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  Impact of Political Instability on Economic Development in Pakistan                                    1.Introduction Political Stability plays an important role in Economic Development of a country. An unstable political system could seriously hamper economic growth. The concept of political instability was described by Lipstel (1960). He stated, “a country is considered as stable if it has been a liberal and consistent democracy or dictatorship for 25 years”, but recent politico-economic school of thought has changed the tradition of political instability. The standard definition of political instability is the propensity of a government collapse either because of conflicts or rampant competition between various political parties   (Hussain, 2014) . Economic growth and political stability are ...

Neo-liberalism and Poverty Poverty has been vaguely defined in development literature as an undesirable state of living with no indepth analysis of its real nature. If you read any social policy journal, an article on social development or a treatise on political economy, you will learn that poverty is multidimensional. The multidimensionality of poverty is a major theoretical impediment in understanding how it functions in the real world. The ambiguity of our development policy is primarily linked to our shallow and frivolous intellectual treatment of poverty as an untamable evil. We end up feeling pity for the poor when our strategy to address this multidimensionality of poverty fails. As long as we treat poverty as a complex and elusive notion, we will never be able to devise a pragmatic and workable development strategy. What is the real nature of poverty then? In a multidimensional approach, poverty is economic, social, cultural, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual....

Assessment of Root Causes of Suicide Cases among Women in Ghizer District Formerly Known as Gilgit Baltistan During (2000-2004). Researchers Aziz Ahmad & Sultan Rahim Khan Root Causes of Attempting Suicides. 1.        Family clashes/ Domestic Violence 2.        Blames and Doubts on Character. 3.        Forced and Early Marriages 4.        Honour Killing 5.        Stress, Pychiatric disorder and fear 6.        Poverty and drug addiction 7.        Sense of insecurity among married women 8.        Failure of Girl student in Exams Conclusions and Recommendations. This study concludes that suicide as a social issue is increasing especially amongst young women in the District Ghizer of Northern Areas. Over the Period of 5...