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 ...
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 ...
The intervention of local elites is often cited as an impediment to policy implementation in
many developing countries. In this paper we present a newly collected household data set
from Punjab, Pakistan, which can be ...
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 ...
Dr. Ijaz Nabi(Lahore School of Economics, 2013-03-21)
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 ...
One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand
its education system. With important political and demographic changes taking place,
greater devolution and strengthened democracy, ...