Md. Saiful Islam

Md. Saiful Islam
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University of Ha'il · Economics & Finance

Ph.D in Economics

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Introduction
Md. Saiful Islam is a Professor of economics. He does research in socio-economics, development economics and macroeconomics.
Education
April 1998 - March 2001
Niigata University
Field of study
  • Economics

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Publications (79)
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This paper investigates the remittance and economic growth relationship using annual panel data for the period 1986-2019 on selected South Asian economies with trade openness (TOP) and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow as control variables. The cross-sectional dependency test, second-generation panel unit root test, panel generalized least squ...
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This study explores the influence of financial development (FD) on CO2 emissions in five South Asian economies including energy consumption (ENC) and per capita income (PCI) as control variables. Using annual panel data for the period 1980-2018, this study applies the second-generation unit root and cointegration tests, panel pooled generalized lea...
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Economic growth brings fortune to a society, but it worsens the ecosystem and results in environmental pollution through carbon dioxide (CO) emissions. Despite extensive literature, the impact of economic growth on the environment is inconclusive, and the application of the environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the case of South Asia is v...
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This study examines the trade-led growth (TLG) hypothesis for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Using time-series annual data for the period 1985-2019, the ARDL approach and Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality test are applied to accomplish the study. The ARDL estimation reveals that trade openness positively causes economic growth both in the long and shor...
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Export earnings and remittance income are the two primary sources of finance for Bangladesh’s economic growth. This study aims to investigate the impact of export earnings and remittance income on gender equality in Bangladesh, considering economic growth, financial development, life expectancy, and average schooling years as control variables. It...
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Under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), implementing low-carbon economic cooperation is crucial to combating climate change and preserving sustainability worldwide. The paper checks the asymmetric (non-linear) effects of Chinese FDI flows on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 24 selected nations from the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia regions...
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Foreign remittance has become an essential source of wealth in recent decades, with far-reaching effects on various economic indices and CO2 emissions. This research examines the impact of remittances and disaggregated energy consumption on CO2 emissions in an "Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)" framework utilizing a global sample of 46 top remitta...
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This study examines the impact of blockchain technology (BCT) and corporate governance practices on firm performance. Using GMM on a sample of 2,844 firms, the results show that BCT improves firm performance. The results show an average difference in corporate governance and financial variables between BCT firms and firms from other sectors. In the...
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Intelligent machines are the machines or devices that make use of artificial intelligence and robotics technologies. It has the ability to accomplish a specific task in the presence of uncertainty and variability in its operating environment. Certainly, it can be used to support information and communication technology to streamline the creation, c...
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The livelihoods of individuals in the contemporary era are primarily contingent upon the accessibility and affordability of natural energy sources. Among these, oil and gas are paramount as foundational resources that contribute to the modernization of lifestyles. However, the accessibility and affordability of these indispensable commodities can b...
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Economic policies often play a substantial role in shaping environmental quality worldwide. In light of this, this research analyzes the impact of economic policy, particularly “fiscal and monetary policy (FMP)” on CO2 discharges and ecological footprint (EF) in South Asian (SA) countries based on the “environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)” framework,...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) rely on a thriving distribution network and digital technologies, including the metaverse, to remain competitive. The retail industry is perceived as a portfolio-based and granular business. Hence, retail SMEs can be a key source of innovation and a major source of growth that need technical flexibility to...
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Climatic change and environmental degradation have become a worldwide discourse. Green innovation is commonly viewed as a means of lowering environmental pollution in the era of climate change. Considering this, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of environmental technology (ET) on CO 2 emissions by controlling Saudi Ar...
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OpenAI‟s ChatGPT is a widely used artificial intelligence tool that has recently experienced rapid growth and widespread adoption. ChatGPT enhances digital accessibility, performance in communication, and supports the creation of digital content, which can be a powerful assistive technology for the education industry. However, the role of ChatGPT f...
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This study focuses on how remittance outflow shapes the economic growth (EG) performance in leading remittance-sending nations, considering the role of trade, ICT, and human and physical capital as control variables. It utilizes panel data from 1990 to 2021 and utilizes second-generation econometric methods. Our findings reveal a cointegration amon...
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Many emerging countries rely on incoming remittances to finance their economic growth, as remittance inflow has a variety of positive knock-on effects. This study looks at the "remittance-growth nexus" among the top twenty nations that earn remittances, considering regulatory quality, trade openness, energy consumption, and financial development as...
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ICT use has significantly increased over the years across the world, including Saudi Arabia. This study links ICT with economic growth (EG) in Saudi Arabia, controlling human capital (HC) and COVID-19. We employ time-series annual data from 1990 to 2021, a nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) approach, and a cointegrating regression ana...
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Purpose: Personal remittance and ready-made garments (RMG) export incomes have emerged as the largest source of foreign income for Bangladesh’s economy. The study investigates their impact on income inequality and GDP as a control variable, using time-series yearly data from 1983 to 2018. Methodology: It employs the ARDL estimation and the Toda-Ya...
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Climatic events and environmental problems have emerged as worldwide concerns. In the era of global climate change, green innovation is widely believed to ease environmental pollution. Against this backdrop, this study represents the first effort to explore the uneven effects of environmental technology (ENVT) on CO2 emissions controlling economic...
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The significance of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the production of non-metallic and metallic mineral resources, encompassing oil and copper, cannot be overstated. However, this pivotal role is accompanied by inherent uncertainties arising from geopolitical events. This research examines the response of oil and copper production to the economy of u...
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This research is the maiden attempt to focus on the linkage between remittance outflow and environmental quality in Saudi Arabia, controlling ICT, environmental innovation, and energy consumption. It employs annual data from 1990 to 2020 and applies asymmetric and symmetric analyses based on “nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL)” and “a...
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This study investigates the asymmetric effects of remittance on economic growth and environmental equality in the purview of energy use, regulatory quality (REQ), and financial development in the top 20 remittance-earning countries. It employs panel data from 1996 to 2020 and utilizes the generalized least square (GLS) estimation and the Dumitrescu...
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This study looks into ICT's asymmetrical impact on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) controlling energy use and financial development (FD) in GCC countries. It uses panel data covering 1995–2019, employs 2nd generation unit root and Westerlund cointegration tests, and applies panel-pooled “generalized least square (GLS)” techniques. The “pooled mea...
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The readymade garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh contributes more than 80% of the country's total export earnings. The study aims to explore the existence of the RMG export-led growth (ELG) proposition for Bangladesh. It employs a neoclassical growth function augmented by RMG export incomes and foreign direct investment (FDI), uses yearly data fro...
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This study examines how "information and communication technology (ICT)" affect carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations asymmetrically, controlling energy consumption, its intensity, trade, and financial development following an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It employs panel data covering the years 199...
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Purpose: This study examines the influence of urbanization on energy consumption, including economic growth, globalization, and “foreign direct investment (FDI)” inflow as control variables. Methodology: This study uses yearly panel data from 19071 to 2018 on five selected South Asian economies. It applies the "pooled mean group (PMG)" estimator a...
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Saudi Arabia is the leading economy in the Arabian Gulf region, it accounts for a significant amount of remittance outflow (RMO) to the rest of the world. The objective of the study is to investigate the impact of remittance outflow on the economic growth (EG) of Saudi Arabia by utilizing time-series data from 1985 to 2019 controlling trade, labor...
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Please cite this article as: Islam, M.S., Alhamad, I.A, Impact of financial development and institutional quality on remittance-growth nexus: evidence from the topmost remittance-earning economies, HELIYON, https://doi. Abstract This study investigates the asymmetric impact of personal remittances on economic growth (EG) having financial developmen...
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Purpose This study examines the impact of institutional quality (INQ) and human capital creation (HCC) on economic growth (EG) linkage in Bangladesh using an ARDL approach. Design/methodology/approach This study uses time-series annual data over the period 1990–2019. It formulates an INQ index based on international country risk guide (ICRG) data,...
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Energy and green innovation are important to a country's economic progress, but the externalities of increased pollution as a result of a rise in energy used and economic growth must not be overlooked. Within the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) framework, this study aims to check empirically the e...
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This study intends to examine the influence of trade openness on economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including government consumption and labor force as control variables. Using time-series yearly data from 1985 to 2019, the study applies the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration regression and the Toda-Yamamoto (T-Y) Gran...
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This study aims to examine the asymmetric impact of personal remittances on environmental pollution with financial development (FD) as an explanatory variable. It utilizes annual panel data on the top eight remittance-receiving countries, employs panel generalized least square (GLS) method, pooled mean group (PMG) model, and the Dumitrescu-Hurlin (...
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Md. Saiful Islam  The study investigates the validity of the trade-led growth (TLG) hypothesis for South Asia, with gross xed capital formation and the labor force as control variables. In the presence of cross-sectional dependency, it applies the cross-sectional dependency test, second-generation panel cointegration test, pooled mean group (PMG)...
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This study analyzes aggregate data on trade flows to examine the performance of bilateral free trade agreements (BFTAs) between the United States and 11 BFTA nations in a two-dimensional approach. In line with the literature, this study applies the gravity model and analyzes the effect of the treatment using Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML)...
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This study investigates the influence of human capital formation (HCF) on economic growth in Bangladesh based on an ARDL approach The outlay on health and government education spending each as a fraction of gross domestic product (GDP), is used as a proxy for HCF, while the growth rate of GDP is used to measure economic growth. The Autoregressive D...
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The study examines the asymmetric influence of exports on economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using an augmented neoclassical production function incorporating export earnings and oil-rent. It uses time series yearly data from 1985 to 2019 published by the World Bank, employs the non-linear ARDL (NARDL) approach and Toda-Yamamoto (T-Y) G...
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In modern days, economic growth is energy-dependent and vice versa. Earlier studies concentrated a bit to analyze the influence of globalization and politico-administrative factors on the energy consumption-economic growth nexus in developing economies. The motivation for the current research is to scrutinize the energy consumption-economic growth...
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Purpose A wetland is a place of tourist attraction, and tourism values play a key role in economic development. Among various services provided by a wetland, recreational services are increasingly valuable in the tourism sector. This paper aims to unfold the potential recreational values of the Dal Lake in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Design/methodol...
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Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of socioeconomic development on inflation in South Asia using the foreign exchange rate and money supply as control variables. Design/methodology/approach The study uses annual panel data for five South Asian economies, namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka over the period 1990–20...
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This study attempts to explore the cointegration among economic growth rate, ready-made garments (RMG) exports earning and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in Bangladesh. It uses time-series annual data for the period 1986–2018. The study applies ARDL bound testing to determine cointegration among the variables, and pairwise Granger causality...
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Abstract Background: Undernourishment is a big public health challenge for humanity across the world. It directly affects human workability and the economy of a nation. Undernourishment at the early stage of life has a long-lasting effect on a person's life that affects his personal development and economic growth of a country and thus, has far-rea...
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Background: Undernourishment is a major public health challenge worldwide, with severe economic consequences. If occurs in the first years of life, it may cause long-lasting effect, particularly regarding personal development and economic growth of the country. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the influence of socioeconomic factor...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the most important factors that affect the capital structure of commercial banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach This study uses annual data of 11 Saudi commercial, national banks listed on the tadawul Saudi stock exchange for the period 2010–2017. Data was collected f...
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This paper investigates the nexus between energy consumption and economic growth in Bangladesh over the period 1971-2018 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The main contribution of this study is the inclusion of exogenous dynamic (globalization), and endogenous factor (political risk indicator measured by pol...
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This study explores the linkage between human capital particularly life expectancy and literacy and GDP per capita in selected South Asian economies. The study uses annual panel data of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka for the period 2000–2016, published by the World Bank. It applies panel unit root test, Pedroni cointegration test...
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Abstract Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of Islamic microfinance services (IMFS) on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a multi-stage sampling technique. The primary data are collected through a face-to-face survey of 389 women respondents who have received IMF...
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the most important factors that affect the capital structure of commercial banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study uses annual data of 11 Saudi commercial, national banks listed on the tadawul Saudi stock exchange for the period 2010-2017. The data was collected from the banks’ financial statement...
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This study aims to explore the impact of education and health on economic growth and food security (FS) in Bangladesh. It employs economic growth rate, expenditure on education as a proxy for education, expenditure on health as a proxy for health, and fertility rate, infant mortality rate and prevalence of undernourishment as proxies for FS. Descri...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of human capital formation on economic growth of Bangladesh. The study uses the current expenditure on health and public expense on education to measure the human capital formation and growth of gross domestic product as an economic growth proxy. The study employs the time-series data for the p...
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Human development and economic growth are believed to be linked in several ways. This paper aims at examining the plausible nexus among human development and economic growth in a comparative setup between Bangladesh and Pakistan. The study was based on systematic study of available records, mainly data from the World Bank and examined the linkages...
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This paper examined the micro-finance services towards empowerment of unprivileged women in the southwestern part of Bangladesh. A sample of 300 low profile unprivileged micro-finance service receiving women equally from rural and urban areas of Khulna district were surveyed during May, 2018. Data were collected on the usage and effectiveness of mi...
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The issue of economic growth asymmetry across countries continually draws academic interest and intellectual curiosity. What really contributes to this asymmetry has puzzled the minds of economists and politicians for centuries. The new millennium raises more questions and concerns about this issue. Many developing countries have adopted outward lo...
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The ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh has got a greater facet than any other sector in terms of growth and foreign exchange earnings. It makes a significant contribution to the national economy by creating generous employment opportunities and reducing poverty through socioeconomic development. Despite unquestionable success story, thi...
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The ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh has got a greater facet than any other sector in terms of growth and foreign exchange earnings. It makes a significant contribution to the national economy by creating generous employment opportunities and reducing poverty through socioeconomic development. Despite unquestionable success story, thi...
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This paper examined the role of microcredit in women empowerment though financial inclusion. A survey was conducted among the low profile unprivileged rural women living in southwestern part of Bangladesh. Data were collected on the usage and effectiveness of microcredit and analyzed using STATA 11. Multiple regression and descriptive statistics we...
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Frequent natural calamities, extreme climatic events and unexpected seasonal changes are the obvious examples of global warming. Carbon emissions by industrial units all over the world are believed to be the major contributor of the global warming that can lead to reduced agricultural productivity. This paper examines the impact of CO emission on a...
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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of climate change on food security of the population residing in the coastal area of Bangladesh. Based on multistage random sampling technique, a survey was conducted to collect socioeconomic and food datasets of the people affected by extreme climate events in the country. The study found that climate chang...
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International migration has engrossed the augmented attention of policy makers, social scientists and international agencies. However, the development potential of international migration is yet to fully exploit due to several structural constraints within the economy. The present study aims at examining the impact of remittance as proxy of interna...
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Remittance has assumed a significant importance in Bangladesh economy, where some 4.5 million non-resident Bangladeshis are working abroad and remitting home hard-earned foreign currencies. The main objective of this study is to find out the impact of remittance inflow into rural economy of Bangladesh, for which primary data were collected through...
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This paper tests the viability of social overhead capital (SOC) as a determinant of efficiency of micro-credit operations in rural areas of Bangladesh. Households having micro-credits with proper access and with lack of access to SOC have been surveyed in the southwest region of the country. The study finds a positive relationship between availabil...
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This paper discusses the system of the public private partnership (PPP) in education in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Both the countries have adopted the system in order to have greater success in the pursuit of the goal of education for all. The secondary data used in the paper are from the World Bank report on development indicators. Pakistan has had...
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This study is a macro-level analysis of interconnectivity among economic growth, employment and poverty reduction based on the World Bank and Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics data. It employs GDP per capita, employment elasticity, poverty headcount and GINI coefficient values that mostly affect economic growth. The study employed unit root test, coi...
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This paper discusses community based ecotourism in one of the environmentally important spots in the world-the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. The discussion is based on available literature and the results of an empirical study conducted by the authors in a local community of the Sundarbans. Some of the local people in the Sundarbans have taken up activ...
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Energy is the main driving force for economic development of a country. This paper examines the linkages among energy consumption, GDP growth, gross capital formation and export earnings in Bangladesh within an econometric framework and arrived at specific policy suggestions for strengthening energy security to attain potential economic growth. Thi...
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Climatic changes that are occurring in the transnational northeastern region, a geographical region comprising Bangladesh, the northeastern region of India and West Bengal (India) are envisaged to affect the agriculture of the region adversely. Since agriculture continues to be not only the primary base of sustenance but also the primary source of...
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Rural-urban migration has long been associated with economic development and growth of urbanization from the economic perspective. Based on the household survey, this paper analyses rural to urban migration rates in Khulna City Corporation area. This paper tries to identify the main reasons of rural-urban migration in the selected areas of Khulna C...
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PUBLIC PRIVATE PERTNERSHIP (PPP) IN EDUCATION: ENDLESS LIKELIHOOD OF NEW STRETCHING IN PAKISTAN Education is a critical area of activity for national development . The “ public good ” character education and the scale of effort required to meet society ’ s needs in these area call for close cooperation of all stakeholders in both public and...
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Information is a mature technology, but it is an immature economic literature resource bank to make decisions over producing information goods. Many of the conceptual frameworks, production issues remain virgin to economic analysis. So, it is a tough job for policymakers to make the right choice, and to some extent, it will be easy for the poorly-a...

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