The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established itself as the twelfth-largest economy in the world, the largest West Asian economic power, worlds largest oil producer, and a strong and capable force in international politics, particularly in the Sunni Islamic world. However, at present it is at crossroads. Should it continue as akingdom or usher in

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established itself as the twelfth-largest economy in the world, the largest West Asian economic power, world's largest oil producer, and a strong and capable force in international politics, particularly in the Sunni Islamic world. However, at present it is at crossroads. Should it continue as a 'kingdom' or usher in the process of inclusive political representation? This volume answers such questions and explores how the state is coping with domestic, regional and global developments to remain relevant in the changing times. It provides a holistic overview of a slew of economic, political, cultural, military and security policy measures that have been initiated by the government. The work also offers a detailed analysis of Saudi Arabia's relations with three significant powers - USA, China and India - and how they are evolving under new geopolitical and geostrategic dynamics. This book will interest strategists, policymakers, researchers and students of international relations, geopolitics, political science and political economy as well as the informed reader.

This book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2022), providing coverage encompassing advanced conventional energy technology, renewable and non-conventional energy technology, electric mobility, energy storage, energy, environment and society, industry innovations in energy, sector-coupled energy system, and energy education. The contents of this book are of use to researchers from not only scientific background, but also economics and anthropology. It encourages researchers to conduct research on the ways to assess and analyse the acceptance of the novel energy forms among the mass population from a financial and social perspective.

An emergency is always an unforeseen incident and one must be ready to face this challenge. With this perspective in mind this book has been written in a very simple manner so that one can identify it, do something about it, understand what will be done for it in a hospital and also learn something more if one is interested in it.

This book is one part of ongoing research project of Ericsson AB together with Blekinge institute of technology on the aspect of Ericsson Power modules. The aim of this project is to apply signal processing method on the measured current signal of inductor component of Ericsson BMR 450 Buck converter by using software Matlab, the method should be able to remove the noisy part which exists on the measured signal, so the signal can be undulated within normal range. A set of solutions have presented in this report. The solutions include the Analog and discrete filter design, the algorithm of reconstruct signal, method of finding the signal slopes and algorithm of finding current average values of signal, also presented in the last chapter of report. The result of this book project provides possible valuable reference for other research part of Power modules and helps the future development technology of DC/DC converter.

Knowledge is power only when it changes people and then the world. Life is a game, but not lottery. So a good player is destined to win. In other words, one must play well in order to win. Once you have taken the lessons of this course, you as a success warrior will never get demoralized in life's battlefield. Once successful, you will always remain unique from then on.

The American choreographer Alonzo King showcases his Lines Ballet company with three contemporary works - 'Triangle of the Squinches', 'Dust and Light' and 'Scherezade'.

career planning is an important decision in the life of a person. Individuals vary in productive capacity and utility preferences therefore all do not evenly fit for each occupational group. Selection of occupation has a direct bearing on the economic development of the country as the level of output, national income and distribution of wealth is decided by the type of occupation that labor selects. The world of work is like a riddle. It is not easy for an individual to understand and select the appropriate one from various occupations. It is necessary for one to have massive information about real situation in the labor market and labor market trends. Information that can be helpful in deciding about occupation includes information about nature of work, personal interests and attributes, skill requirements, education, experience, physical working conditions, level of stress, career advancement opportunities and alternatives available. Current study has investigated the aspects affecting occupational selection among age group of 14-65 yeas in Pakistan and also level of gender segregation in occupations. Further the factors responsible for this segregation are also worked out.

Fruits and vegetables are important component in agriculture sector. Production and marketing studies were used to explore the cost parameters of the production and marketing and understand the inefficiency during production process and marketing channels. To observe the inefficiency during production, stochastic frontier production was used by using the primary data from two Tehsils of the Sargodha region known as Pakistan's California. It was concluded that all the input variables was directly related to technical efficiency except irrigation. Negative sign of the irrigation showed inverse relationship between irrigation and technical efficiency due to intercrop irrigation which resulted in over irrigation. Technical inefficiency model showed a positive relationship between age of the farmers, years of education and source of credit (dummy variable) while age-squared is inversely related to technical inefficiency. The marketing studies showed that by decreasing the number of the intermediaries in both form i.e. open and packed, not only the purchased price of the consumer decreased but also marketing efficiency of the market increased.

The study analyzed the constraints faced by the farmers to rural credit by utilizing two household level data sets. The first survey Pakistan Rural Household Survey (PRHS) 2001 was utilized to study the purpose, source structure and utilization of rural credit and; the second which covered nearly 160 households from Sargodha District 2007 was used to calculate the demand and interest rate function by applying Heckman two stage procedures. The focus of this study was to find out the affect of credit constraints of institutional credit on consumption and production pattern of the rural farm households. After measuring the probability of being constrained used to study affect on consumption pattern of farmers who were credit constraint. The frontier production function was used to study the affect of credit constrained and un-constrained farmers. The study will help to make the policy makers to make a well structured policy for the credit-constrained farmers. This will ultimately used as an instrument to reduce the poverty in Pakistan. We are highly obliged and indebted to Dr. Sohail J. Malik for his kindness, willing cooperation, support, and assistance throughout this work.

Pakistan will soon become water poor country. In many areas, farmers are pumping ground water faster than nature is replenishing it, causing a steady drop in water table. Groundwater over-pumping could now be the single biggest threat to Indus agriculture. Over- tapped rivers are easy to see and the consequences fairly visible. Ground water overdraft, though hidden from view, is even more serious problem. This coupled with global warming will further exacerbate the issue of water insecurity in Pakistan. The pace of dam building is slowing down because of the resource constraints; environmental concerns and regional conflict (hydro-politics). The surface waters though scarce, if managed properly, could only ensure the sustainability of agriculture. Now that water is increasingly scarce, however, raising productivity- getting more service, satisfaction and benefit out of every liter we remove from a river (Indus, and other tributaries), lakes, mountain spring, or under ground aquifer-is the key to meeting future needs of the country. Thus water productivity-getting more crops per drop seems to be the agricultural frontier for Indus Basin in the 21st century.

Financial crisis of 2008, a disastrous consequence of weak financial sector performance, affected masses of people all over the globe. This highlighted the significance of financial sector in every economy all over the world. Financial system works quietly in the background, yet contributes a lot in economic development through various channels resulting in employment generation and poverty reduction. Therefore a developed, dynamic, efficient and sustainable financial sector works as a pivot for the economic development of any economy. Over the time Pakistan has passed through many changes to improve its financial system and related economic policies. Those in turn have many repercussions on the economic scene of the country. This book is an effort to provide an answer to the question that either this financial sector development has contributed towards economic development of the country or not? We found working on time series data from 1973 to 2007 related to Pakistan that a developed financial sector blooms not only in human capacity building but also in economic uplift of the country through improving investment and trade and lessening the unemployment rate in the country.

Basic economic problem faced by all developing countries is the allocation of inherently limited resources to various alternatives ends. Exploitation of international competitiveness is the most appropriate criteria to act as guiding factor here. The present study is aimed at analyzing the agricultural comparative advantage of Pakistan and its implications for trade development. Four crops wheat, cotton, rice and sugarcane were selected. Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) provides data for measurement of comparative advantage, competitiveness and policy distortions. Comparative advantage is being criticized for its "static" nature. Therefore, "Price Risk Analysis" is also carried out to evaluate alternate scenarios; utilizing the two softwares i.e. the "Best Fit" and @ Risk 4.5.3. The study would surely help the policy makers to assess the potential of investing in research and development of agriculture not only to maintain the current foothold but to further improve the competitiveness of Pakistan agriculture in international scenario. This study will also provide researchers and policy makers with information for formulation of food, agriculture and trade policies.

Pakistan is considered an outlier as far as poverty dilemma and its growth links are concerned. This book is finding out the dynamics of rural poverty and income inequality in Pakistan while assessing the impact of various factors on poverty status of households along with estimation of pro-poor growth scenarios across time and regions. The short term PEGR reveals that agricultural growth is anti-poor in Pakistan and in all provinces from 1990-91 to 1992-93 and in the subsequent years showed pro-poor growth in rural Pakistan. The regression model reflects that one percent increase in average household income reduces poverty by 0.25 percent at national level. Logit regression revealed that there is great likehood of low incidence of rural poverty with the increase in land use intensity, cropping intensity, agricultural growth, education and number of wage earners in a family. The findings suggest that the government should focus on poverty equivalent growth rate in agriculture sector rather than the actual GDP growth rates. In order to improve PEGR, the poverty alleviation policy must be in tandem with rationalincome distribution.

The book has been structured into three parts, namely, Analytical Meditation, The Death of Diseases: Psychological Vaccination, Communication with the Heart: The Utterances that Provide Energy, and The Architecture of the Mind: The Psychology of Spirituality. The entire approach is founded on the concept of the combination of Analysis (or self-enquiry), Meditation, Self-Hypnosis, and Prayer and is expected to simultaneously work on the different dimensions of the mind -emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and behavioral. It is expected, as hundreds of the author's readers have reported to have experienced, that the method will work instantly on the mind, without the reader's having to do any special mental exercise as is typical of most meditation practices.