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    Gender and land reforms in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2010
    Women’s land ownership and control have important connections with their empowerment in Pakistan’s agricultural context. However, the link between these has largely remained unexplored; and there has been negligible research to determine how many women own or control land in Pakistan.
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    Pakistan energy vision 2035

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan is undergoing an unprecedented energy crisis. There is a demand and supply shortfall of 8000MW in the country, resulting serve repercussions for the economy as a whole. In order to address the mammoth of this power shortage, government needs to formulate a definite strategy for the future.
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    Air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    With increasing urbanisation and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Experiments with industrial policy: the case of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    In today’s post-industrial era high performing economies have information technology and high value added services as their drivers of growth and for Pakistan to catch up, the long suppressed industrial and manufacturing sectors first need to be unleashed in order to provide the unemployed masses with jobs and promote innovation.
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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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    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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    The clash of narratives: swat military operation against the Taliban

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    The Pakistani state launched a major military operation against the local Taliban militants on 8th May, 2009 in Swat, which is situated in Pakistan’s north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that borders Afghanistan. The state simultaneously initiated an anti-Taliban propaganda campaign to create legitimacy and consensus for the operation.
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    Importing liquefied natural gas (LNG): a policy analysis

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan is in the midst of a severe energy crisis that largely stemmed from a mismanagement of natural resources in the country. Weak regulatory and pricing mechanisms in the natural gas sector have led to huge disparities between demand and supply.
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    Tunisian women in politics: From constitution makers to electoral contenders

    Fride, 2014
    The role of women in Tunisia’s democratic transition has attracted much attention. Heirs to a reformist tradition introduced by Tunisia’s first post-independence president, Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian women early on enjoyed more rights than their regional and some of their international counterparts.
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    Urban management: the redevelopment of the Mitchells plain town centre

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Mitchells Plain is about 20km from the Cape Town city centre. It was built in the 1970s as a township for people classified as ‘Coloured’, who were forcibly removed from areas that had been declared ‘whites only’ under the Group Areas Act.

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