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  Pakistan country report

  Global Development Network, 2002

  While Pakistan has realised a respectable growth rate during the last fifty years, it falls considerably behind those countries with which it was competing at the start of this process. This paper examines Pakistan’s growth experience with particular emphasis on key structural and policy factors that have shaped the country’s growth profile.
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  Devolution in Pakistan: overview of the ADB/DfID/World Bank study

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004

  Pakistan's Devolution of Power Plan was introduced in 2000, creating a decentralised structure of district and sub-district governments , each with its own Nazim and Naib Nazim (mayor and deputy mayor), elected council and administration. This report reviews the first 3 years of operation and finds uneven but encouraging progress on most fronts.
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  Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.
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  Financing of agricultural marketing: case studies from Asia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This study looks at how traders of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their activities and how they use that finance.
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  Fiscal incentives, the cost of capital and foreign direct investment in Pakistan: a neo-classical approach

  Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 2003

  This paper investigates the effects of fiscal provisions (in the form of reducing production cost via cost of capital) in Pakistan upon the rate of return and internal cash flow for investment of foreign investors.The paper finds a consistent and influencing impact of the cost of capital on FDI inflows.
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  Input credit for smallholder farmers: can the private sector help?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Many governments in sub-Saharan Africa set up systems in the seventies and eighties to supply inputs for crop production on credit to smallholder farmers. Unsustainable, expensive, and based on monopoly control over output marketing by the state, these have been swept away during liberalisation.
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  Actions speak louder than words – contraceptive services in Pakistan’s private sector

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Poor quality services are partly to blame for the low uptake of modern contraception in Pakistan. Training improves knowledge about contraception among the country’s many private practitioners. But does this translate into behaviour change? Researchers from Futures Group investigate.
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  The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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  Agricultural innovation: best left to the private sector?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The World Bank advises indebted states to divest themselves of agricultural extension services. But is there evidence that privatisation can sustainably boost production? Do private and public agricultural extension services complement each other? Does information relayed to farmers who have contact with extension services trickle down to non-contact farmers?
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  Exploring the globalisation-poverty linkage: findings from South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Does globalisation lead to higher growth rates and reduction in absolute poverty? How should economists disentangle and quantify the impact of globalisation shocks from other influences? How can we judge whether those with very little connectedness to the world economy are being affected by globalisation?

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