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Better budgets: improving resource allocation in Pakistan's health sector
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How can scarce healthcare resources be allocated more efficiently and equitably in low-income countries? Researchers from the UK Nuffield Institute for Health, Pakistan's University of Balochistan and the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, conducted the first costing studies in primary facilities and district hospitals in Balochistan province, Pakistan.DocumentGood governance or bad management
Focus on the Global South, 2002This book presents a number of chapters by individual authors which give a damning indictment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) policy and processes.Central to the books argument is that whilst precepts of good governance should imply publicly accountable systems of rights, entitlements, laws, rules, distribution and use of resources and decision making based on universal principles of equaliDocumentThe Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.DocumentSources of growth in South Asian economies
Global Development Network, 2000This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.DocumentSavings, investment and growth in South Asia
South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000Report of a study analysing the performance of the South Asian countries regarding savings and investment rates in comparison with East Asia.Econometric analysis shows that the main factors behind the lower rates of savings in South Asia are:a less rapid decline in the age dependency ratio (which has remained virtually stagnant in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh), while falling dramatDocumentPakistan economy: external sector crisis
Institute of Policy Studies, Pakistan, 1997This paper though written to address problems posed to the former Nawaz Sharif government [Feb. 1997-Oct. 1999], is still relevant because the external sector crisis that had then gripped the country, has not gone away.DocumentImpact of globalization and liberalization on growth, employment and poverty: a case study of Pakistan
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001This paper examines how globalization and liberalization effect economic growth, employment and poverty in Pakistan.Pages
