Pakistani religious schools, commonly known as madrassas. Given the importance placed on the subject by policymakers in Pakistan … landscape in Pakistan has changed substantially in the past decade, but this is due to an explosion of private schools, an … important fact that has been left out of the debate on Pakistani education. Moreover, when the authors look at school choice …

Education is central to giving children the building blocks for a life free of poverty. When schools fail to deliver … of a new public-private education partnership in Pakistan at the request of the government. Private schools in the …

This report shows that after a decade of moderate growth but little or no long term change in rural poverty in Pakistan … and poverty reduction. Nonetheless, Pakistan has made important strides in the last several years to promote rural growth …, agricultural output, rural incomes, rural poverty and social welfare indicators all showed marked improvements between 2001-02 and …

priority poverty issues associated with freight transport in Pakistan; (iv) identification jointly with stakeholders of …The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 framework for economic growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high … sector constitutes 10 percent of Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 6 percent of the employment in the …

Pakistan is not on track to achieve most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health, nutrition and … population. Given its current rate of progress, in 2015 Pakistan's infant mortality rate (IMR) will be 65 deaths per 1,000 live … births respectively. Pakistan will not achieve the MDG related to nutrition. The review aims to develop a limited set of …

The vision of Pakistan's social protection strategy to reach the poor and vulnerable (2007) is 'to develop an … non poor households into poverty, and poor households into deeper poverty; and 3) to promote investment in human and … medium run and of interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty. This vision is fully consistent with the World Bank …

This report is part of an ongoing project to understand poverty, growth, and human development in Pakistan. It argues … mitigating poverty and broadening access to social services in Pakistan. Neither debt reform nor the mere availability of donor … that if the country does not close its social gap, its long-term ability to grow economically, alleviate poverty, and …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the South Asia region. Macroeconomic indicators such as … school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, total greenhouse gas emissions and inflation, among others, are included for …