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    Women’s rights and political representation: past achievements and future challenges

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2014
    This paper summarises the main achievements and challenges for Afghan women’s participation in politics and their access to justice. It also presents the most important reflections amongst key stakeholders about possible ways forward, with the aim of facilitating further discussions in these areas.
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    NEPRA tariff setting strategy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) recently proposed an increase in its utility charges. However, it is difficult to accept the proposal for a higher utility charge. This policy brief examines this proposal vis-à-vis the marginal cost for generating electricity.
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    The environment-poverty nexus: an institutional analysis

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    While there are clearly hypothesized links between poverty and degradation, attempts to demonstrate such links empirically have yielded mixed results. This paper aims at determining the nature, causes and impacts of poverty in Pakistan.
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    Proposal for development of Islamabad municipal conservation strategy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    The development of an environmental management plan has become a necessity for Islamabad. The city is unable to manage its living and natural environment. On the one hand, the inhabitants are facing different environmental problems and on the other hand natural environment is deteriorating at a fast pace.
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    The WTO regime and its possible implications for Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2003
    Lack of transparency and democratic governance is revealed when multilateral trading system is viewed in historical context and in the backdrop of extent of benefits accrued to developing countries. However, the same stands true when it comes to policy making process at national level in many developing countries including Pakistan.
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    The four Cs of government-third sector relations: cooperation, confrontation, complementarity, co-optation

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    All over the world, there are trends of increasing interaction between governments and the Third Sector. Is this the 'start of a beautiful friendship' or are they already 'too close for comfort'? This paper argues that the nature of these complex relationships is poorly understood and often simplified.
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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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    Human rights indicators: a guide to measurement and implementation

    United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2012
    The demand for and the use of indicators in human rights are part of a broader process of systematic work to implement, monitor and realize rights.
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    The 2014 Egyptian constitution: without accountability, checks or balances

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2014
    Since the announcement of the Constituent Assembly that they had completed a new draft constitution, there has been a celebratory atmosphere in Egypt and faith in the ability of the constitution to establish democracy and to protect the sovereignty of the Egyptian state.
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    Social Accountability in Pakistan: Challenges, Gaps, Opportunities and the Way Forward

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Pakistan is presently faced with a number of political and social issues for which Social Accountability holds a desired solution. This paper takes stock of the struggle for the creation of a socially-accountable governance system.

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