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Women’s empowerment in Pakistan is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban/rural), educational status, social status, and age. Working women of Pakistan have always tried to improve the financial stability of their respective households but sadly …

Pakistan has the lowest rate of female entrepreneurship in the world, with merely 1% of female entrepreneurs compared to 21% of male entrepreneurs. Access to finance is one of the factors that has prevented women from engaging in entrepreneurial activities, …

A Food technology exhibition organized by Economics Department, JUW to encourage Women Entrepreneurship It has been three years being the part of Jinnah University for Women that I teach Marketing Economics to Food Science Technology students, with the support of …

In Pakistan, women entrepreneurship is presently considered a significant tool in enabling women empowerment and emancipation. It is said that the advantages of women entrepreneurship are many and varied. The number of women entrepreneurs across the globe is rising, which …

Islamic banking is one of the emerging fields in global financial market. It is growing at very fast pace all around the world. Islamic investment banks and Islamic venture capital funds are yet to be launched in Pakistan. Islamic banking …

Most business start-ups end badly. While the number of new businesses created in the UK in 2016 – 414,000 – looks impressive at first, it is less so when set against the number that failed that same year: 328,000. Failure …

As one of the few remaining societies with a state-led Communist economy, Cuba’s housing has taken a distinctive social and economic path since the 1959 revolution. However, in July, the National Assembly of Cuba approved a new draft constitution that …

With a population of around 200 million, Pakistan has the potential to become next major internet market in terms of number of connected people in the next few years. According to one estimate, 9 percent of the country’s population went …

Startups in Pakistan have created an air of buzz and excitement around them; reason being is that they are the new engines in the Pakistani economy and can take the country forward in making Pakistan ‘startup hub of Asia’. While …

Migrant remittances can play a critical role in the economic development of low/middle-income countries. Remittances to developing countries are generally seen as an instrument to reduce poverty and inequality, to provide social benefits and multiplier effects, and to act as …