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    Lead exposure and children: blood lead levels in school children resulting from leaded petrol use and increasing road traffic in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2003
    Increasing prosperity and population growths in many developing countries are resulting in accelerated growth in vehicle population and vehicle kilometres travelled. In Pakistan, the number of vehicles have jumped from 0.8 million to about 4.0 million within 20 years showing an overall increase of more than 400 %.
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    Water harvesting in mountain areas of Pakistan: issues and options

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    Pakistan is situated in the arid and semiarid region of the world between 24°N and 37°N latitude and between 61°E and 77°E longitude. Average annual precipitation ranges from 2000mm in the north to 100mm in the south (PCRWR, 1994). Pakistan has two mountain ranges in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH), namely the western mountains and northern mountains.
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    Recommendations for Pakistan’s position regarding future WTO Ministerials

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    While disagreement amongst the developed nations led to the stalemate at the Seattle meeting, an alliance in the North is considered a bad phenomena for the South as social and labour issues will be pushed with unified force.
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    Pakistan’s trade and environment related interests and suggested positions to be discussed at the Geneva WTO ministerial negotiations

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    The increasing liberalization of the Multilateral Trading System along with other external factors continues to influence and shape Pakistan’s global economic position. Currently the Asian market’s ripple effects, increased imports and falling exports are the predominant trade factors.
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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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    A consumer protection initiative for Islamabad

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994
    The International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU), In collaboration with Dr Zafar Mirza of Network organised a workshop on consumer protection in March 1994 to identify consumer concerns in terms of the protection of their rights and to help initiate consumer action in Pakistan.
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    A sectoral and process oriented approach to the human rights agenda in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994
    The human rights agenda in Pakistan is presently based on the assumption that all sectors of the society requiring human rights protection, vis-a-vis their vulnerability to human rights violation, have been pre-determined and the necessary processes for their defence established. Pre-dominant in these groups and communities are women, children and religious and ethnic minorities.
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    A model for social development based on the community

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993
    In other to achieve human development, governments and international development organizations have initiated various intervention programmes to better the lives of the people, especially the poor in Pakistan and other countries. Some have been, to some degree, successful while others often suffer drawbacks.
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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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