The paper undertakes a multivariate time series analysis and shows that repressed financial markets were not in themselves a justification for financial liberalization in Pakistan in the 1990s. The study tries to analyze the possible reasons for the failure of the financial reform process in...

The aim of this paper is to establish relationship between industrial integration and social development in developing countries by investigating how education is related to labor market outcomes in the manufacturing sector for those countries which have liberalized. The results reveal that...

A successful higher education reform in the South is not limited to improvement in quality and access to higher education but it should directly and indirectly cater to the millennium development goals by ensuring pro poor pro growth outcomes. Once we link higher education reforms with a...