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This paper looks at the Indus Basin Water Strategy for Pakistan. It begins with a historical overview of the Indus … Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), the Indus Basin Replacement Works (1960-1980) and the Indus Basin Salinity Control Efforts … (1960-2000). The paper then looks at the IBIS irrigation and salinity control investments that have taken place over the …
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Land titling and ownership rights have recently been advocated in policy circles as a powerful tool for poverty reduction. The lack of formal titling prevents the use of property as collateral, and hence prevents the capital embedded in these assets from being "unlocked." Some studies show a...
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This study is based on data from a cross sectional survey of 120 farms located along the Mithaluck irrigation canal in … method,and applied to a linear programming model to estimate the value productivity of irrigation water. Returns to … irrigation varied by farm size and location on the canal, but were generally found to be very high relative to the estimated …
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This paper investigates the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Pakistan with aggregate time … schooling in Pakistan than in OECD economies is consistent with very substantial education under-investment in Pakistan … estimated to have accounted for just under one-fifth of the increase in Pakistan’s GDP per head. Since the 1990s, the impact of …
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One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand its education system. With … of the majority of the population. Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, has taken several education reform initiatives to …
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Whether to provide services by the public or the private sector has been at the center of debates within governments and those in the international aid industry for decades. Unfortunately, this debate has often been cast in terms of absolutes with the private sector either as savior or demon....
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This paper investigates the economic (i.e., labor market) outcomes of “training” for individuals in Pakistan. The labor … market benefits of general education have been relatively well explored in the literature and specifically in Pakistan. They …,000 households in Pakistan, collected in 2007. Multinomial logit estimates of occupational attainment show how training determines …
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This study examines the impact of the quality of corporate governance, as measured by a specially constructed corporate governance index, on the expected cost of equitycalculated using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach. A total of 114 listed companies were investigated to analyze...
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import demand functions with reference to Pakistan’s trading partners. We use GARCH-based exchange rate volatilities and the … with that of the short run. The results show that, when Pakistan employed the US dollar as the vehicle currency with its … remained unaffected by volatility distortions when Pakistan traded with its developing partners using bilateral exchange rates …
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This paper looks at the case of Pakistan’s decentralization reform of 2001– 09 and its impact on civil service … political and fiscal decentralization for service delivery in Pakistan. …
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