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Macroeconomic impacts of cigarette consumption in Pakistan

Pakistan has a large population of tobacco users, with about 24 million adults consuming tobacco products in one form or another. There is a dearth of research on the impact of a reduction in tobacco use on Pakistan’s economy which can inform policy-makers on the extent that tobacco control… Read More

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Climate Change and Drought: Impact of Food Insecurity on Gender Based Vulnerability in District Tharparkar

Climate Change and Drought: Impact of Food Insecurity on Gender Based Vulnerability in District Tharparkar Read More

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Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province

Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province Read More

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An Empirical Analysis of Meat Demand: A Case Study of Pakistan

An Empirical Analysis of Meat Demand: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Simulating the Impact of Income Distribution on Poverty Reduction

Simulating the Impact of Income Distribution on Poverty Reduction Read More

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Gender Inequality in Labour Force Participation: An Empirical Investigation

Gender Inequality in Labour Force Participation: An Empirical Investigation Read More

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Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Role of Governance

Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Role of Governance Read More

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Incidence of General Sales Tax in Pakistan: Latest Estimates

Incidence of General Sales Tax in Pakistan: Latest Estimates Read More

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Assessing Poverty with Non-Income Deprivation Indicators: Pakistan, 2008-09

Assessing Poverty with Non-Income Deprivation Indicators: Pakistan, 2008-09 Read More

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Is Devaluation Contractionary? Empirical Evidence for Pakistan.

Is Devaluation Contractionary? Empirical Evidence for Pakistan. Read More

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Decentralisation of GST Services and Vertical Imbalances in Pakistan.

Decentralisation of GST Services and Vertical Imbalances in Pakistan. Read More

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Financial Implications of 7th NFC Award and the Impact on Social Services.

Financial Implications of 7th NFC Award and the Impact on Social Services. Read More

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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pakistan -

Urbanization and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pakistan - Read More

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The Impact of Trade and Financial-Openness on Government Size: A Case Study of Pakistan

The Impact of Trade and Financial-Openness on Government Size: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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G-20 and Development: A View from Pakistan

G-20 and Development: A View from Pakistan Read More

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Macroeconomic Environment and Financial Sector’s Performance: Econometric Evidence from three Traditional Approaches.

Macroeconomic Environment and Financial Sector’s Performance: Econometric Evidence from three Traditional Approaches. Read More

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Savings-Investment Correlation and Capital Outflow: The Case of Pakistan

Savings-Investment Correlation and Capital Outflow: The Case of Pakistan Read More

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Finance-Openness Nexus and Financial Institutions: A Case of Pakistan

Finance-Openness Nexus and Financial Institutions: A Case of Pakistan Read More

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Neo-Liberal Governance and Poverty in Pakistan

Neo-Liberal Governance and Poverty in Pakistan Read More

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Challenges and Responses for Democracy and Security: Pakistan’s Perspective

Challenges and Responses for Democracy and Security: Pakistan’s Perspective Read More

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Capitalizing the Demograhic Dividend

Capitalizing the Demograhic Dividend Read More

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Is There any Causality between Human Resource Development and Economic Growth? A Provincial Case Study on Pakistan - 2009

Is There any Causality between Human Resource Development and Economic Growth? A Provincial Case Study on Pakistan - 2009 Read More

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Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Implications for Poor People of Pakistan

Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Implications for Poor People of Pakistan Read More

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Role of Women in Peace and Conflict: Suffering of Afghan Women

Role of Women in Peace and Conflict: Suffering of Afghan Women Read More

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Mapping the Terrain: The Activities of Faith-based Organizations in Development in Pakistan

Mapping the Terrain: The Activities of Faith-based Organizations in Development in Pakistan Read More

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Direct Foreign Investment and Income Distribution: A Case Study for Pakistan

Direct Foreign Investment and Income Distribution: A Case Study for Pakistan Read More

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SAARC Prospects and Challenges

SAARC Prospects and Challenges Read More

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Bi-Directional causality Between FDI & Savings: A Case Study of Pakistan

Bi-Directional causality Between FDI & Savings: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Either Captial Account Opennes Regressive or Progressive: Economietric Evidence from Pakistan

Either Captial Account Opennes Regressive or Progressive: Economietric Evidence from Pakistan Read More

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Poor's Happiness: A Case Study of Pakistan

Macroeconomic Determinants of Poor's Happiness: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Does Globalization Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Pakistan

Does Globalization Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Pakistan Read More

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Estimating the Black Economy through a Monetary Appraoch: A Case Study of Pakistan

Estimating the Black Economy through a Monetary Appraoch: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Does Foreign Remittances Reduce Government Spending? Long and Short Run Phenomenon

Does Foreign Remittances Reduce Government Spending? Long and Short Run Phenomenon Read More

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Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: ARDL Causality in Pakistan

Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: ARDL Causality in Pakistan Read More

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Nominal and Real Devaluation Nexus & Two Econometric Approaches for Pakistan

Nominal and Real Devaluation Nexus & Two Econometric Approaches for Pakistan Read More

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The Changing Security Spectrum of South Asia: Consequences for SAARC

The Changing Security Spectrum of South Asia: Consequences for SAARC Read More

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Rural-Urban Income Inequality under Financial Development and Trade Openness in Pakistan: The Econometric Evidence

Rural-Urban Income Inequality under Financial Development and Trade Openness in Pakistan: The Econometric Evidence Read More

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Dynamism in the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Pakistan

Dynamism in the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Pakistan Read More

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Trade and Inequality Nexus in Pakistan: Under Investigation of Alternative Techniques

Trade and Inequality Nexus in Pakistan: Under Investigation of Alternative Techniques Read More

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An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: A Case for Pakistan

An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: A Case for Pakistan Read More

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Remittances and Financial Sector's Performance: Under Two Alternative Approaches for Pakistan

Remittances and Financial Sector's Performance: Under Two Alternative Approaches for Pakistan Read More

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Une Question de Perception

Une Question de Perception Read More

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The Changing Security Spectrum and Issues of Cultural Identitity

The Changing Security Spectrum and Issues of Cultural Identitity Read More

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Stock Returns and Inflation: An ARDL Econometric Investigation Utilizing Pakistani Data

Stock Returns and Inflation: An ARDL Econometric Investigation Utilizing Pakistani Data Read More

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Long-Run and Short-Run Linkage between Financial Development and Poverty Reducation in Pakistan

Long-Run and Short-Run Linkage between Financial Development and Poverty Reducation in Pakistan Read More

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Ideological Divide of theNonprofit Sector in Pakistan

Ideological Divide of theNonprofit Sector in Pakistan Read More

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Does Inequality Matter for Poverty Reducation? Evidence from Pakistan's Poverty Trends

Does Inequality Matter for Poverty Reducation? Evidence from Pakistan's Poverty Trends Read More

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How External Shocks and Exchange Rate Depreciations Affect Pakistan? Implications for Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime

How External Shocks and Exchange Rate Depreciations Affect Pakistan? Implications for Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime Read More

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Exports, Productivity and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Exports, Productivity and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis Read More

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Short-Run Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan

Short-Run Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan Read More

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Is Search of Poverty Predictors: The Case of Urban and Rural Pakistan

Is Search of Poverty Predictors: The Case of Urban and Rural Pakistan Read More

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Impact of Ownership and Concentration of Land on Schooling

Impact of Ownership and Concentration of Land on Schooling Read More

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Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in Pakistan

Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in Pakistan Read More

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Macroeconomic Reforms and Return to Human Captial in Pakistan

Macroeconomic Reforms and Return to Human Captial in Pakistan Read More

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Agricultural Terms of Trade in Pakistan: Issues of Profitability and Standard of Living of the Farmers

Agricultural Terms of Trade in Pakistan: Issues of Profitability and Standard of Living of the Farmers Read More

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Is Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector Competitive?

Is Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector Competitive? Read More

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On the Causal Relationship between Government Expenditure and Tax Revenue in Pakistan

On the Causal Relationship between Government Expenditure and Tax Revenue in Pakistan Read More

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Zakat as a Social Safety Net: Exploring the Impat on Household welfare in Pakistan

Zakat as a Social Safety Net: Exploring the Impat on Household welfare in Pakistan Read More

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Why Private Investment in Pakistan has Collasped and How it can be Restored

Why Private Investment in Pakistan has Collasped and How it can be Restored Read More

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Chapter on Pakistan

Chapter on Pakistan Read More

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Factors Influencing of Girls' Primary Enrolment in Pakistan

Factors Influencing of Girls' Primary Enrolment in Pakistan Read More

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Health Demand and Outcomes in Pakistan

Health Demand and Outcomes in Pakistan Read More

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Burden of Stabilization on Provinces and its Implication on Social Sectors

Burden of Stabilization on Provinces and its Implication on Social Sectors Read More

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Public Private Partnership in the Health Sector: Evidence from a Developing Country

Public Private Partnership in the Health Sector: Evidence from a Developing Country Read More

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Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education

Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education Read More

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Poverty and Inequality During the Adjustment Decade: Empirical Findings from Household Surveys

Poverty and Inequality During the Adjustment Decade: Empirical Findings from Household Surveys Read More

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Changes in Returns to Education in Pakistan: 1990-2002

Changes in Returns to Education in Pakistan: 1990-2002 Read More

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Income Patterns of Woman Workers in Pakistan- A Case Study of the Urban Manufacturing Sector

Income Patterns of Woman Workers in Pakistan- A Case Study of the Urban Manufacturing Sector Read More

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Relationship Between Health Expenditure and GDP in an Augmented Solow Growth Model for Pakistan: An Application of Co-integration and Error Correction Modelling

Relationship Between Health Expenditure and GDP in an Augmented Solow Growth Model for Pakistan: An Application of Co-integration and Error Correction Modelling Read More

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Emerging Macroeconomic Imbalances

Emerging Macroeconomic Imbalances Read More

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The Periods of Disinvestment in Different Sectors of the Pakistan Economy

The Periods of Disinvestment in Different Sectors of the Pakistan Economy Read More

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Socioeconomic and Environment Conditions and Diarrhoeal Disease among Children in Pakistan

Socioeconomic and Environment Conditions and Diarrhoeal Disease among Children in Pakistan Read More

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Trade, Investment and Growth Nexus in Pakistan: An Application of Cointegration and Multivariate Causality Test

Trade, Investment and Growth Nexus in Pakistan: An Application of Cointegration and Multivariate Causality Test Read More

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Measurement of Cost of Capital for Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan: A Neoclassical Approach

Measurement of Cost of Capital for Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan: A Neoclassical Approach Read More

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Foreign Capital Inflows and Domestic Savings in Pakistan: Co-integration Techniques and Error Correction Modelling

Foreign Capital Inflows and Domestic Savings in Pakistan: Co-integration Techniques and Error Correction Modelling Read More

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Non-profit Sector in Pakistan: Government Policy and Future Issues

Non-profit Sector in Pakistan: Government Policy and Future Issues Read More

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Hidden Subsidies

Hidden Subsidies Read More

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Gender and Public Spending on Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Disaggregated Benefit Incidence

Gender and Public Spending on Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Disaggregated Benefit Incidence Read More

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Households Characteristics, Poverty and Indebtedness Among Woman Workers in Urban Pakistan

Households Characteristics, Poverty and Indebtedness Among Woman Workers in Urban Pakistan Read More

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The Long run and Short run Impact of Exchange Rate Devaluation on Pakistan's Trade Performance

The Long run and Short run Impact of Exchange Rate Devaluation on Pakistan's Trade Performance Read More

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On the Estimation of an Absolute Poverty Line: An Empirical Appraisal

On the Estimation of an Absolute Poverty Line: An Empirical Appraisal Read More

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Sindh Provincial Finance Commission (PFC) Award: First Step Towards Local Government Autonomy

Sindh Provincial Finance Commission (PFC) Award: First Step Towards Local Government Autonomy Read More

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Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in the 1990s

Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in the 1990s Read More

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Stabilization Policy vs Growth Oriented Policy: Implications for the Pakistan Economy

Stabilization Policy vs Growth Oriented Policy: Implications for the Pakistan Economy Read More

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Crowding out Hypothesis in a Vector Error Correction Framework: A Case Study of Pakistan

Crowding out Hypothesis in a Vector Error Correction Framework: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Dynamic Consequences of 1997 NFC Award: Provincial Social Sector Expenditure

Dynamic Consequences of 1997 NFC Award: Provincial Social Sector Expenditure Read More

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Elasticity and Buoyancy of Major Taxes in Pakistan

Elasticity and Buoyancy of Major Taxes in Pakistan Read More

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Co-integration & Causality Between Money Supply and Inflation: A Case of Pakistan

Co-integration & Causality Between Money Supply and Inflation: A Case of Pakistan Read More

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Governance, Decentralisation and Poverty: The Case of Pakistan

Governance, Decentralisation and Poverty: The Case of Pakistan Read More

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Devolution and Fiscal Decentralisation

Devolution and Fiscal Decentralisation Read More

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Pakistan's Trade Performance vis-à-vis its Major Trading Partners

Pakistan's Trade Performance vis-à-vis its Major Trading Partners Read More

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Some Issues of Governance in Pakistan

Some Issues of Governance in Pakistan Read More

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Fiscal Decentralisation: Lessons from the South Asian Experience

Fiscal Decentralisation: Lessons from the South Asian Experience Read More

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Impediments to Improvements of Social Services in Pakistan

Impediments to Improvements of Social Services in Pakistan Read More

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The City of Karachi: Planning and Managing for Urban Development

The City of Karachi: Planning and Managing for Urban Development Read More

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Impediments to Social Development in Pakistan

Impediments to Social Development in Pakistan Read More

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Pakistan's Ranking in Social Development: Have We Always Been Backward?

Pakistan's Ranking in Social Development: Have We Always Been Backward? Read More

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Gender Inequality in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan

Gender Inequality in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan Read More

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Fifty Years of Public Finance in Pakistan

Fifty Years of Public Finance in Pakistan Read More

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Facilitating the Provision of Farm Credit: The Role of Interlocking Transactions Between Traders and Zamindars in Crop Marketing Systems in Sindh

Facilitating the Provision of Farm Credit: The Role of Interlocking Transactions Between Traders and Zamindars in Crop Marketing Systems in Sindh Read More

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Political Economy of Tax: A Study on Improving the Efficiency & Effectiveness of Spending in the Social Sectors & Increasing Resources Mobilisation in the Provinces

Political Economy of Tax: A Study on Improving the Efficiency & Effectiveness of Spending in the Social Sectors & Increasing Resources Mobilisation in the Provinces Read More

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The Determinants of Rates of Octroi Tax in Pakistan

The Determinants of Rates of Octroi Tax in Pakistan Read More

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