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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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trade analysis in Pakistan and calculates an updated set of terms of trade indices for agriculture relative to industry. The … have remained unfavorable for Pakistan's agriculture during almost the entire 2000-2009 period. Agriculture's terms of …In 2008 the Government of Pakistan agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase the tax/Gross Domestic …
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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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