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    Toxic Mercury and Mercury Amalgam Use in Dentistry – the need to review and revise current BDS curriculum at dental teaching institutions

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    The extreme hazardousness and toxicity of the only known liquid element, mercury, is well established. Mercury has been ranked third in the list of toxic substances and has been adjudged as a toxic substance to the ecosystem, wildlife and human. It also affects the nervous system and functioning of brain, especially of children.
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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 Imbalances in Global Governance System

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Since its existence, mankind has been endeavouring for the recognition of its individual identity and way of life. Gradually, it evolved from communal to various modes of living throughout the chapters of time. History narrates that such progressive transformation to communal livelihood was followed by societal expansion and ownership of resources that includes land, minerals, water, etc.
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    Environment: a people’s perspective

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Human development has been defined in the Human Development Reports as extending people’s range of choices. This requires at least two kinds of investments in humans. First, livelihoods need to be assured so individuals have the capacity to make choices.
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    Boom and Bust? A Political Economy Reading of India's Growth Experience, 1993-2013

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    For much of the 1990s and 2000s, India was seen as the 'new kid on the block' among countries that were growth success stories, and was one of the three fastest growing economies in the world, along with China and Vietnam. This narrative of India's emerging growth miracle came to a sudden stop in 2011–2014, as growth slowed down considerably.
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    Access to affordable land for housing: initial regulatory impact assessment

    Urban LandMark, 2006
    In South Africa, provision of affordable, well-situated housing close to existing services and work places is hampered by the high cost and scarcity of appropriate land. Consequently, most new low-income housing projects have been developed on the urban periphery.
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    Language-teaching and world view in Urdu medium schools in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    The ordinary state run school teaches most subjects in Urdu in most parts of Pakistan. And even when it does teach in Sindhi or Pashto, Urdu is taught as an additional language. As such, the world view of the products of state schools is more influenced by Urdu than by any other language in the country taken as a whole.
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    Equality: space and measurement

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    It is argued that measures such as those involving the proportion of people who achieve some level of a component of well-being can proxy opportunity and that ordinal information alone should be used to arrive at the ranking of overall inequality. These arguments are brought to bear on the problem of making international comparisons of gender inequality.
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    Equitable education in Pakistan: addressing gender and rural-urban gaps in lower secondary education

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    The driving force behind this project was the motivation to attain good governance in Pakistan through the introduction and implementation of social accountability (SAc) tools.
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    Anti-corruption strategy: a civil society perspective

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    For the developing world, corruption has been termed as a substantial barrier in the way of prosperity. The endemic use of public offices for personal gains causes a blow to national kitty – leaving little budgetary space for provision of quality public service delivery. Corruption is not only responsible for siphoning off public money, but also for misallocation of limited resources.

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