The effectiveness of fiscal policy for economic activities has long been a subject on the applied research agenda and theoretical front for policy makers and academicians since the emergence of macro-economics. Over the years, developing economies failed to finance their public spending through collected revenues. This dissertation is focused to explore the four different facets of fiscal policy for a developing economy, Pakistan. Firstly, tax to GDP ratio of country is not sufficient to meet the public spending for welfare of society and improvement of human resource. Comprehending the importance to increase the tax revenues for economy, the determinants of tax morale in Pakistan are explored, acquiring data from the World Values Survey for the wave of 2010-2014. The estimation is carried out by using weighted ordered probit model that is a more appropriate technique to estimate such type of data. The estimated results demonstrate that confidence in parliament, confidence in civil services and confidence in government affect the tax morale positively and significantly. Moreover, religiosity has impact on people’s behavior and it may be a restriction in the way of tax evasion. The estimated results reveal that population having age of 30-49 years have higher level of tax morale contrary to other groups. It is also disclosed that Pakistani women and married people have higher level of tax morale as compared with man and unmarried people respectively. Institutions play a vital role to explain the varying economic performance across the nations and the impact of fiscal policy to improve institutional quality is still an explored dimension in literature. To find the impact of fiscal policy on institutions, annual time series data covering the time span from 1984-2015 was used and ARDL technique was applied. A new index for twelve institutional indicators taken from International Country Risk Guide was constructed by Principal Component Analysis. The estimated results draw attention that government spending 11 are contributing to improve the quality of institutions at little extent while education and equitable income distribution are also promoting the institutional quality in the country. The impact of institutions and fiscal policy on economic growth is examined using the data from 1984-2015 by applying the ARDL technique. The estimated results signify that government spending and institutions have momentous impact on economic growth of the country. In the same way, education and private investment are boosting the economic growth while trade openness has not significant impact on growth. Finally, the growth maximizing level of government spending for different categories like current expenditure, development expenditures, defense expenditures and overall government expenditures is determined. The data for this section consists of annual time series data for the period of 1984-2015. The Scully Model is used to estimate the optimal level of different categories of government spending that augment real economic growth. The empirical results illustrate that optimal sizes of government expenditures, current expenditures, development expenditures and defense expenditures are 20.66%, 13.18%, 6.75% and 3% of GDP respectively. It is suggested that government has to take serious steps to restore the confidence of people on public institutions to improve the tax morale, which will enhance the tax to GDP ratio of the country. The collected revenues should be spending on welfare oriented projects and free from resource crunch in form of corruption. It will improve the quality of institutions along with boosting economic growth. To attain the potential economic growth, government should have to rethink about different categories of public spending because the estimated optimal points of spending are different from existing trend of expenditures by the government.
شعر و ادب کو پروان چڑھانے میں ادبی شخصیتوں کا اپنا مقام و مرتبہ ہے یہ کیسے ہو سکتا تھا کہ رسائل و جرائد اور اخبارات ان سے پیچھے رہتے خطہ سیالکوٹ کے مقامی رسائل و جرائد اور اخبارات ادب کی ترقی کے لیے ماضی سے اہم خدمات سر انجام دیتے چلے آرہے ہیں۔ان میں ’’نوائے سماج‘‘،’’ندائے سیالکوٹ‘‘،’’ہمدرد پاکستان‘‘ ،’’محنت کش‘‘ اور ’’شبنم‘‘ اہم رسائل و جرائد میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔ان رسائل و جرائد اور اخبارات کے باقاعدہ ادبی ایڈیشن بھی شائع ہوتے رہے ہیں۔
سیالکوٹ کے اخبارات کی موجودہ صف میں ’’صدائے شہر‘‘ ،’’نوائے شمال‘‘ اور ’’اخبار سیالکوٹ‘‘ نمایاں اخبارات ہیں۔رسائل و جرائد کی فہرست میں ’’مرے کالج میگزین ‘‘،’’مفکر‘‘،’’کاوش‘‘، ’’افق‘‘،’’محورِحیات ‘‘، ’’اقدار‘‘، ’’ادراک‘‘، ’’انتخاب‘‘، ’’کیہان‘‘، ’’یدبیضا‘‘، ’’گجر‘‘، ’’کرائیڈن‘‘، اور’’سٹی میگ‘‘آج بھی ادبی خدمات میں اہم کردار ادا کر رہے ہیں۔
’’گجر‘‘ ،’’انتخاب‘‘،’’ید بیضا‘‘ تاب اسلم کے شعور و فکر کا نچوڑ ہیں ان تینوں رسائل وجرائد کو تاب اسلم بڑی عرق ریزی سے ادبی دنیا کے سامنے پیش کرتے رہے ہیں۔ان ادبی رسائل نے بہت سے نئے لکھنے والوں کی راہنمائی کا فریضہ سر انجام دیا ہے۔تاب اسلم کے ان جرائد کو نہ صرف سیالکوٹ بلکہ برصغیر پاک و ہند کے نامور ادبا و شعرا ،ناقدین اور محققین کا قلمی تعاون حاصل رہا۔سیالکوٹ کے اہم ادبی رسائل و جرائد کے تعارف کے لیے تفصیل پیش کی جاتی ہے۔
The Quranic sciences of interpretations and principles of interpretations were originated in the epoch of holy prophet (saw) but compilation of both were started later. This is called principles of interpretations, which is the basic and important part of Islamic studies. Islamic scholars, commentators and explicators explained the holy Quran in the light of principles of interpretations. These are such basic principles those are guide lines for them so they will not deviate or drop the right way while interpreting and explaining the holy verses. These principles are laid down and followed by them so that they may find the will of Allah and actual meaning of holy Quran. A little difference in principles causes a huge difference in interpretation. Different methodology in principles resulted in many schools of thought. This article focusses on examining these schools of thought found in sub-continent and introduce their main books. This article deals with chronological evolution of said knowledge i.e. Principles of interpretations, and Quranic sciences specially originated by the famous principalities and interpreters of sub-continent.
The present study intends to explore some of the contemporary issues of Language and Power that are critically embedded in the dialectics of dominance and resistance and being effected through discursive practices. With these underpinnings, this study focuses on the tense and strained relationship between America and Venezuela and the consequences of such relationship in the form of resistant discourse emanating from the speeches and interviews of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Critical Discourse Analysis as a theoretical construct in Van Dijk’s framework will be applied to analyze the resistant discourse of as many as five speeches and two interviews of Chavez in order to view it against the background of the hegemonic discourses of America; is neighbor to Venezuela and economically and politically more powerful. The thesis seeks to explore the implications of the rhetoric of resistance of the former Venezuelan president in order to determine how it forges a counter discourse to the hegemonic discourse. The study also attempts to determine how it not only tries to accuse America of injustice but also seeks to make the world rethink about the socio-political changes that have been brought through resistant rhetoric. From the perspective of CDA, such counter discourses can be of great help towards effecting a viable social change in the present consumerist age of international politics, as such this study is of a valuable contribution to the volume of research already available in this area.