has been designed to obtain the statistical value of life and health in Pakistan by examining the compensating wage differentials among the blue collar workers of the manufacturing sector in Lahore. So far, no estimates based on compensated wage models or contingent valuation method...

The present study scrutinizes the relationship of Training and Development (T&D) Empowerment practices (EP) and leadership style (LS) to Organization Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in corporate sector of developing country like Pakistan. A questionnaire with Good Standard has been utilized for...

This study uses stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency of rice farms. Average technical efficiency of sampled farms was estimated to be 85 percent with a minimum of 57 percent and a maximum of 96 percent. The results further showed that the visits...

Pakistan army as a institution has been playing various role in the development of the country. The history shows that army has played a very significant role in coping up the emergencies facing the nation. Government often turn to military, when there is a natural or man induced disaster in...