Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences (RAMSS) (E-Journal)
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Effect of BISP’S Unconditional Cash Transfer Program on Women Empowerment in Gilgit Baltistan
Get PDFBenazir Income Support Program (BISP) is a targeted unconditional cash transfer program initiated to provide financial support to poor and vulnerable women for smoothing and cushioning the negative effects of slow economic growth. The present study aims to find out the effect of unconditional cash transfer BISP on women’s empowerment. We analyze women’s empowerment through exploring the effect of unconditional cash transfer on household decision making, their independence, status of women in the community and their freedom from domestic violence. We interviewed 20 beneficiaries among which 10 respondents belonged to district Gilgit whereas the remaining 10 were the residents of district Nagar the data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Purposive sampling was used for data collection and respondents were traced through snowball sampling technique. The findings aver that BISP has improved the household decision making of women, increased women independence at limited level and decreased domestic violence, however, minimal effect was observed on women’s status in society
Role of Tax-Knowledge in Building Tax-Intention: An application on TAM Model
Get PDFThis study explores the role of Tax-knowledge on building affirmative attitude towards taxes, by incorporating the Technology acceptance model (TAM). TAM model established the fact that intention can be developed if attitude is foster by developing perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use in user mind, also it indicates the role if external factor in developing perceived ese of use and perceived usefulness. This article based on the fact narrated above uses Tax-knowledge as an external factor. Tax-knowledge is being observed by further 3 dimensions. General Knowledge, Legal Knowledge and Technical Knowledge. The data for this research article was collected from the owners of small business firms operational in Punjab, Multan region. Data was collected using questionnaire/survey method and was analysed using PLS-Smart. The results showed that general knowledge does not have impact on tax-compliance intention. Whereas, legal knowledge and technical knowledge demonstrate higher B-coefficients for both direct and indirect relationship. Thus, this study concludes that by enhancing legal and technical knowledge regarding taxes, individual’s tax-compliance intention can be magnified
ICT Based Research Activities: Ethical Awareness & Applications by the Contemporary Researchers
Get PDFResearch ethics are quite familiar and are followed by the researchers in all research institutes all over the world. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are the major source of collecting, saving, analyzing and disseminating the results of these researches in all over world as well. Therefore, the major question is that whether ICT-Ethics/IT Ethics are also being followed by these researchers during their research work or not? To answer this question, a self-developed questionnaire was administered amongst the contemporary researchers of one of the main public sector University of Southern Punjab. Four factors related to ICT ethics were mainly asked in this questionnaire: Basic Understanding with ICT ethics; Grabbing Data Online; Copyright Acts and Plagiarism. Total 200 (97 male and 103 female) researchers of session 2016-18 participated in this research on the basis of their willingness. With the help of graphs, frequencies, average scores and percentages it was concluded that overall all sampled researchers’ knowledge falls under the category of ‘Average to Above Average’ in all factors of ICT based research ethics which were specifically observed in this study. By comparing results gender-wise; it was found that both categories fall under the category of ‘Below Average to Average’ knowledge; but values disclosed that female researchers’ knowledge was better than to male researchers
Class Struggle in “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy (A Marxist Analysis of the Novel)
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to give a glimpse of class conflict depicted in the novel of Arundhati Roy “The God of Small Things”. Arundhati Roy seems to show that Marx perception of life is not without faults, having this conception Marxists believe that the proletariat class is nothing to lose but their unity. In this perspective the predominant view is that proletariat class has no privileges in India and this is the basic purpose of the study to reveal that it creates a sense of insecurity in the minds of those who are less considered in that society and they are mostly behaved less than the level of human. This research highlights that in the conception of Marxism all the workers should be united and there should be equality in the society
Need Assessment of Guidance and Counselling Services at the Secondary Level in Southern Punjab, Pakistan
Get PDFThe main purpose of the present study is to observe need assessment for guidance and Counseling services and its existing status at secondary level in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Furthermore, it was important to identify the most common problems faced by the students at secondary level. The present study was delimited to different public and private sector secondary schools of districts including Multan, Khanewal and Lodhran from the province of Punjab. Target Population of the study was consisted of forty (40) secondary schools, out of which twenty (20) public and twenty (20) private sector secondary schools. Total three hundred and ten (310) students were taken as a sample by using simple random sampling technique by using table of random numbers. A Questionnaire was developed as research tool which was based upon five points (05) Likert-type scale to collect quantitative data. After data collection, data was coded to analyze by using SPSS software. The results of the present study showed that there was a need to introduce guidance and Counseling services at secondary school level to address the students’ dire needs. Moreover, orientation programs are needed to arrange for teachers to provide professional training about these services. It was also recommended that guidance and Counseling services are the best solution to resolve personal, psychological & educational problems, source of educational, professional & personality growth, development and motivation towards their studies
A Multimodal Analysis of Selected Placards from the ‘Aurat March’ 2018 of Pakistan
Get PDFThis study presents a multimodal analysis of selected placards from the ‘Aurat March’ 2018 of Pakistan. For the purpose of in-depth analysis, two placards depicting two educated women have been explored. The study is exploratory and uses Royce’s framework of intersemiotic complementarity for the analysis. The findings suggest that placards are definitely more than the pieces of material resources they are constructed of. They carry in themselves various linguistic and other semiotic meanings which create a strong message in the placards
English Vocabulary Teaching Techniques at Secondary Level Schools in the Punjab, Pakistan
Get PDFThe aim of the paper was to identify various English vocabulary teaching techniques employed by teachers in public sector. The data for that purpose was collected through classroom observations. A total of 20 classes in various public sector schools of Rahimyar District of the Punjab Pakistan were observed. The majority of the teachers were found employing various techniques to teach their students vocabulary of English Language. It was found that the teachers employed the techniques like visual aids, separate Word lists and rules related to the formation of words to teach students unfamiliar lexical items of English language. The pupils were further asked to memorize the word lists with their synonyms and L1 equivalents so that they may perform better in their academic exams
The Nexus Between Monetary Policy and Economic Growth in Pakistan: Empirical Evidence Based on Bound Test Approach
Get PDFThe objective of this research is to examine the monetary policy's impact on economic growth. Variables of study are Gross domestic product, Inflation, rate of interest, Exchange rate, Money supply, Investment, and Consumer Price Index and time series data is collected from. Gross domestic product is a dependent variable and all other variables are independent and have a great effect on the explanatory variable. In this study, the Augmented dicky fuller test is used to check out the stationarity of our selected variables and after that autoregressive distributed lag model co-integration technique is applied to estimate the parameters of the model. The result shows that inflation, interest rate, and consumer price index show a negative impact on gross domestic product. While other variables such as exchange rate, money supply, and investment show a positive impact on GDP. The study recommended that the desired level of output and employment can be attained by adopting sufficient strategies that reduce inflation in the economy
Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Consumption, Environmental Pollution, and Economic Growth: an empirical application on Pakistan
Get PDFThe study scrutinizes the impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions on the economic growth of Pakistan. This study employs an autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) that covers the data range from 1990 to 2017. The results showed that renewable energy consumption and CO2 emission have positive while non-renewable energy consumption negatively influence the economic growth of Pakistan. Based on the findings, thereby Pakistan should take different steps to control over-dependence on non-renewable energy sources that affect economic growth adversely. Nevertheless, Pakistani government officials and private firms try to focus on innovative methods to finance recoverable energy projects
The Mediating Analysis of Complex Pathway between Discrete Negative Emotions, Proactive Behavior and Constructive Decision Making
Get PDFThe aim of the study was to develop and test an empirical model which describe when and how discrete negative emotions can spark proactivity and can be molded to produce positive decision making. Nexus to the problem statement, drawing the theory of emotions, and theory of planned behavior (TPB), a quantitate research study was designed based on onion model while data was collected from the 357 faculty members of eleven public sector universities of KP, Pakistan. The data was analyzed via SPSS 27 and SEM-PLS 3.3.3 in two stages of measurement modeling and structuring modeling techniques. The results of the present study provided a new insight that how two discrete negative emotions i.e. anger and fear can be molded to produce constructive decision making. The novelty of this study is the use of molding discrete negative emotions into positive outcomes by using the mechanism of sequential mediation. The study is relatively new as none of the study related to molding discrete negative emotion in positive outcomes is available in the context of Pakistan. The outcomes of the study can be applied in education sector, health sector any public and private sectors where the issue of negative emotions are at their peak. More work is required in this area to study emotion regulation knowledge and pro-social motivation to strengthen the phenomena of molding negative emotion into positive outcomes