
Mumtaz AnwarUniversity of the Punjab | PU · Department of Economics
Mumtaz Anwar
PhD
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Informal groundwater markets have spontaneously developed in Pakistan due to the heterogeneity of farmers’ resource endowments, irrigation water shortages, and productivity gains of groundwater. Evidence shows that water allocation through formal or informal water markets can result in significant benefits for buyers and sellers and improve sustain...
In 2015, Pakistan adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a national agenda to frame its development plans and socio-economic policies for the next 15 years in order to achieve SDGs. To comprehend this vision; significant resources are dedicated both at national and provincial levels. This paper assesses the financial requirements and g...
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has recently received increasing attention
from researchers and the business community. Due to globalization and changing consumption
patterns, agri-food industries have undergone a transformation, and the sustainability of agri-food
supply chains has also received greater attention. However, the issues of...
Pakistani farmers are using groundwater at an increasing rate to supplement their irrigation needs. This practice has led to overexploitation of groundwater in the country, resulting in many negative externalities and increased resource costs. In response to the growing water shortage, the informal groundwater markets in the arid and semi-arid regi...
This paper analyses the impact of foreign aid, socioeconomic and family planning programmes input on fertility in Pakistan. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is used to investigate the dynamics of the connected variables. For this purpose, the time series data from 1973 to 2011 has been used. The results show that foreign aid, prices and...
Aid recipient developing countries have remained stagnant and they are becoming more aid dependent after receiving large amount of aid from developed countries. This reality provokes vigorous debate on the effectiveness of aid. This study analyzes the effectiveness of aid in the education sector of Pakistan during the period 1973-2008.This study fo...
Most of the developing countries are becoming more aid dependent with the passage of time. This bleak reality provokes debate on aid effectiveness. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of aid on the health sector of Pakistan over the period 1973-2008. The study focuses on the health sector in the light of Millennium Development Goal; reducing chil...
The main objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of sector-specific foreign aid given to education sector and aggregate foreign aid on the national educational outcomes of Pakistan, respectively. --
Abstract: The foremost objective of this paper is to investigate the various determinants of self-employment in Pakistan, considering primary source of data at the district level. The sample of 494 workers residing in Bahawalpur district has been interviewed. We have employed Logistic Regression technique to estimate the determinants of self-employ...
This paper attempts to examine the factors affecting cotton production in Multan region using primary source of data. A sample of 60 small farmers, 25 medium and 15 large farmers was randomly selected from two Tehsils namely Multan and Shujabad of district Multan. The Cobb-Douglas Production Function is employed to assess the effects of various inp...
Deficits are a feature of any economy and more so of a developing economy due to the urge of investing for future growth. In case of Pakistan, it has been observed that in recent years inflation has crossed the threshold point and fiscal imbalances have been the most important factor in contributing towards inflation. This paper focuses on relation...
Issues relating to self employment in developed and developing countries alike have been attracting the attention of researchers recently. This paper examines several aspects of self and wage employment in Turkey. For this purpose, individual level data from the April and October rounds of the 1989 Household Labor Force Survey of the State Institut...
The embodied technical change should reduce the cost of production of the commodity. However, price structure, wages and interest rates also will change over time. Thus if a commodity is following a fixed price regime, the adjustment of a historical input-output table to current price wage level will leaves less and less profit per unit of output....
Corruption in the public sector erodes tax compliance and leads to higher tax evasion. Moreover, corrupt public officials abuse their public power to extort bribes from the private agents. In both types of interaction with the public sector, the private agents are bound to face uncertainty with respect to their disposable incomes. To analyse effect...
This paper analyzes the determinants of multilateral aid from international financial institutions (IFIs) to Pakistan, focusing on the world three major IFIs, the World Bank, the IMF and the ADB. Political economic factors, notably bureaucratic interests and major shareholders economic interests, are suspected to be relevant in international aid al...
Variations of bilateral aid flows are difficult to explain on the basis of official development objectives or recipient need. Based on the example of US aid to Pakistan, this paper suggests alternative political economic explanations, notably the relevance of ethnic lobbying and the relevance of US business interests. Time series regressions for th...