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in Pakistan. It examines the changes in the pattern of maternal health care practices and the extent to which inequities … in access to those services have changed over the past two decades. Using two datasets—the Pakistan Demographic and …
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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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data for Pakistan. Three methods have been used to assess the functional form and stability of the relationship between …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
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to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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Education (C.A.B.E.) held on 10-11 August, 2004, a Committee of C.A.B.E. was constituted vide Order dated 8.9.04 of the Ministry … in Art. 21-A of the Constitution, and (b) To examine other issues related to elementary education for achieving the … objective of free and compulsory basic education.†This is its report …
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