This chapter starts by giving the background, explaining the relevance, listing its main goals and giving an overview that will guide the entire study.

Pakistan has a variety of privately managed schools. Inspired by the corporate model large school systems offer franchise to small schools in the name of better quality education, leading to better market acceptability. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound and widespread negative impact on the lives of millions of households around the globe. Particularly, hard hit were those households who were already marginalized and the beneficiaries ...

The impacts of migration on the left-behind children in Pakistan are less explored. This research aims to contribute by separately examining the impacts of both internal and international migration of fathers on the ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the rural livelihood of small-scale farmers. It identifies the factors which have affected them the most and their strategies for adjusting to the shocks ...

This study examines the role that son preference plays in determining the desire for an additional child in Pakistan. It argues that the desire for an additional child is among other factors largely determined by women’s ...

In Pakistan, the phenomenon of dropout is observed at all educational levels, spread in all areas of the country. The rate of dropout however is the highest for secondary education (grade 9 & 10) in both urban and rural ...

The rise of new digital technologies and their rapid expansion is transforming the world as we know it. The federal and provincial governments in Pakistan have been increasingly trying to transition towards modern, ...

Pakistan’s patriarchal backdrop sets up the perfect stage for an atrocious act such a domestic violence. Domestic violence also known as Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious challenge for human development all over ...

This study looks at the impact of remittances on well-being of children aged under 5 in Punjab, Pakistan. By using the logistic regression model, we analyze the impact of remittances on well-being in terms of child’s ...