The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Security Challenges

Impact of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor on snow cover and glaciers in the Himalayan, Karakorum, and Hindukush region

Economic Challenges Facing Pakistan the Role of the United States

Pakistan’s new government which assumed office under President Musharraf in October 1999 was faced with four main challenges: heavy external and domestic indebtedness; high fiscal deficit and low revenue generation capacity; rising poverty and unemployment; weak balance of payments. In addition, Pakistan was perceived as a highly corrupt country with poor governance. A survey by Transparency In...

Comparison of the Economic Profitability of a Conventional Freight-Dedicated Railway Corridor and a Heavy Load Freight Corridor

By using mathematical models, this paper will compare the economic profitability of a heavy load freight corridor (30 t per axle) with a conventional freight-dedicated railway corridor (22.5 t per axle). This comparison concerns the construction and operation of a new, single-track of normal gauge, exclusively for freight traffic, and takes into account various demand values of freight volume (...

the impact of "security" on economic strategy of china toward central asia

security priorities of a country are not only affected by its internal situation, but sometimes regional situation is also a determinant factor of these priorities. the effectiveness of regional situations is especially when the subject country has a growing economy. after the collapse of ussr, the central asia had the same effect on china’s security priorities. china is an emerging global powe...

Food Security and Economic Growth

T  his study aimed to examine the relationship between food security, health and economic growth. These three components together form the vertices of a triangle. How much does food security strategies in a country bring more health to its people? Is the  healthy population richer? What is the impact of health on income, and to what extent are income variation am...