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07 Pages : 94-129

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).07      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).07      Published : Sep 2018

Government Sector Performance of Pakistan, South Asia and 34 OED Countries-International Policy Issues in the Contemporary World

    The paper focuses on the various aspects especially as globally accepted fact is that social and key economic indicators are influenced by the government activities. Public Sector Performance and efficiency reflect government priorities. The paper evaluates the public sector performance of Pakistan by calculating the Public Sector Performance Index based on seven indicators and these seven indicators are further classified into two broad groups. Many international studies have carried out the performance evaluation of public sectors of industrialized countries missing the public sector performance of Pakistan with other countries. With the aim, Public Sector Performance of Pakistan was compared with countries of South Asia and some developed countries. The research analyzes the public sector performance indicators of countries to calculate the overall performance. The paper aims to compare public sector performance of Pakistan with South Asian Countries and members of Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which currently includes 34 Countries.

    Performance Indicator, Public Sector, Performance Evaluation, OECD, Pakistan
    (1) Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman
    Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership and Management Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Ahsan Rafiq
    Research Scholar, Department of Leadership and Management Sciences, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Waseem Ishaque
    Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

37 Pages : 363-372

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).37      10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).37      Published : Mar 2021

Evaluating Performance of Insurance Sector in Pakistan Through Benchmark Performance Indicators

    Benchmarking has been very important in measurement, comparison, and improvement. Important benchmarking indicators such as leverage, liquidity, stock performance, profitability, asset utilization and growth are used to examine the performance of various companies in different businesses. The current study is based on secondary data, which were collected from annual reports of 14 insurance companies of the Listed Pakistan Stock Exchange during the period of 2014-2018. For this purpose, the Technique for order Preferences by the Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) based on Grey Relation Analysis (GRA) has been used. The findings of the study help managers of moderate growth and low growth insurance companies to formulate policies to improve their performance by looking at the policies of highly growing Insurance companies. The results concluded that overall ranking of insurance companies from 2014 to 2018, JLIL ranked 1st in overall performance in the year 2014. It is due to high net sales and total investment returns as compared to other insurance companies.

    Benchmark, Performance Indicators, Insurance Sector, TOPSIS, GRA, FSA
    (1) Bakhtawar
    Institute of Business Management Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Kashif Hamid
    Institute of Business Management Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Ali Raza
    Lecturer, Department of Commerce, Government Associate College for Boys, Kameer Town Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan.