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    The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

    UN, 2014
    Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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    Pakistan: energy sector appraisal

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    The Economic Survey of Pakistan notes that during 2011-12 around USD 4.8 billion or 2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) was lost due to power sector outages. This is a major factor behind Pakistan’s disappointing economic performance over the past 5 years, with GDP growth averaging under 3 per cent (GoP 2013).
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    Connecting the drops an Indus basin roadmap for cross-border water research, data sharing, and policy coordination

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Decision makers in India and Pakistan will have to overcome a host of overlapping socio-economic, environmental, and political pressures as they endeavour to ensure their countries’ future water needs and sustainably manage the resources of the Indus River Basin that both nations share.
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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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    Study on effluents from selected sugar mills in Pakistan: potential environmental, health, and economic consequences of an excessive pollution load

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2006
    Pakistan’s sugar industry, considered to be one of the best organised industrial sectors in the country, is also among the country’s leading economic enterprises, directly or indirectly employing over 10 million people (Hagler Bailley, 1999).
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    Economic efficiency and community participation: applying the principles of the global compact – some lessons from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2003
    The idea of the Global Compact (GC) was presented first in the World Economic Forum in 1999. The intention was to bring international business leaders together with various UN agencies to pursue its vision of a sustainable and inclusive global economy. The Global Compact is based on nine principles in the areas of human rights, labour rights and the environment.
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    Equity in public sector university admissions policy in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1995
    The enrolment structure of Pakistan's leading public sector university shows that upper income groups are disproportionately represented relative to their size in the population and relative to their total tax contribution whereas the reverse is true for the poorer income groups.
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    Brief on human rights case no 15-K/1992 in the supreme court of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993
    The risks from electromagnetic radiation are major concerns for communities where a grid station is to be located. It is of even more concern where the location is heavily populated. This brief is on the human rights case against the location of a grid station in the densely populated area of New Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan.
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    Proposed revision to Eight Plan format

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994
    The recent changes in the world economy have coincided with a fundamental rethinking of the approach towards economic development. Included in this is the shift towards privatization, deregulation, liberalization, and decentralization. Pakistan has taken the lead in many areas by introducing policy and institutional changes.
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    Population and environment: draft chapter for the ICPD Pakistan country report

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993
    The interaction between natural resources and its users outlines the concept of environment, thereby making it a dynamic phenomenon wherein a society determines its use pattern to sustain its population and enhance their life chances.

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