192 research outputs found
Certificate in Project Preparation and Project Management
No full textCertificate in Project Preparation and Project Management : a customized program for KP Revenue Mobilization & Public Resource Management Program (KPRMP).
Front Row- Left to Right: Ashfaq Ahmed, Ikhlaq Ahmed, Rida Haroon, Yusra Shoukat, Mohsin Chandna, Sarah Rehman, Sana Imtiaz, Aamir Bashir, Muhammad Ayaz Khan, Said Ul Amin, Javed Khilji
Middle Row- Left to Right: Aftab Ahmad, Yar Muhammad, Muqtida Bin Syed Gillani, Atta ur Rehman, Muhammad Riaz, Naveed Alam, Naveed Khan, Syed Hammad Haider, Muhammad Shiraz
Last Row: Left to Right: Saba Hameed, Kehkashan Mazhar, Munawar Jamal, Abdul Rehman, Zahid Ahmed, Jaydeephttps://ir.iba.edu.pk/training-events-gallery/1004/thumbnail.jp
محمد حمید شاہد اور احمد جاوید کے افسانوں میں عہدِ جدید کی ثقافت کا تقابلی جائزہ
No full textFiction means a short, fictitious story or narrative in which an important aspect or event of life is presented. The identity of a nation or country is called its civilization or culture, which separates it from other nations. The main purpose of a nation's civilization is to define the boundaries of that nation. Various poets and writers have resorted to their works for the promotion of culture. Muhammad Hameed Shahid was born on 23 March 1957 in Pindi Gheb District Attock. His literary taste was nurtured by the home environment. He took up the pen in fiction writing along with criticism, novel writing and column writing. Ahmad Javed was born on April 22, 1948 in Campbell pur district of Attock. His affinity towards literary taste was due to his MA in Urdu and his affiliation with the teaching department. His words, his stories and his mood show pure literary seriousness.In the fictions of Muhammad Hameed Shahid and Ahmad Javed, all aspects of religious and social culture are described which characterize all aspects of rural and urban life. They have made a unique effort to highlight all aspects of culture through his fiction and highlighted the civilization of their society by including many cultural colors in their legends
A Sectoral Analysis of Poverty in Pakistan
No full textSince independence, the problem of mass poverty in Pakistan has been substantial. The number of the destitute has continued to soar. The problem of poverty now looks to be beyond control. The vast masses of the people, particularly in rural areas, are indeed, miserably below the poverty line. Moreover, the socioeconomic and demographic indicators are dismal. Official planning and the market economy system have failed to lessen poverty. The policies formulated to eradicate it have failed to achieve their objectives. The issue of poverty in Pakistan has its significance for sustainable development. Long run development is not possible without protecting the rights of the vulnerable groups and the participation of the entire population in the development process. Although Pakistan’s economic growth has been quite respectable for much of the last four decades but it has failed to trickle down to the masses. The country has experienced poverty and stagnation in 1950s, increasing poverty and growth in the 1960s, stagnation of growth but declining poverty in the 1970s, increasing growth and declining poverty in the 1980s and finally, increasing poverty and falling growth in the 1990s [MHCHD/UNDP (1999)]. The mainstream approach to identifying the poor specifies a cut-off point ‘poverty line’, defining the level of income/expenditure below which people are diagnosed as poor. The conventional measure of poverty, head-count index, has been widely used in Pakistan. However, in practice this absolute threshold usually cannot stand the pressures of changing circumstances and is not as absolute as the term would appear to imply [Zaidi and de Vos (1993)]. To show the true face of poverty this study uses Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) class of additively decomposable measure to estimate the variation in the incidence, intensity and severity of poverty across sectors of employment. This study also determines the relative contribution of the various sectors to aggregate poverty. Location index is also used to measure the concentration of poor in each sector. To evaluate the sources of observed changes in sectoral poverty at the micro level ‘HIES’ data sets are used.
Remittances and Poverty Linkages in Pakistan: Evidence and Some Suggestions for Further Analysis
No full textGlobal remittances experienced a dramatic increase over the years, particularly since 1990 wherein the developing world emerged to be the major beneficiary accounting for 60 percent of the total amount. Because of the sheer volume, and magnitude of the remittances, and pre-eminence of these flows compared to the FDIs, development assistance and in some cases the trade related transactions, the development practitioners tended to focus and investigate the importance of remittances which are generally regarded as a dependable source for growth, improved welfare and poverty alleviation in the developing world. Given the fact that remittances flows entail wide ranging ramifications both for sending as well as receiving countries, difficult to be generalised, hence empirical evidence has been mounted though lack of consensus is visible.
Contribution of Services Sector in the Economy of Pakistan
No full textThe services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study identifies the bottlenecks in its growth and suggest measures to remove them. A set of policy reforms has been suggested to make the sector more effective in the growth of the national economy.Services Sector, Industry, Employment, Financial Institutions and Pakistan’s Economy
Poverty Dynamics of Female-headed Households in Pakistan: Evidence from PIHS 2000-01 and PSLM 2004-05
No full textThe paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of female -headed households (FHHs) from two household surveys in Pakistan. Although, the database is constrained by quality factors and small sample size, the following findings add to the richness of current research in this area: (a) The numerical incidence of poverty among households headed by females is less than that for all households in the country, at the national, urban and rural level for both the years. This can be traced to the finding that more than 70 percent of households headed by females receive remittances, (b) The incidence of poverty among FHHs during the period 2000-01 to 2004-05 did not decline as fast as it did for mixed households, nationwide. In urban areas, it did not decline at all, (c) Among the determinants of poverty of FHHs, illiteracy, dependency and rural residence exacerbate poverty, while remittances domestic and/ or foreign reduce poverty, (d) The dynamics of incidence of poverty among FHHs during the period indicated that Illiteracy as the factor exacerbating poverty became less important in 2004-05. Moreover, residence in rural areas was also a weaker factor in determining the incidence of poverty. By far the most notable contribution in reducing the incidence of poverty was self-employment in agriculture in 2004-05.
Late Carboniferous-Early Permian structural development of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High and adjacent Norwegian-Danish Basin
No full textA grid of 2D regional seismic lines from six different surveys together with Bouguer gravity anomaly data and borehole data sets have been used to get an insight of the structural development of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High and the nearby Norwegian-Danish Basin.
The Ringkøbing-Fyn High consists of relatively shallow basement rocks as compared to the Norwegian-Danish Basin which is cut by the approximately north-south trending Horn Graben. The western fraction of the high is bounded by the Central Graben in the West and the Horn Graben in the East which is characterized by ESE-WNW to E-W to ENE-WSW to NE-SE trending extensional faults, displaying half-graben structural settings. Mainly normal faults belong to an early Permian rifting event based on the stratigraphic dating method. However, extensional faults related to a rifting phase older than Permian extension is limited to southwestern part of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High. The normal faults over the Ringkøbing-Fyn High and the adjoining Norwegian-Danish Basin can be classified as planar to slightly curved to listric in geometry. Mostly extensional faults are restricted below the top Rotliegend Group with minor reactivation in the Triassic and the mid-late Cretaceous. The Triassic reactivation is concentrated in the proximity of the Horn Graben.
The thickness of the Palaeozoic sedimentary succession over the Ringkøbing-Fyn High is much greater in the northern half-grabens where it reaches up to 1500 (ms) twt while towards the southern half-grabens it reduces to 450 ms (twt). This varied thickness is accredited to differential uplift of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High. During uplift, maximum erosion of the Palaeozoic strata took place in the central part of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High displaying a dome shape while the northern side experienced relatively less erosion. Several regional unconformities have also been interpreted in the study area which include Rotliegend, Saalian, Base Jurassic and Base Cretaceous unconformities.
Seismic interpretation shows that early Permian rifting and uplift of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High might have been contemporaneous in the study area. This positive structure remained relatively uplifted until early late-Triassic while the Norwegian-Danish Basin experienced subsidence after rifting which is inferred from the thick late Permian and Triassic succession. A thin late Triassic succession is found to be present at places over the Ringkøbing-Fyn High showing the start of deposition over the structure. The uplift of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High is attributed to the Skagerrak Centered Large Igneous Province (SCLIP) due to its best chronological relevance with stratigraphic dating of the faults. Later in late Cretaceous, less thickness of the Chalk Group over the Ringkøbing-Fyn High demonstrates that the structure has tolerated slight uplift during this time interval due to unknown reason. The study also constrains the northern extent of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High based on the Zechstein salt termination line and extensional faults on the northern flank of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High
Factors Determining Public Demand for Safe Drinking Water (A Case Study of District Peshawar)
No full textOvertime per capita water availability in the world as well as in Pakistan has been declining. Water sources have depleted and become polluted therefore, now water has become a scarce good. Resultantly, the inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene are rooting major environmental degradation and health damages in the country. This study was undertaken to analyze the magnitude of awareness, perception, practices, and demand for safe drinking water. The study further elaborated HHs Willingness to Pay (WTP) for improved water quality and services in district Peshawar of NWFP, Pakistan. Primary data was collected from 315 HHs which consist 2455 HH members from district Peshawar. Schooling, exposure to mass media, HH income and occurrence of diarrhoeal diseases were used to measure the HHs’ response towards the health risks associated with contaminated water. Moreover, to find out public acceptability to government and private sector as service providers, HH’s were asked two separate questions regarding their maximum willingness to pay for an improved water system by either one. Out of the sample HHs, 78.4 percent were willing to accept improved water system provided by government while relatively less HHs (55.6 percent) were WTP in the case of private company as the service provider. It is worth mentioning that according to sample about 76 percent HHs were not using any method for water purification at their homes in district Peshawar. This study empirically proved that the role of awareness besides the income constraint is the key determinants of demand for safe drinking water.
Factors Determining Public Demand for Safe Drinking Water (A Case Study of District Peshawar)
No full textOvertime per capita water availability in the world as well as in Pakistan has been declining. Water sources have depleted and become polluted therefore, now water has become a scarce good. Resultantly, the inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene are rooting major environmental degradation and health damages in the country. This study was undertaken to analyze the magnitude of awareness, perception, practices, and demand for safe drinking water. The study further elaborated HHs Willingness to Pay (WTP) for improved water quality and services in district Peshawar of NWFP, Pakistan. Primary data was collected from 315 HHs which consist 2455 HH members from district Peshawar. Schooling, exposure to mass media, HH income and occurrence of diarrhoeal diseases were used to measure the HHs response towards the health risks associated with contaminated water. Moreover, to find out public acceptability to government and private sector as service providers, HHs were asked two separate questions regarding their maximum willingness to pay for an improved water system by either one. Out of the sample HHs, 78.4 percent were willing to accept improved water system provided by government while relatively less HHs (55.6 percent) were WTP in the case of private company as the service provider. It is worth mentioning that according to sample about 76 percent HHs were not using any method for water purification at their homes in district Peshawar. This study empirically proved that the role of awareness besides the income constraint is the key determinants of demand for safe drinking water.water supply, environmental degradation, willingness to pay, water demand
Training Need Assessment for Teachers Working in an Inclusive Setting for Children with Disabilities
No full textIn an inclusive setup, general education teachers are expected to handle students with different needs. These teachers should always be supported to meet these problems. The purpose of the present research study addresses the importance of teachers' training attitudes towards inclusive education of children with disabilities. Training enhances teachers ‘self- efficiency’ and information regarding adapting their teaching methodologies in an inclusive environment for the individual needs of exceptional children. Literature review studies the areas such as perception about disability, the notion of inclusive education, movement from special education to inclusive setup and teachers training provided to use teaching skills. An inclusive set up is advantageous for learners with disabilities. A total of 280 respondents, male 79 and female 201 from 15 schools and centers of special education, District Multan were selected as a population in the study. A sample of 125 participants selected through stratified random sampling techniques. In this research, a questionnaire was the only instrument for the collection of data. After planning the questionnaire, the researchers administered it to 5 members for pilot testing. The results were analyzed and finally, the questionnaire contained 30 items covering all the components of training need assessment for teachers working in an inclusive setting for children with disabilities. The descriptive and qualitative research method was applied to analyze the collected data. It was highly recommended that teachers' training programs are designed to share information about awareness of disability and enhance teaching skills and knowledge for an efficacious inclusive system for children with disabilities
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