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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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    A new methodological framework for measuring poverty in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    Based upon Sen's capability approach that sees poverty as the lack of multiple freedoms that individuals value and have reason to value (Alkire 2007), and the limitations of monetary approaches to measure poverty, this paper argues for adopting a framework to measure multidimensional poverty in Pakistan.
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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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    India-Pakistan trade: qualitative perceptions from stakeholders

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    The South Asian region is said to be the least integrated region in terms of economy with very low regional trade level compared to other regions in the world. Over the years, various trade accords, for instance, SAARC, SAFTA and SAPTA, had been signed by the regional countries to enhance the economic integration and boost the trade level.
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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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    Boys play cricket, girls play house: examining the gender binary in Pakistani public schools textbooks

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Pakistan has formally committed to the Education for All movement and has pledged to achieve its goals by 2015 (UNESCO, 2004). Goal 5 is the elimination of "gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015 with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality".
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    Managing diversity in Pakistan: going beyond federalism

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Many academics have pointed out that the issue of accommodating cultural diversity is associated with devolution and this can be best done within a federal framework. The federal structure in Pakistan is based on the Government of India Act 1935.
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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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    Future of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): perspectives from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    At the end of 2015 the MDGs will need a revision and we have yet to agree on refining or replacing them. Some people argue that the MDGs have not finished their work and should continue with MDGs 2nd Phase, or even just extending the deadline by a few more years.

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