FDI and Wage Nexus: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan
Foreign capital inflows resulted in overall economic growth in many countries, but there are many concerns about its distributive effects,especially on fluctuating wages, which are still being investigated. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on domestic industry wages using micro-level data from Pakistan from 1996-97 to 2007-08. Foreign firms are expected to pay higher wages than that domestic firms in order to attract more labor; thus, if foreign and domestic firms compete in the same labor market, domestic firms would pay higher wages to recruit jobs, resulting in rising average domestic industry wages. The empirical analysis also shows that in Pakistan, FDI inflows raise industry wage premiums.The findings of the study are robust by the inclusion of various globalization and sector-related variables. To reap higher wages, Pakistan's government should promote FDI at the industry level.
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Foreign Direct Investment; Wage Premium; Manufacturing Sector; Pakistan
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(1) Qamer un-Nisa
Ph.D. Scholar, Institute of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Jabbar Ul-Haq
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Nazia Nazeer
Assistant Professor, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Built Heritage of Mansehra Through the Ages and Prospects of Tourism
The district of Mansehra, which is located on the historic Silk Road,has a long history of traditions. Several dynasties governed this region in the past, leaving their footprints in the form of heritage remnants. Hindus, Muslims,Sikhs, and British are the most noticeable among them. The current paper examines a few of these monuments and makes recommendations for how they may be used as tourist attractions. The current state of most structures is deplorable, and comprehensive conservation and tourist management strategy are urgently needed to optimize the benefits of cultural legacy.
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Mansehra, Heritage, Tourism, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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(1) Adnan Anwar
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Junaid Bashir
Assistant Professor, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Foundation University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Anas Mahmud Arif
Assistant Professor, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
Human Capital and Foreign Remittances in Pakistan
This study analyzes the effects of foreign remittance on human capital by using the pooled data collected from HIES data sets, from 1998/99 to 2018/19. Two proxies (e.g., 1- mean years-of-schooling with age equal to 15 years and above, 2- mean years-of-schooling with age equal to 25 and above) are used for human capital. The panel data techniques, like Fixed effect,Random effect model, GLS regression, and Panel corrected standard error regression, are used. The results show a significant positive relationship between human capital measured in terms of both proxies and foreign remittances in overall Pakistan, but human capital in terms of the first proxy has a statistically significant association with foreign remittances in an urban and rural area, in terms of the second proxy, significant in urban, but not in rural areas. Per-capita-income has statistically significant positive effects on human capital in terms of both proxies in rural areas but does not have a significant effect in urban areas. It is recommended that the Government should formulate policies that can maximize the inflow of foreign remittances in Pakistan.
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Human Capital, Education, Foreign Remittances, Per Capita Income, Pakistan
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(1) Muhammad Yasir Nadeem
Ph.D. Scholar, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Ahmed Raza Cheema
Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
Comparison and Analysis of Health Care Delivery System: Pakistan Versus Russia
Health Care Delivery System, also abbreviated as HCDS, is a system devised by the state for the proper delivery of health care for their populations.This is a service providing system in which society's health is determined and steps are taken to maintain it. The aim of this article is to compare the healthcare delivery system (HCDS) of Pakistan and Russia. This research article presents the basic concept behind the health care delivery systems of two countries to take notice of the importance of human beings and take steps to maintain and promote the healthy life of the people of the community.Findings show the efficacy of this HCDS varies with the resources, demands and needs of the individuals along with the availability of finances. All the participants of a community receive the healthcare services continuously including health promotion, prevention of diseases, diagnosis and disease management, followed by rehab with palliative care. All of these are delivered at different levels of the system, at different sites of care as per the requirement of the users.
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Delivery System, Health Care, Pakistan, Russia
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(1) Shaheen Nazakat
College of Nursing, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Sajid
Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Informal Bases of Formalisation in Pakistan: Recording the Lived Experiences of Female School Teachers
This paper focuses on exploring the way ingrained cultural wisdom and mechanisms provide the base for actualising official roles in formal organisations. Most of the formal interactions and transactions aremade through personalised dealings (Qadeer, 1999). Some senior scholars feel that suchculturalwisdom/mechanisms(likeVB)arenotrelevantanymore (Chaudhary, 1999), but the current research and existing practices are giving a different picture of reality (Saher & Mayrhofer, 2014; Saher et al., 2014;
Qadeer, 1999). Considering this lacuna in literature and between literature and practice, this paper is going to unravel the process of informalization in formal organisations and will contribute to the ongoing debate on convergence divergence. This paper will also discuss the implications and extend guidance for future research in this field.
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Convergence-divergence, Female Teachers, School, Vartan Bhanji, Indigenous Wisdom, Pakistan
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(1) Noreen Saher
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(2) Hadiba Kanwal
Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, GIFT University, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan
(3) Nimra Nimra
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Risk Managing Technique in Pakistan Industry: A Case from Pakistan
This study examines the risk management solutions used in the banking sector to meet the many risks. Thereport also evaluates how conventional and Islamic banks in Pakistan manage risk. This study used primary sources. First, senior managers, risk managers, and chief risk officers from Islamic and normal banks fill out a questionnaire. 51 financial institutions responded. Data analysis uses descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, t-tests, an ANOVA, and the LSD test. Regular banks' operational risk management strategies and stress test results differ from Islamic banks statistically. The study found no statistically significant difference between Islamic and conventional banks in how well they used risk management tools and systems, how much
market risk VaR they used, how much credit risk exposure they had, how they reduced that risk, and how they analyzed their credit risk portfolios.
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Islamic Banks, Conventional Banks, Risks, Risk Management, Pakistan
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(1) Muhammad Mahmood Shah Khan
Assistant Professor, Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Sheikh Khurram Abid
Lahore Business School, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Rubeena Tashfeen
Associate Professor, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Challenges & Suggestions of Online Teaching: Opinions of Public and Private Universities in Pakistan
Online learning has transformed higher education. Many empirical studies have been done on the challenges with online courses, but few have presented an overview. We reviewed the literature using Cooper's framework. Concerns were found to be common in three large groups: online students, teachers, and people who make materials. Online education had problems because students had different ideas about what was expected of them, their level of preparedness, and their level of engagement. Teachers had to deal with problems like getting used to their new roles in the classroom and having trouble with time managementandhowtoteach.Considerationsforcontent development, the role of instructors in content creation, the use of multimedia in content, the importance of instructional methods, and more came up during this research. Higher education institutions can help both teachers and students get past these problems by giving them opportunities.
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Online Teaching, Public and Private Universities, Pakistan, Education, Students, Teachers, Online Education
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(1) Farah Latif Naz
Lecturer, Department of Education, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Abdul Wahab
Lecturer, Institute of Education and Research , University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
(3) Abdul Raheem
Department of Disaster Management and Development Studies, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Stress of Undergraduate Students
The present study was an attempt to understand how emotions are related to academic stress. Emotions are an integral part of a human’s life. The nature of this study was correlational. Students from Education department at theundergraduate university level were selected asapopulation from both public and private sector universities in Lahore, Pakistan. Questionaries were used to collect data. To explore therelationshipbetween emotional intelligence and academic stress multiple regression analysis was applied. For comparison between two groups like gender independent sample t-test was used and for comparison between more than two groups like different age groups, one-way ANOVA was applied. The results revealed that students with higher EI suffer less academic stress than others as they are more cognizant of their emotions.
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Emotional Intelligence (EI), Academic Stress (AS), Students, Lahore, Pakistan
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(1) Mahvish Fatima Kashif
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Feza Mehddi
PhD Scholar, STEM Education Department, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Collaboration Trend and its Impact on the Research Productivity in Computer Science Research
Apart from a few bibliometric studies of limited scope, thePakistani scientific system is a scantly researched area requiring large-scale empirical evidence-basedstudies.Thisstudyaimstoexplorevariousfeaturesof collaboration in research and its impact on the performance of computer scientists in Pakistan.Over 15,494 SCOPUS-indexed publications in the area of computer science for the period 1997 to 2017, having at least one Pakistani author, were analyzed. The findings of the study disclosed the important role ofcollaborationinthecitationcountofthepublications.International collaborative works and the more countries in collaboration significantly impactedthenumberofcitations.Thestudy'sfindingsrevealedthat collaborative publications are more frequently cited and considered of high quality. This study is the first large-scale quantitative analysis of research collaboration, represented by co-authorship in computer science research in Pakistan.
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Research Collaboration, Computer Science, Citation Analysis, Scientometric Analysis, Research Performance, Pakistan.
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(1) Muhammad Asif
Manager, Information Technology University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Khalid Mahmood
Professor, Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Alia Arshad
Assistant Professor, Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
A Tale of Two Languages in Blogging: Code-Switching Analysis in Pakistani Blogosphere
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) have brought about a new medium for information sharing and communication and weblogs are becoming more and more popular in the virtual sphere. The process of code- switching can be traced in this fast evolving medium of communication. This paper aims at investigating the existence of code-switching patterns by examining the categories and frequency of Urdu code-switches in Pakistani English weblogs authored by Pakistani bloggers.The quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in this study. The blog entries of 10 Pakistani bloggers were analyzed by using the descriptive research paradigm. The findings illustrated that the linguistic choices of Pakistani bloggers as bilingual internet users are living in between two worlds, two cultures, and two languages which they employ in this mode of communication to fully express themselves. The findings showed the linguistic features that are particular to the context of CMC. The study concluded that the presence of code-switching in CMC have to be considered and treated as a unique and different entity fromspokenformorwrittenformofcode-switchingtocaptureits fundamental attributes.
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Bilinguals, Code-Switching, Computer-Mediated Communication, Pakistani English Weblogs, Pakistani Bloggers, Weblog
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(1) Kanwal Fatima
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Assistant Editor (English), ORIC, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Samina Amin Qadir
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
