Working Papers

The traditional approaches to the integration of low-income countries have been the assembly of intermediate goods, which are generally produced in high-income countries, for re-export to the final consumers. This strategy should be re-evaluated, especially for a low-income country such as Pakistan, to integrate more value-added activities and services. …….View more at Springer

In developing counties transport development is closely linked to economic progress, however in case of Pakistan the development of transport projects increase burden to the national and provincial budget in terms of development expenditures but also in shape of subsidies provided to these projects for the operation and maintenance. …….View more

The main purpose of the study is to explore post BRT scenario from the motorist perspective to address their concerns. The intent is to guide future decision making in attracting this larger group of road users toward BRT as otherwise the project of BRT would fail to yield its potential benefits of congestion mitigation, reducing intra city journey time delays and betterment of overall environment of the city.500 motorist of the city were interviewed through a structured questionnaire. …….View more

The urbanization process of rural population is an increasing phenomenon all over the world. It is estimated that the major world population growth between 2000 and 2030 will be concentrated in urban areas and that too in developing countries (United Nations, 2005). Among developing countries, Pakistan exhibits one of the highest rates of urbanization……..View more

Keeping in view the global debate on megaprojects sustainability, the focus of the current study was to propose and test a parsimonious research model by incorporating the structural interrelationships of sustainable development issues of Pakistan with economic, social and environmental dimensions of mega projects of CPEC as a means to sustainable development in Pakistan…….View more

The paper look into the effect of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on the local urban and socio-economic set up in Pakistan with special reference to spatial planning of urban areas and Special Economic Zones (SEZs). For the analysis CA-Markov model and Fuzzy membership technique has been adopted on area selected on CPEC route and one special economic zone named Rashkai-SEZ situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa……View more

CPEC would change Pakistan’s socio-economic, environmental and geographic landscape, in addition to bringing economic growth and development through an enormous development of infrastructure, industrialization, huge employment opportunities, increased power generation and commercial amalgamation with the establishments of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)…..View more

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become the guiding framework for cooperation between China and Pakistan in terms of development. The project is envisioned to effectively promote the socio-economic development of Pakistan through regional connectivity and integration of development strategies of Pakistan and China to transform the economic landscape of Pakistan. Due to this initiative, an aspect of development under CPEC has been the progression towards urbanization…..View more

Pakistan has been an energy deficit country from last two decades, facing acute power shortage of around 6000 MW. This acute shortfall has negatively impacted economic growth and has curtailed GDP growth of the economy by 4% percent (Shahbaz, 2015). In China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a special focus has been given to the energy sector such as 19 projects out of 39 Earlier Harvest Projects (EHP) worth around US $34 billion, which is equivalent to 70% of the CPEC funding basket, is marked for energy projects. …..View more

Developmental projects are backbone of an economy. Therefore, developing countries around the world are in need of such projects that enhance their regional and international connectivity, create employment opportunities and consequently improve their living standards. … .View more

For economic prosperity, countries experiment with various approaches. Among these, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) – enclaves with specified laws and incentives within a country to achieve various economic objectives – is one such approach that has brought wonders especially for the emerging economies. … .View more

In macroeconomics literature foreign direct investment (FDI) is thought as a significant determinant of economic development, especially in the developing countries like Pakistan. … .View more

Slums mostly shadow beautiful cities – massive urbanization coupled with slumization is one of the biggest challenge for growing cities. Cites provide attraction for people but this may open-up in tragedy sometimes, trapping the dwellers in slums… .View more

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) provides the industrial sector of Pakistan with an opportunity to modernize and become more efficient and competitive. The various energy projects under CPEC – coupled with improvements in infrastructure and road networks – are helping to address some of the key constraints to growth in the country.. .View more

Investment under umbrella of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is subject to social and economic development of common people and the country at large. One of the key domains of the CPEC is road infrastructure. … View more

Identification of relevant trades/skills, in technical vocational education and trainings (TVET), for the need of prospective CPEC projects, both in short and long terms, are necessary for devising optimal human resource policies for job growth and economic development of all provinces of Pakistan. ..View more

The word revolution is entirely suitable for relating the changes in financial institutions and instruments that have occurred in the past twenty years. The key impulses to the successful financial innovations have come from taxes and regulations..View more

This study explores the employment generated in different sectors of the early harvest phase of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) namely; Energy, Infrastructure, Gwadar and Industrial Cooperation.. View more

1. CPEC should be considered in the large context of (a) the Chinese development model that has brought about an economic miracle, (b) the Belt and Road Initiative, and (c) China’s stellar comparative advantage in infrastructure construction…. View more

China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a revolutionary project having remarkable implications for the economy and considered as fate changer of this region. The mega project of CPEC creates regional connectivity among Central and South Asian countries under the one belt one road (OBOR) initiative… View more

One of the OBOR pilot corridors out of the six corridors is CPEC. The CPEC has been initiated in 2013 and due to its speedy progress, CPEC is now vastly considered as the “flagship” project among the OBOR projects… View more

SEZs are promoted around the globe mainly in less developed countries as a strategy to industrialize and to accelerate the economic growth. The growing number of zones are the evidence of this “second best”1 (Farole, 2010) and cornerstone (UNIDO, 2015) strategy for the country’s economic growth… View more

China remained one of the top economies of the world, with respect to trade volume it is the first largest exporting and the 2nd largest importing country. Manufacturing sector is the key trading sector (imports and exports) of China which accounts for 94% of its total exports and about 65% of its total imports… View more

The formation and advancement of special economic zones (SEZs) are considered as engines of economic growth, as they play their role of social-uplift through trade boost-up, widening export base, fast-track urbanization and other social privileges… View more

This concept note is the outcome of second workshop which was conducted in the centre of excellence, CPEC-SE Division from 18-23 December 2017 to strengthen the evidence base planning, intervention and CPEC impact assessment… View more

Special economic zones (SEZs) around the world are normally established with the aim of achieving various policy objectives: to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), to generate employment, and to experimental with economic reforms via zone-exclusive trade policies.[i] … View more

The role of infrastructure in economic development is of immense importance. Initial Infrastructure investment under China Pakistan Economic Corridor is US $ 13.58 billion out of US $ 46 billion. Our study has estimated the number of direct employment generated through CPEC and related infrastructure projects…View more

Pakistan economy is besieged on the export front for decades, which contributes to trade and current account deficits. Although the government has announced several industrialization policies in the past, but no significant change has been observed… View more

This paper sheds light on the methodology of “Business Information Modeling (BIM)”and the benef1ts associated with it. It further represents the case studies regarding the usefulness of BIM in countries namely: UAE, Singapore,Dubai and Spain… View more