The study examines the impact of foreign direct investment, human capital, and
financial development on labor productivity, utilizing data from 2000 to 2019 and panel data
from 180 economies. The estimation technique ...
Sustainable development in the Global South faces a complex challenge, influenced
by environmental, economic, and social factors, as well as issues like poor governance, political
instability, and inequality. The literature ...
Pakistan provides export financing schemes to support exports. This study
examines two main schemes: one offered by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) through
commercial banks, and the other by the Federal Bureau of Revenue ...
Foreign aid has been an essential source of external financing for developing
countries, with the belief that it can foster growth in recipient nations. Specifically, the type
of aid known as Program Aid is particularly ...
This study assesses the impact of external shocks and exchange rate movements
on prices. The main benefit of this granular analysis is its ability to capture heterogeneous
impacts across different products and geographical ...
This study examines the impact of narcissistic and paternalistic leadership styles on employee
job embeddedness, as well as the moderating effect of leader-expressed humility on the relationship
between job embeddedness ...
This research examines how brand psychological ownership, brand intimacy, and brand trust
affect customer brand engagement and how customer brand engagement influences purchase intentions.
Utilizing a quantitative approach, ...
This study reviews the topics and methods commonly employed in qualitative accounting
research published in Scopus-indexed journals. We conducted a systematic literature review with
bibliometric analysis, examining 149 ...
In a struggling and volatile economy like Pakistan, studying corporate financial distress (FD)
is critically important. The current sustainability-oriented economic dynamics have made the connection
between corporate ...
This study examines the influence of four possible antecedents related to employees’ readiness for
change (RFC): normative commitment, affective commitment, continuance commitment, and high-performance human resource ...
This study investigates the impact of oil price fluctuations on inflation in Pakistan, focusing
specifically on asymmetric effects. Employing the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL)
model, it examines how ...
Productivity growth has remained slow in Asian countries. The study examines the impact
of digitalization and innovation on output productivity in four Asian countries: China, India,
Bangladesh, and Pakistan, using data ...
The study examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on Pakistan's
macroeconomic framework, emphasizing improved capital efficiency and technological advancements.
Utilizing a Computable General ...
This study evaluates the effectiveness of monetary policy in controlling inflation in Pakistan.
Using quarterly data from 1980 to 2022, the study finds that the policy rate is either an ineffective or
counterproductive ...
This study contributes to the literature that highlights the penalties of education-occupation
mismatch in terms of earnings across different employment statuses. Most existing literature analyzing
the education-occupation ...
This study narrates the history of trade liberalization in Pakistan from 1972 to 2021. It
outlines the history of trade reforms, which is divided into three distinct periods: the partial trade
liberalization period from ...
This study explores the connection between financial inclusion and inclusive growth,
highlighting the pressing need for such growth in contemporary Pakistan alongside the ongoing efforts to
enhance financial inclusion ...
The exchange rate is an important tool for enhancing exports in emerging economies. To
quantify the role of the exchange rate in determining trade in Pakistan, this paper presents estimates of
the elasticities of relative ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the information content in the consumer
confidence index explains demand in Pakistan, beyond economic fundamentals. We use a wide range of
models, starting from ordinary ...
This study utilizes interim multipliers analysis based on a VAR-X model to investigate the
impacts of changes in the world’s crude oil prices on output growth rates, inflation rates, real exchange
rates, and real interest ...