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    The teaching of Pashto: identity versus employment

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pashto was associated with Pashtun identity in British times, this was seen as an anti-British and antinon-Muslim tendency. It was anti-British because the British official policy was to favour the teaching of Urdu. It was anti non-Muslim, at least in the eyes of Hindus and Sikhs, because they felt that their language and culture would be under threat.
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    Anatomy of ethnic militancy: case of Karachi, Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The crux of the problem is that the Pakistan is facing a constitutional crisis. The 1973 Constitution was framed in the aftermath of the rupture of Islamabad-Dacca relations and the secession of East Pakistan. The constitution paid considerable attention to Centre-province and inter-provincial relations.
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    Trade determinants and potential of Syria: using a gravity model, with an estimation of the Syrian crisis’ impact on exports

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The Syrian economy has achieved relatively high economic growth rates, exceeding 5% on average, during the last decade. At the same time, the Syrian economy had been facing a reduction in oil production - the main source of public revenues and exports - accompanied by an increase in local demand on oil derivatives.
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    Mitigating ‘non-conflict’ violence by creating peaceful political settlements

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Understanding and addressing ‘non-conflict’ violence is a key challenge for development. Different types of ‘non-conflict’ violence, such as homicide, massacres, armed robbery and gender-based violence, which occur outside of armed conflict contexts involving state or other parties, are not only reflections of social problems like youth unemployment and gang culture.
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    Resource rents, institutions and violent civil conflicts

    2013
    Natural resources have been blamed for inducing slow growth and sparking civil conflicts and violence. This paper first develops a model to account for the hazard of armed civil conflicts as a manifestation of the natural resource curse which is mediated by the quality of both economic and political institutions.
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    Terrorism and integration of Muslim immigrants

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper studies the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration.
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    The language of employment: the case of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    One cannot find employment in a modern state without being able to read, write and speak (in that order) a certain, standardised, written language. In short, to be part of the salariat in Pakistan one must know a certain language the characteristics of which are investigated in this paper.
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    The teaching of Sindhi and Sindhi ethnicity

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Sindhi is one of the most ancient languages of India. The government, therefore, gets a number of books, including Aesop’s Fables, translated from different languages into Sindhi. Among these are books on arithmetic, geography, drawing and history.
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    Topic guide: conflict, climate and environment

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This Topic Guide outlines the importance and complexity of the links between conflict, climate and environment. The Topic Guide focuses on violent conflict at the sub-national, national and trans-boundary level in relation to natural resources, climate variability, climate change and environmental change. Key messages are outlined as:
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    Natural resources: blessing or curse

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2010
    Natural resource based political conflicts are not only unique to Pakistan but are now quite visible in many developing and transition countries and this topic has also caught the interest of development researchers and political policy analysts.

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