earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …

of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. An econometric decomposition of promotion decisions …

consequences. The data come from rural Pakistan, where, as in the rest of Asia, son preference is substantial and there are large …

"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …

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 …

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 …