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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
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    Transnational networks: recognising a regional reality

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
    This paper highlights the importance of transnational migratory networks in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Current trends in policy making on migration tend to focus on repatriation of Afghans from neighbouring countries.
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    Afghans in Quetta: settlements, livelihoods, support networks and cross-border linkages

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    Huge numbers of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have returned to Afghanistan, yet an almost equal number has remained, despite an often hostile government response. Why is this? This paper shows how livelihoods analysis can shed light on push and pull factors in people’s decision making about whether to stay or return.
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    Putting people at the centre of informal settlement upgrading in Pakistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has transformed sewage systems in low income, informal settlements (‘katchi abadi’), where 60 percent of Karachi’s population lives. OPP has challenged development approaches, which are very technical and overly-dependent on government and donor support. Such approaches treat poor communities as objects, rather than drivers, of development.
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    To return or to remain: the dilemma of second-generation Afghans in Pakistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
    What is known about second-generation Afghans living in Pakistan? What can be understood regarding the push and pull factors that influence their decision to stay where they have spent more than half their lives, or return to the place where their parents were born?
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    Assessing emergency medical care in low income countries: a pilot study from Pakistan

    2008
    Emergency medical care is an important component of effective health care systems. Unfortunately it is often overlooked in low-income countries, where the health care systems have not traditionally focused on emergency care. However, the need is often greatest in such countries, where injury rates are higher and fewer injury control activities are undertaken.
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    Incidence, patterns and severity of reported unintentional injuries in Pakistan for persons five years and older: results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan 1990 to 1994

    BMC Public Health, 2007
    This article from BMC Public Health journal estimates the annual incidence, patterns and severity of unintentional injuries among people aged over five in Pakistan. Unintentional injuries are the main cause of injury deaths worldwide, with more than two-thirds of injuries occurring in developing countries.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    New case study from Pakistan: milk production and marketing by small and medium scale contract farmers

    Regoverning Markets Programme, 2006
    This study examines the case of Pakistan’s Haleeb Foods Ltd. (HFL) a milk processing and marketing company that purchases its raw milk from small and medium scale producers. It aims to generate policy-relevant research and to identify HFL’s innovative marketing practices using qualitative research techniques.

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