Pakistan, Growth, Dependency, and Crisis

Inter-Dependency and Causality in Consumption, Income and Economic Growth in Pakistan (1960-2005)

The objectives of this paper are to critically evaluate causality, vulnerability to innovation of consumption, income and economic growth. In methodological terms the paper uses annual data for the period 1960-2005, taken from Economic Survey of Pakistan (various issues) and International Financial Statistics (2005). Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model with impulse response function (IRF), error ...

Floods in Pakistan: a public health crisis.

AIDS Crisis and Growth

We investigate an OLG economy where an AIDS epidemic influences human capital accumulation and growth through the creation of large numbers of orphans. We study how intrafamily allocations regarding school and work time of children are adjusted in the face of AIDS within a family, and how, in turn, these adjustments influence accumulation of physical and human capital. We compute the aggregate ...

Securing Crisis Maps in Libya, Sudan, and Pakistan

Crisis maps are used to collect and present open source intelligence (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, news reports) and direct messages (SMS, email) during disasters such as the Haiti earthquake and ongoing civil unrest in Africa. While the deployment of crisis mapping technology is on its way to becoming a standard tool to collect and track ground truth from crisis zones, very little work has been...

Smart Nano Grid Asoloution to Pakistan Energy Crisis Abdul

This paper presents an overview of the architecture for smart Nano grids, Integration of various diversified distributed generation technologies in Nano grids at small community level and different policies governing its implementation. The paper also reviews the current energy scenario of Pakistan with emphasis on the need of setting up small scale Nano grids with integration of V2G technology...