Microinsurance in Pakistan is still in its early stages. More than half of current microinsurance policies in Pakistan are being offered through the Benazir Income Support Program, with the remainder being offered in ...

Pakistan has launched a far reaching social protection programs. The federal government’s Benazir Income Support Program has, at its core, an unconditional cash grant for the poorest households. Responding to the concern ...

Pakistan has a large and dispersed primary public health system, which provides citizens access to trained doctors and staff, and to subsidized medicines. Despite the existence of this system, both the use of the facilities ...

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 ...

This paper investigates the economic (i.e. labour market) outcomes of ‘training’ for individuals in Pakistan. The labour market benefits of general education have been relatively well explored in the literature and ...

In this paper we present descriptive statistics on the Government School Education System in Sindh. The data are obtained from latest administrative annual school census in Sindh (2011-12). Schooling System in Sindh ...