Growth is a matter of extreme importance for the countries of developed and developing world. Sustained growth with employment generating policies eventually trims down the critical problem of unemployment. This paper emphasizes the link between GDP per capita and unemployment rate, as described...

The objective of this study is to estimate and analyze the Islamic banks efficiency in South Asian Countries. The study sample consists of four countries i.e. Pakistan, Iran, Brunei and Bangladesh for being similar legal, social and economic framework for Islamic banking systems. Stochastic...

The objective of the study examines the impact of industrialization and financial development on water resources, in the specific context of Pakistan. Data set from 1975-2009 are taken for time series analysis. The result reveals that economic growth positively linked with the water resource, as...

The current study focuses primarily on estimating private rate of return for two successive degrees of higher education in Pakistan namely M.Phil and PhD. Sensitivity analysis on calculations of the average private rate of return to university education is undertaken. This involves checking how...

Pakistan is a developing country, where health is at a low priority. “Health for All” is the buzzword used by government health agencies in the last twenty years which covers healthcare development countrywide. This paper reviews the 17 years’ progress in the Healthcare segment, from 1991...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate a two-way statistical relationship between the real external debt and real military expenditure in the context of Bangladesh. A time series co-integration and Granger causality tests have been employed from 1980 - 2009 for analysis. The...

The objective of the study is to investigate the most promising economic variables i.e., foreign direct investment (FDI), exports and financial development on economic growth in selected South Asian Association of Regional Co-corporation (SAARC) countries. In addition, this study argued that...

It has been observed that professional and qualified teacher’s retention become a challenge for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Pakistan as the turnover rate has been significantly increased in recent years. The main objective of this paper is to access personal, push and pull factors...