ABSTRACT: Stock markets are considered one of the key sources for the growth of economy. These financial markets are the strength of an economy. Terrorism and political instability negatively affect the stock market returns. Stock markets are considered one of the key sources for the growth of economy and for …
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Does education eliminate the rural poverty in Pakistan?
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, education has become protuberant issue as it involves most people to take part in this matter. Moreover, it cannot be separated from the life of human. Everyone needs to be educated including both males and females. In the development of every nation, education plays an important role. The …
Read More »An overview of the significant events in 2011 and their impact on the U.S-Pakistan relations during the Global War on Terror (GWoT)
ABSTRACT: The United States’ Global War on Terror had brought the highest peak in the U.S-Pakistan relations which were once frozen in the 90s. For the next ten years, both countries enjoyed cordial relationships, however, the year of 2011 had brought a new low in their relations. Therefore, this study …
Read More »The current prevalence of child sexual abuse worldwide: A Systematic review and meta-analysis
ABSTRACT: Child abuse is a matter of serious concern in the whole world. For identification of CSA (Child Sexual Abuse), it is necessary to do analysis on continuous base across the worldwide to see the increase or decrease trends. The aim of the study is to clarify the current occurrence …
Read More »Psychological and sociological factors in using code switching by teachers in classrooms
ABSTRACT: This study aims to explore the teachers’ attitude towards code switching in terms of different psychological and sociological aspects. As a matter of fact, different social and linguistic backgrounds in bilingual classrooms shape code-switching. The current study is quantitative and uses closed ended questionnaire for the collection of data …
Read More »Expression of the “Unconscious” under the mask of Charlie – the Tramp: A psychoanalytic approach to Dream sequences of select films of Charlie Chaplin
ABSTRACT: Charlie Chaplin, an iconic comedian of the silent film and one of the famous stars of the twentieth-century silent film era, has extensively employed “dream sequences” in his slapstick comedies. It is a well-known fact that his formative years were miserable, filled with hardships and deprivations (devoid of even …
Read More »The prospects threats of substance use and role of social and economic factors among youth: The case of higher education institutions
ABSTRACT: The present study aims to assemble data about social and economic issues that provide for constituent use among youth in higher education institutions of Punjab (Pakistan). This research tries to find the social risk factors of respondents that contributing to substance use, to accumulate data about social risk factors …
Read More »The impact of school heads’ demographic characteristics on their leadership styles
ABSTRACT: The concept of leadership is as old as the emergence of the universe. The leadership role of school heads is to promote the vision of intellectual understanding by motivating the employees for the progress and benefit of the organization. The current study aims at exploring the impact of school heads’ …
Read More »The determinants of working capital management in Pakistan: The case of manufacturing sector
ABSTRACT: This study aims at exploring the determinants of working capital management in manufacturing sector listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). It has considered all the components of working capital management i.e, cash conversion cycle, average collection period, average payment period and inventory turnover in days. The analysis has been …
Read More »An exploration of teachers’ code switching: The case of English language classroom
ABSTRACT: The linguistic phenomenon of using two languages by switching between them is universal in multilingual situation. Code-switching takes place when two bilingual speakers are busy in interacting with each other. Most commonly, such individuals are not consciously aware of the fact that they are involved in such linguistic phenomenon. …
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