Predicting the ebb and flow of stock markets is a complex and challenging exercise owing to the disruptive and uncertain behavior of stock prices. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of an event that, had a drastic ...

With rising growth rates and per capita income levels on the Indian subcontinent, foreign direct investment in the region, especially through mergers and acquisitions, has increased over the past decade. Using transaction ...

Pomegranates are one of the most important fruits in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, which is famous for its pomegranates around the world. Pomegranates play a vital role in the socio-economic life of those who ...

This study investigates the impact of various fiscal policy instruments on the income inequality of Pakistan using an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model on annual data. We find that direct taxes reduce income ...

It is essential that policymakers consider cyclical changes in output. Monthly industrial production is one of the most important and commonly used macroeconomic indicators for this purpose. However, monthly estimates ...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Pakistan was declared mandatory under section 12 of the Pakistan Environment Protection Act (PEPA) of 1997 and operationalized under the Initial Environmental Examination/Environmental ...

Making use of the Signaling Theory, this dissertation investigates the impact of expertise of third-party endorsement (TPE) and self-susceptibility to product placement in vlogs in forming the para-social relationship ...

This research has assessed how financial literacy and fear of COVID-19 affect financial anxiety and investor optimism. It has also assessed how anxiety and optimism impact risk tolerance. Gender and education have also ...

Population growth is one of the most salient problems faced by developing countries today. Population growth, if not checked, can decrease living standards and lead to high rates of unemployment in the future. South Asia, ...

Research has shown that refugees face numerous challenges after displacement which they have to cope with using different survival techniques, out of which, resilience plays a major role. Refugees in developing countries ...