Recently added articles from Pakistan Development Review:
An investigation of firm heterogeneity in the constraints to development and growth in Pakistan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... This study considers the importance of firm characteristics in explaining the degree of business constraints facing Pakistani firms in the Investment Climate Survey. We quantify how firms with differing characteristics experience particular problems. After controlling for other factors, ...
The ultimatum game and gender effect: experimental evidence from Pakistan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Laboratory experimentation was once considered impossible or inelevant in economics. Recently, however, economic science has gone through a real 'laboratory revolution', and experimental economics is now a most lively subfield of the discipline. This study attempts to examine answers to ...
Wastewater use in cauliflower production and farmer's health: an economic analysis.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The present study aims to estimate the economic values of negative externalities of wastewater use in cauliflower production. Cost-benefit analysis is employed to estimate the farmer's health externalities in the production sector. The data are collected from 200 farmers (100 from each ...
Urban informal sector: how much women are struggling for family survival.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The paper analyses the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) to their household budget. The urban informal sector largely absorbs women workers. We examine the determinants of their contribution to their household budgets for the survival of the ...
Shahid Javed Burki. Changing Perceptions, Altered Reality: Pakistan's Economy under Musharraf 1999-2006.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Shahid Javed Burki. Changing Perceptions, Altered Reality: Pakistan's Economy under Musharraf 1999-2006. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2007. 373 pages. Hardbound. Price not given. This book is another addition to Shahid Javed Burki's work whose writings have been pivotal for ...