The UNDP’S Human Development Index (HDI) has been employed widely for focusing
on the nexus between the human development and economic growth. The index’s
simplicity in characterizing development as a composite of ...
The Millennium Development Goals provided countries with well-rounded objectives
for achieving human development over a period of twenty-five years. Pakistan is not on
track to achieve health-related goals. With the ...
The Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) 2012 shows a growing prevalence of a
shadow education sector in Pakistan with 34% of private school students and 17% of
public school students taking private tuition in Punjab. ...
While there has been improvement in schooling outcomes for girls in the decade 2001-
2011, progress is uneven within Pakistan. Rural girls lag far behind urban girls and
progress across provinces is uneven. The transition ...
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 ...
This paper explores the impact of increasing openness and connectivity of rural areas to
the outside world on health outcomes and awareness levels. The focus is on in rural
Pakistan with outcomes being examined over a ...
We analyse educational attainment over three generations in rural Punjab, Pakistan to
determine if the fruits of post-independence development have translated into comparable
rates of educational and social opportunities ...
Engel’s law, an empirical regularity observed for around 200 years, states that the share
of food in household expenditure declines with households’ total expenditure. The
empirical regularity expressed in Engel’s law ...