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    From humanitarian and post-conflict assistance to health system strengthening in fragile states: Clarifying the transition and the role of NGOs

    Health Systems 20/20, 2008
    This policy brief focuses on the transition from emergency assistance and relief to strengthening the health system for the long term, and the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and how they can help fragile states to rehabilitate their health systems. There is general agreement on the broad features of state fragility, but as a category it contains significant variation.
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    Social accountabilty initatives in health and nutrition: lessons from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population and is a region of dynamic economic growth, yet it performs relatively poorly on health and nutrition indicators.
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    An assessment of technical assistance provision to the Pakistan health sector

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This report covers a range of issues concerned with the procurement and management of technical assistance for the health sector in Pakistan.
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    Pesticide policy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    In Pakistan, the aggressive media campaigns by pesticide companies do not comply with FAO guidelines for advertising pesticides though the country adopts the guidelines. Also, Pakistan law does not clearly outline the guidelines for advertising pesticides. The law only prescribes that it is a punishable offence for anyone to falsely represent a pesticide in an advertisement.
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    Structural Adjustment and Health in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    Government health expenditures as a percentage of GDP have declined in Pakistan, though not in absolute real terms, over the structural adjustment period. Progress over this period is evident on a number of health indicators. However, Pakistan still lags far behind the means of low income countries and South Asian countries in all child survival statistics.
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    Ban on non-biodegradable chemicals

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2004
    Detergents are made from Branched Alkyl Benzene Sulphonic acid (BAB/ABS, brand name Conco AAS) and Linear Alky Benzene Sulphonic acid (LAB/LAS, brand name Santomerse). These chemicals have a high production volume and more than 1,000,000 pounds are produced annually.
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    Resource mobilization for Pakistan’s healthcare: myth or reality?

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2005
    Pakistan is undergoing both epidemiological and demographic transitions, where age structures are changing and threats of communicable and non-communicable diseases are growing. These challenges require that alternative financing mechanisms for health care should be explored to face new situations and changing demands.
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    Non-competitive behaviour: case studies from the cement and pharmaceutical sectors

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    Evidence suggests that undue industrial concentration and unreasonable monopoly power have remained a major problem in the history of growth of Pakistan’s corporate sector. Cement, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, sugar and vegetable ghee are some of the sectors where restrictive trade practices have been witnessed quite frequently.
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    Structural adjustment and social development: an agenda for the poor

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are not simple instruments for rectifying macroeconomic imbalances through the imposition of policies like currency devaluation, privatisation, trade liberalisation and cuts in government spending.
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    Study of mercury levels of air in and around dental clinics, light products manufacturing plants and mercury-chlor-alkali plant in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    According to a preliminary report on mercury inventory, published in 2000, the point sources of mercury releases and emissions in Pakistan are a chlor-alkali plant, light products manufacturing units, dental clinics, incinerators and other coal based primary or secondary unit operations.

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