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In an effort to improve employment outcomes and industrial productivity, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) has launched … maintenance of health, safety, and environmental standards in economic activities. Labor regulation in Pakistan is excessive by …
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Pakistan, where electric fans are the prevalent technology for space cooling. Starting in 2018, the World Bank implemented … several initiatives in collaboration with the fan industry and other stakeholders in Pakistan to address as a matter of … Pakistan implemented through the World Bank and others development finance institutions, potentially incentivizing the purchase …
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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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"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
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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 …
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