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January 2014. Pakistan is on track to meet a fiscal deficit target of 4.8 percent of GDP in FY15. The newly elected government … supported by the IMF, the World Bank and other donors. At present, Pakistan is facing three sources of risk: first is the …
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Pakistan's growth accelerated in FY16, driven by consumption while investment remained low. Exports continued to fall … when soft global demand exacerbated the effects of Pakistan's long-term decline in competitiveness. After achieving …
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Pakistan's economy continues to grow strongly, emerging as one of the top performers in South Asia. Beneath the surface … governments also have a part to play. The special sections of this update analyze some of the specific challenges facing Pakistan …
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This Development Policy Review describes, and evaluates the Government of Pakistan's policies, in six critical areas …
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"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...
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earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …
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of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. An econometric decomposition of promotion decisions …
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consequences. The data come from rural Pakistan, where, as in the rest of Asia, son preference is substantial and there are large …
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