There is no clear-cut, comprehensive or cohesive government policy on non-profit organisations in Pakistan. Policy documents talk about non-profit organisations (NPOs) in a piecemeal fashion. The overall posture of national government towards the non-profit sector ranges from indifference to...

Pakistan's development project that was initiated in the 1950s with a focus on creating a prosperous and quitable society, making the benefits of scientific advancement and progress available to all the people, got lost somewhere in the labyrinth of development fashions and econometric modelling...

This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1996. UPAP gives loans to self-constituted groups of women who would be considered uncreditworthy by normal banking...

Es bestätigt sich, daß die wirtschaftliche und politische Entwicklung die Auseinandersetzung und den Wettbewerb innerhalb der modernen Gesellschaft fördert. Ethnische Konflikte werden - insbesondere unter politischen Vorzeichen - in Ausmaß und Intensität verstärkt. Die Bedeutung der...