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This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks involved in reporting highly sensitive stories. Though all countries in South Asia have formal...
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describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … infrastructure projects in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) region, connecting Nepal, eastern India …, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. This paper uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to address how these infrastructure …
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scholarship in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She also examines the feminist engagement in terms of political â …€˜practice’ with nationalism and the nation-state in India. Indian feminists have been critical of the class character of nationalism …
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India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three … south - Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - on five river systems - the …
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One sixth of the population of Bhutan is displaced in Nepal and India. The prolonged exile of Bhutanese refugees living … in Nepal and India is a major human rights deficit in the South Asian region, and attempts to resolve the issue on the … Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal. The mission report highlighted the stalemate in the talks between the Bhutan and Nepal …
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The Report examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within each of these transitions, governments need not...
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Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the garment items were on India’s sensitive lists and did … not face concessional treatment. Though many of the items have been subsequently removed from India’s sensitive list, the … imports of these items to India have not increased significantly. The paper uses secondary data to examine the revealed …
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This paper examines the functioning of Parliaments in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka1 in order to gauge the …
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Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited; health workers are often not skilled and confident in caring for newborn infants; and there are inequalities across all these factors. The best...
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