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    Social accountability of women in Pakistan: a case study of Sialkot

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Social Accountability as a mean of holding the state accountable to its citizens is not usually practiced in Pakistan. One of the prerequisites of Social Accountability is the right to information. The second major hindrance in the way of social accountability is the capacity and capability of citizens as how much they have empowered themselves to fight for their rights.
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    Challenges to social accountability and service delivery in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Social accountability relates to community-based initiatives intended to improve transparency and access to information by holding the state and its agents accountable. The effectiveness of social accountability tools is highly dependent on the way in which they are initiated and exercised. The study highlights the major challenges to social accountability in Pakistan.
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    Energy and tax reforms: household analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Energy and tax reforms: firm-level analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Causes and implications of induced abortion in Pakistan: a social and economic analysis

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    Nearly 88% of pregnancies that were ended using an induced abortion were terminated due to unmet need for family planning or contraceptive failure. A majority of abortions were induced in hospitals, private as well as government, and folk methods accounted for a small fraction (1.5%) of all induced abortions. The rate of post‐abortion complications (PAC) is high at over 30 per cent.
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    Reproductive health knowledge and perceptions: a rapid assessment in four villages in Sindh

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2014
    Indus Resource Center (IRC) is scaling up its project “Reproductive Health through Girls’ Education”, now revised as “Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Girls through Life Skills Based Education”.
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    Karachi’s Violence: Duality and Negotiation

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2011
    Karachi has historically been the locus of opportunity for the rest of the country, but its position within Sindh sharpens the economic dualism between urban and rural areas, agriculture and industry, and the two major ethnic groups of Sindh.
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    The criminal justice system and rape: an attitudinal study of the public sector response to rape in Karachi

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    In the year 2011, the Capital City Police reported that 103 cases of rape and sexual assault were reported across Karachi. However, in community meetings held across Karachi in all 18 towns of the city, participants knew of over 50 cases that had never been reported to the police. The exact frequency of cases is impossible to establish.
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    Social inequality and environmental threats in Indus Delta villages: Pakistan

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    Protection of environmental and climate change migrants or refugees and the debate on the legal framework of refugees’ rehabilitation is a matter of major concern for international humanitarian as well as development oriented organizations.
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    Fighting corruption in South Asia: building accountability

    Transparency International, 2014
    Hardly a speech is delivered in South Asia without mention of the need to fight corruption in the region. Yet despite the lofty promises, corruption is on the rise. This report shows how a serious lack of political will on the part of governments to make laws work, means that government action to fight corruption is largely ineffective.

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