Socio-economic Determinants of Labour Mobility in Pakistan

Socio-economic determinants of household out-of-pocket payments on healthcare in Pakistan

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on healthcare is dominant mode of financing in developing countries. In Pakistan it is 67% of total expenditure on healthcare. Analysis of determinants of OOP health expenditure is a key aspect of equity in healthcare financing. It helps to formulate an effective health policy. Evidence on OOP in Pakistan is sparse. This paper attempts to fill this researc...

Investigating socio-economic-demographic determinants of tobacco use in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

BACKGROUND To investigate the socio-economic and demographic determinants of tobacco use in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS Cross sectional survey of households (population based) with 2018 respondent (1038 Rural; 980 Urban) was carried out in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) and included males and females 18-65 years of age. Main outcome measure was self reported daily tobacco use. RESULTS Overall 16.5...

Economic Growth and its Determinants in Pakistan

This paper aims to investigate the impact of macroeconomic variables on economic growth after Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) in Pakistan. In doing so, study utilizes the quarterly time series data from 1990 to 2007. Advanced Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) approach has been employed for co-integration and error correction model (ECM) for short-run results in the case of Pakista...

Determinants of women’s labour supply in Bangladesh and Pakistan

Socio-economic Impacts of Unemployment in Urban Faisalabad, Pakistan

The current study was conducted to investigate the socio-economic impacts of unemployment in urban Faisalabad with regard to the characteristics, magnitude and direction of changes in social relationships, and the attitude of unemployed people towards the society. For this purposes, one hundred respondents were randomly selected from Faisalabad city. A majority of the respondents strongly indic...