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    Tax Reforms in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Taxes affect the citizens, economy, businesses and public service delivery of any country. It is a major source of government revenue in most countries. If a government is therefore unable to collect adequate taxes and use them effectively and efficiently, the result is usually economic instability and poor service delivery to the public.
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    Assessing the impact of financial sector reform on Pakistan's economy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993
    As in many other less developed countries, policy makers in Pakistan have accepted a series of neoliberal reforms. Included among these are financial sector reforms such as interest rate liberalisation. This paper demonstrates that there is very weak support at best for the neo-liberal hypotheses about financial liberalisation and that such liberalisation is regressive.
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    Structural adjustment, labour and the poor in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1995
    In his much cited article, Huntington stated "Through the International Monetary Fund and other international economic institutions, the West promotes its economic interests and imposes on other nations, the economic policies it thinks appropriate".  Such statements are enough to make even the most level headed Third World thinkers paranoid.
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    Draft study: reforming tax system in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Taxes affect citizens, economy of the country, businesses, governance mechanisms, etc. Not only revenue mobilisation, an effective system of taxation helps in formalising the economy, encourages economic growth, shapes political cohesion between tiers of the Government, and results in increase in social sector service delivery.
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    Policy symposium on taxation and energy reforms

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is a policy research institute and the oldest civil society think tank in Pakistan, which produces knowledge on sustainable development to enhance the capacity of government and private sector in making informed policy decisions and to engage civil society on issues of public interest.
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    IMF stand-by arrangement for Pakistan and its inconclusive end- what went wrong?

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    Pakistan economy, after having witnessed an impressive rate of growth with relatively greater price stability, low incidence of foreign debt and many other favourable social and economic indicators, especially since 2003-04 up till the end of 2007, started facing serious macroeconomic imbalances.
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    Energy and tax reforms: household analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Energy and tax reforms: firm-level analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Using Information and Communication Technology to spport women's entrepreneurship in Central and West Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    For micro and small enterprises, the use of ICT has led not only to better business performance but also better living conditions. It can also be particularly effective in loosening constraints on women in enterprise development. However, women lag behind men in access to technology and use ICT differently. Understanding why can help leverage ICT to help women’s businesses.
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    Reserve Management in Asia: changing contours and challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Reserve management assumed centre stage in policymaking in Asia after the massive collateral damage caused during the 1997-98 East Asian financial crisis spreading all over the region.

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