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Domestic Regulation and Global Movement of Skilled Professionals : A Case Study of Indian Professionals in the United States
World Bank - 2013
Changes in demographics and patterns of investment in human capital are creating opportunities for international trade in professional services. As populations in rich countries age, developing countries are seeing an increase in the proportion of working-age people. At the same time, the...
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Pakistan - Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment of Federal Government
World Bank - 2012
organizational elements of Pakistan's PFM structure. …
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Pakistan - Public Expenditure Management : Strategic Issues and Reform Agenda
World Bank - 2013
This report focuses principally on three key dimensions of better public expenditure management in Pakistan. First, it …, remains central to restoring Pakistan's fiscal health. But as the experience of the past few years shows, the structural …
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Pakistan - Public Expenditure Management : Accelerated Development of Water Resources and Irrigated Agriculture
World Bank - 2013
This report focuses principally on three key dimensions of better public expenditure management in Pakistan. First, it …, remains central to restoring Pakistan's fiscal health. But as the experience of the past few years shows, the structural …
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Pakistan - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa : Public Expenditure Review
World Bank - 2013
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is one of the least-developed and crisis-prone provinces in Pakistan. Located in far north of … levels of growth, socio-economic underdevelopment and lack of public services compared to other provinces of Pakistan …. Cognizant of the challenges to growth in KP and acting upon the assessment of Pakistan Government's Post-Crisis Needs Assessment …
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Pakistan - Towards an Integrated National Safety Net System : Assisting Poor and Vulnerable Households, An Analysis of Pakistan's Main Cash Transfer Program
World Bank - 2013
The vision of Pakistan's social protection strategy to reach the poor and vulnerable (2007) is 'to develop an … promote sustainable growth. The focus of this report is Pakistan's main safety net program: the Benazir Income Support Program … protection includes labor policy, contributory social insurance, and social care services as well as safety nets. Pakistan …
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Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters : evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India
Sinha, Nistha - 2009
"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and encourage investment in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our Daughter,...
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State Fiscal Reforms in India : Progress and Prospects
World Bank - 2013
Following two decades of relatively rapid growth, and a decade of liberalization, there is growing confidence within India, as well as internationally, about the state of the economy, and India's development potential. Nonetheless, and particularly since the late nineties, when India's states...
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Case Study 1 - Bangalore, India : Participatory Approaches in Budgeting and Public Expenditure Management
World Bank - 2012
Inspired by a private sector practice of conducting client satisfaction surveys, a small group of people in Bangalore2, concerned about the city' deteriorating standards of public services3, initiated an exercise in 1993 to collect feedback from users. User perceptions on the quality,...
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Case Study 3 - Gujarat, India : Participatory Approaches in Budgeting and Public Expenditure Management
World Bank - 2012
The state of Gujarat hosts almost a tenth of India's 80 million tribal people. Despite official rhetoric of significant investment in tribal development projects, results on the ground were questionable. This prompted DISHA (Development Initiatives for Social and Human Action) to get into the...
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