Ahmed Raza Ul Mustafa

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• Post-Doctorate (Economics)
• Post-Doc Research Fellow at University of Malaya

This research article analyses the stock return and volatility of three selected SAARC countries (Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh), focusing on the role of natural resources in influencing market performance. This study aims to determine the robustness of the performance, considering the economic significance of these countries' natural resources....

Purpose Social protection states the public-mandated (strategies and programmes) to address the vulnerability and risk among poor and near-poor households. Social protection must not only help people meet their basic needs but also contribute to the long-term well-being and broader societal goals of equity, social justice and empowerment. The role...

Our research makes an effort to highlight the role of human capital, information communication and technology and financial development in increasing economic growth of Asian economies based on panel data of eight Asian nations. We have used GDP per capita as the dependent variable. The authors have used the random effect technique to check how hum...

This study compares the features of homicide-suicide in Russia and Pakistan. To understand this, we conducted a content analysis of news reports about homicide-suicide published in Pakistani and Russian newspapers between March 2020 and May 2023. We identified 35 and 104 homicide-suicide cases in Pakistani and Russian media, respectively. Men were...

Suicidal hanging is common in Pakistan and is considered a serious challenge globally. We conducted a content analysis of reports about suicidal hangings published in six English-language newspapers in Pakistan between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022, employing a web�searching technique. 124 news reports were yielded; suicidal authors were mal...

Pakistan is facing severe level of food insecurity in terms of physical and economic access. In this regard, current study will focus to empirically investigate the leading determinants of food insecurity by using HIES 2019 data set. Household Expenditures Survey (HES) method will be used to find the status of food insecurity in Pakistan. In this m...

Forecasting is an attractive topic in every field of study because no one knows the exact nature of the underlying phenomena, but it can be guessed using mathematical functions. As the world progresses towards technology and betterment, algorithms are updated to understand the nature of ongoing phenomena. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are an upd...

This study analyzes the complex relationship between corruption, governance, and government revenue. It explores some of the collective influence approaches to corruption and Governance on Government revenue. The panel data of ninety-six countries from 2005 to 2020 is being collected from the Corruption perception index (CPI), World development ind...

It is an empirical exercise to build the connection between investment in human/ physical capital and economic growth. A panel data set is targeted by considering twelve selected SAARC and ASEAN economies for the period 2005-2019. To get the empirical findings a unit root analysis is made for data stationarity; the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squ...

A number of the countries in the world are breathing under the shadow of hostilities and terror. Many developing countries squander major part of their GDP on defense to sustain their sovereignty. Border clashes with India and Afghanistan, Pakistan has to spend massive budget on defense. Therefore, Pakistan has been facing fiscal deficit every year...

An understanding about the dynamics of social protection spending is made in the context of structural and institutional performances. A dataset of 134 countries for the period 1999–2018 is used for analysis. Rank Analysis is made conditional on (1) fiscal budgeting; (2) structural landscapes, and (3) the institutional performance measures to gener...

Populism rises in the milieu of political catastrophes when the political structure's status quo looks unable to reply to the populations' needs. This phenomenon leads to inequality. Inequality becomes a familiar, burning, and perplexing spectacle. In this study, inequality is accentuated in the perspective of populism and seigniorage. Populism emp...

The study aims to investigate the impact of seasonality in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ share market during the month of Ramadan. It helps in finding the opportunities for stock market investors to earn abnormal (returns) gain by investing during Ramadan in GCC stock markets. This study uses stock returns data of GCC countries (Saudi A...

The mean technical efficiency of strawberry farmers was assessed using a stochastic frontier approach in the districts of Charsadda and Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. By using multistage sampling technique, 382 respondent's data was collected. Cobb Douglass functional form was chosen for stochastic frontier analysis by using a generalized log-likeli...

Purpose of the study: This study investigates Short-run, Long-run, and Casual relationships in the Asian Developed and Emerging stock market indices for the period of 19 years weekly data of stock market indices of Asian Developed and Emerging Markets which are Japan (Nikkei 225), South Korea (KOSPI), Pakistan (KSE 100), China (SSE Composite), Sri...

The current study is subject to examine whether the climatic changes have any impact on the production of wheat, sugarcane, and land revenue which is a source of earning for the farmer. The data of crop production, land revenue, and indicators of environmental and agricultural accessories were obtained from statistical year books at the national an...

Purpose of the study: Social protection contains policies and programs to reduce poverty and enhance economic development. Through several ways, investments can be made in the health and education sector to produce a high potential labour force that leads to economic growth. The quantitative approaches that have been used on the augmented productio...

This study tries to assess the Pakistani rice producer’s behaviour under the exchange rate volatility. The exchange rate variability is a risk which may force the producers to change their production preferences. The Cobb-Douglas production function used to examine the functional association between exchange rate variability and behaviour of Pakist...

Day by day world goes to adopt new trends in business and all businesses are frequently moving to capture targeted customers and earn maximum benefit. However, entrepreneurship is way to start business without any high investment unquestionably it is a business where ideas are more important than investment on other side social media is convenient...

This study has tried to capture the influence of climate change on the major agricultural crops in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Different crops are cultivated in Sindh but the major ones are Wheat, Cotton, Sugarcane, Maze and Rice. This study conducted an empirical analysis to justify the impact of climate change on these crops and to distinguish...

This paper analyzes the dynamics of social protection expenditures in the context of structural and institutional characteristics across provinces in Pakistan. A rank and regression analysis is employed on a panel dataset for four provinces of Pakistan namely Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP), Balochistan, Sindh, and Punjab; over a period of 1988 to 2014. The...

This study has tried to capture the influence of climate change on the major agricultural crops in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Different crops are cultivated in Sindh but the major ones are Wheat, Cotton, Sugarcane, Maze and Rice. This study conducted an empirical analysis to justify the impact of climate change on these crops and to distinguish...

This paper examines the role of social protection through different channels (education, health, social transfers, subsidies, etc.) which are helpful in reducing poverty in Pakistan. Unlike the existing literature, the paper considers the quantitative model of social protection policies to reduce the poverty. To handle this issue, a time series dat...

This paper examines the impact of loan loss provisions of the banks on the performance of the banks operating in Pakistan. Moreover the other factors that affect the banking profitability have been discussed in this study. Our results show that the loan loss provision of the banks is of paramount importance in affecting its profitability. A well-ma...

This article examines the link between agricultural raw material exports and agricultural raw material imports in the developing economy like Pakistan. Using the annual data from 1971-2007, this study finds that agricultural raw material exports and agricultural raw material imports are cointegrated. There is unidirectional causality from agricultu...