This paper has two-fold objectives. First, to present an external debt profile of the country, and second, to perform a risk analysis on external indebtedness using indicator approach. A review of the changes in the pattern and levels of external debt and a careful analysis of various debt...

The banking industry has undergone profound changes during the last decade. The most obvious change has been the large number of bank mergers, which have increased both the average size of banks and the area over which they operate. Other changes may also prove dramatic but are at this point...

This paper analyzes the effect of exchange rate volatility on the trade volume (Export) and the impact of REER on determinant of trade in Pakistan using timeseries data for the period 1981-2010. The result shows that REER is inversely impact on Export Volume of Pakistan. On otherside the Import...

Given contrasting evidence in the literature pertaining to the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the host country's economy, we take the case of Pakistan and test the said association for this nation. The data used for this study has spanned over the period of 1981 till 2010. Besides FDI,...