SAJMS - South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

Autocorrelation in economic indicators before and after Natural Disaster

Research Article

This study investigates the autocorrelation in economic indicators of Pakistan before and after Natural disaster in the light of variables, which includes GDP (deflator), Inflation (CPI), Money supply (M2), Remittances and Net export (X-M). This study considers the data for the period of 1989-2009. In this study, data has been divided into two sets; first having a data for the [...]

Level of Satisfaction of Working and Non-Working Women in Relation to their Socio-economic Conditions and Education

Research Article

The study aims at examining the satisfaction level of women with their socioeconomic conditions and education, based on survey data relating to 262 married females. It is suggested that education enables women to earn, resulting a higher level of satisfaction. Another important predictor in the study is social class of women, which plays an important role in their satisfaction level. [...]

A Comparative Study on Bank’s Profitability before, during and after Crises

Research Article

The purpose of this research is to examine the outcome of liquidity crunch on bank profitability. Comparison of bank’s profitability has been done for a panel of 30 Pakistani banks over the period of 2003 to 2010. Focus has been kept on total bank profits and its components: Gross Profit, ROE and ROA. Three eras have been selected as [...]

Retail Business Owners Preference: Why not Formal Financing?

Research Article

Finance is a basic need to run a business and the need of external financing is also required during the business cycle, expansion, growth etc. In this research, Retail Business Owners (RBO’s) were being questioned to find out the reasons for their preference on informal financing rather on formal financing. Karachi was the sample population to investigate the rational [...]