The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of foreign aid on the educational outcomes of primary level in presence of corruption. Besides, the study also strives to throw a discussion on the situation of education in Sindh and the role of corruption in education. The study uses time series data over the span of 1995-2012. It is concluded on basis of the empirical results that the ODA disbursed to Pakistan has positive (insignificant) effect on the Gross Enrollment Rate of primary education. However, it has negative impact on the enrollment rates when corruption is interacted. Moreover, the condition of education in Sindh is vulnerable. The study also finds various forms of corruption in education at political, administrative and school levels which are both monetary as well as nonmonetary in nature.

The paper estimates the major factors affecting economic growth in Pakistan over the period of (1985-2011).The Time series properties of variables are tested using backward stepwise regression method by employing SPSS. The secondary World Bank data has been used for analysis purpose. The results of multiple regression indicate that one-dollar increase in the amount of service value added, agriculture value added, industrial value added, gross domestic savings and external debt causes GDP to increase by 1.124, 0.897, 0.702, 0.411 and 0.213 million US dollars respectively that accelerate the growth process. However, one-dollar rise in the amount of exports, FDI and gross fixed capital formation rise the GDP by 0.004, 0.003 and 0.001 million US $ that indicates the positive but insignificant association with GDP. The paper thus focuses on reforms and policies with immediately effect to boost FDI, exports and gross fixed capital formation to remove the barriers of economic growth in Pakistan.

Pakistan is witnessing rural to urban migration because urban areas are comparatively advanced and are equipped with superior infrastructure than rural areas. This study has been designed mainly to compare the Purchasing Behavior between rural migrants of Sukkur and Khairpur districts. Primary data was collected using survey method from 383 rural migrants and data was analyzed by using Factor Analysis and Independent Samples Test. Factor Analysis results indicate that rural migrants of Sukkur and Khairpur districts while purchasing regard Brand Switchover Behavior (BSB), Purchasing Consciousness (PC), Enjoy Purchasing (EP), Income/ Pocket Money (INC/PM) and Price Consciousness/ Quality Consciousness (PRC/QC). Further results if Independent Samples Test suggested that all factors affecting Purchasing Behavior of r migrants in Sukkur district are significantly different than in Khairpur district. This study is helpful for companies and organizations as they can area difference in Purchasing Behavior of rural migrants and they can increase number of customers.

The main motive of current study was to investigate the relationship between workplace bullying and job satisfaction in faculty members of public sector universities of Sindh (i.e., Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur and Sukkur institute of business administration). The cross-sectional design, a close ended Survey was conducted among 209 faculty members of both institutions. The finding of this study point out that the bullying dimensions i.e., work related bullying and person related bullying were significantly, negatively related to job satisfaction. Further, the results of the universities i.e., Sukkur institute of business Administration and Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Sindh, were also compared. The employees of Sukkur institute of business administration perceived work related bullying more as compared to Shah Abdul Latif University while employees of Shah Abdul Latif University perceived person related bullying more as compared to Sukkur institute of business administration. The implications of the study are discussed.

Currency design is an important feature of currency which if not changed timely, creates problem of counterfeiting. Our study of 191 students of Master and Graduation from SZABIST Larkana Campus shows that opinions of public are directly related with the change of currency design. Findings provided weak support of results in which main hypothesis along with two sub hypothesis were supported at significant level while the one hypothesis of relationship between public opinion and currency design rejected because of insignificant results above than P value of 0.05. The State Bank can change currency easily to combat counterfeiting of currency because public have no objection on its change. The state bank can take strategies by keeping in view the public acceptance which is positively correlated with changes in currency design. The currency design change comprises of change in size, color, and pictures on front and back side of currency. Except pictures any single or all components if changed then public will accept currency.

The Pakistani people possess a God-gifted ability to be entrepreneurial nation. In the national economy, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constitute nearly 90% of all private firms; they are a source of employment for nearly 80% non-agricultural labor force; and contribute a share of 40% annually in GDP of the country. Therefore, this research is basically carried out to investigate entrepreneurial environment in Pakistan through GEM data. This study has used two sources of data and they are: the Adult Population Surveys (APS) and 09 indicators of National Experts Survey (NES). Experts have generally rated entrepreneurial environment of Pakistan as a mediocre. The biggest constraint for entrepreneurs in Pakistan is access to finance, while the biggest contributing factor is Cultural and Social Norms and view of 51.50% experts is that access to finance is the most important recommendation given by the experts. In Pakistan men hold more positive attitude then females towards starting own business. The Male TEA rate is 21.27 while female rate is just 1.21. In order to promote an entrepreneurial environment in Pakistan, the government has to play an instrumental role.

This study investigates the impact of performance based remuneration plan on operational risk management in Pakistan’s banking sector. The purpose related to the research is to highlight the importance of operational risk management. Literature review reveals that operational risk management has a great role in banking sector, in recent time implementation of Basel II & III the risk management especially operational risk has received reasonable attention in the banking sector. The data was collected from targeted population commercial banks of Pakistan with sample size of 250 individuals. To accomplish the task most important information was gathered through Likert-type scale questionnaire and unsystematic models method were utilized. To analyze the facts arithmetical instrument Multiple Linear Regressions was utilized and shows significance results. This study is limited to some bank branches of Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore and Islamabad cities which were easy to access for researchers because of restricted monetary assets, scarcity of time and vast geographical location. This research discloses that responsibility of Operational Risk Management is shocking and serious circumstances in banking sector of Pakistan.

In this paper, we reviewed empirical exchange market pressure indices. The objective was to find out similarities and differences among them in terms of their components and weights assigned to them. The review shows that apart from Girton and Roper (1977) rest of three pressure indices are model dependent. However, they require estimation of different number of parameters for assigning weight to their components. Roper and Turnovsky (1980) require estimation of six parameters. Weymark (1995) and Pentecost et al. (2001) on the other hand requires estimation of two and one parameter for assigning weight to foreign exchange reserve and relative interest rate differential component of market pressure index

Issue of per capita income is debatable in different forums world-wide and a sign of showing the economic stability, in this regard research was carried out to predict the per capita income with different economic measures like wise: (Total Public Debt, Fiscal Deficit, Tax Revenue, and Defense Expenditure) as a percentage of GDP and Real GDP growth, data were collected from State Bank of Pakistan and Ministry of Finance Government of Pakistan, used SPSS-18 for entering the data and analysis through correlation and regression, hence forth concluded that public debt must be utilized properly in productive activities, policies must be formed in support of real GDP which are the major predictors of per capita income, defense expenditure must be looked out in a way so that proper allocation of funds towards productive activities can be made to strengthen the per capita income.