Pakistan: Recent submissions
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Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform
(IDS, 2019-03-08)Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a much higher gender gap in each province’s largest metropolitan city compared to its remaining ... -
Invisible Citizens: Why More Women in Pakistan Do Not Vote
(IDS, 2019-02-20)Why does a gender gap in voting exist in Pakistan? Our research looks beyond the creation of democratic spaces for women's participation, such as voter registration, to look instead at the constraints that women face in ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Pakistan
(IDS, 2019-02-07)This paper presents findings from a case study exploring the prospects for measuring the impacts of restricted civic space on development in Pakistan. It is part of a larger inquiry into the phenomenon of restrictions on ... -
Factors Associated with Catch‐Up Growth in Early Infancy in Rural Pakistan: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Women's Work and Nutrition Study
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018-10-21)The adverse health impacts of early infant stunting can be partially ameliorated by early catch‐up growth. Few studies have examined predictors of and barriers to catch‐up growth to identify intervention points for improving ... -
Water Management/Governance Systems in Pakistan
(IDS, 2018-11-20)This review largely focuses on government/formal water management and governance systems in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces and outlines a number of key challenges that are common across the two provinces. Challenges ... -
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Pakistan
(IDS, 2018-11-28)This rapid review examined the extent of water, sanitation and hygiene services in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab Provinces of Pakistan. It analyses the published literature on issues, solutions attempted and the impact ... -
Moving Beyond the Binary: Gender-based Activism in Pakistan
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)This article challenges the binary framework within which women in Pakistan have been viewed, by political actors, the state, and more broadly as well, as either ‘secular/feminist/godless/Westernised’ or ‘authentic/ Isl ... -
Women in Politics: Gaining Ground for Progressive Outcomes in Pakistan
(IDS, 2018-11)This paper is an analysis of findings from a study of women’s political voice in Pakistan under the A4EA Research Programme. It is based on mixed methods, drawing together archival and secondary sources, qualitative ... -
Education of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan: Enhanced Agency, Unfulfilled Aspirations
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-14)This paper examines the extent to which the capability approach captures the complexity of the lives of young women with disabilities in Pakistan, particularly in relation to their education. Focusing on their educational ... -
Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06)The contributions in this book are research-based and strive at providing a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of the education crises as well as responses to them. Among the aims of this book are also to reach ... -
Schools and Learning in Rural India and Pakistan: Who Goes Where, and How Much are they Learning?
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-09)It is increasingly recognized that there is a global learning crisis. This article investigates this learning crisis through a comparative analysis of rural India and Pakistan. Using data from each country’s Annual Status ... -
Making Local Governance Inclusive for the 'Leave No One Behind' Agenda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-08)A major aim of decentralised governance is to bring government closer to people and, in the process, deliver services in an equitable and efficient manner, in accordance with the expressed needs of citizens. The fact ... -
Helpdesk Report: The Teacher Labour Market in Pakistan
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2016-09-09)This report undertakes a rapid review of existing literature and summarises some key evidence on the teacher labour market in South Asia. It specifically focuses on salaries and conditions of teachers in the low-fee private ... -
Revenue-Maximising or Revenue-Sacrificing Government? Property Tax in Pakistan
(Routledge, 2016-05-12)The idea that states seek to maximise their revenue collection has occupied a significant place in contemporary political economy analysis of taxation, and has helped us understand the history of state formation. It is, ... -
What Does Closing Civic Space Mean for Development? A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
(IDS, 2018-07)What does closing civic space mean for development? Aid donors are concerned about the implications of restrictions on civil society for their partners and programmes, but to date there has been little clarity about what ... -
Analysing Pakistan’s Modern Dairy Value-Chain Innovation
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-06)Interventions in agri-food value chains are thought to potentially make important contributions towards enhancing agriculture’s role in nutrition. Some frameworks have begun to identify sets of requirements for pro-nutrition ... -
Energy Protests in Fragile Settings: The Unruly Politics of Provisions in Egypt, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, 2007–2017
(IDS, 2018-06)How do popular protests about the basics of everyday life, specifically about energy, come about in settings where political authority is fragmented and conflict and repression common? How do state and political actors ... -
‘Milk for Milk, Water for Water’: Analysing Pakistan’s Dairy Innovation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-01-31)Interventions in agri-food value chains are thought to potentially make important contributions towards enhancing agriculture’s role in nutrition. Some frameworks have begun to identify sets of requirements for pro-nutrition ... -
Going Against the Grain of Optimism: Flour Fortification in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-01-31)Food fortification is a popular strategy for addressing ‘hidden hunger’, and staple foods are seen as promising, if unproven, vehicles for the delivery of essential micronutrients to poor people in developing countries. ... -
Gender and Intersecting Inequalities in Local Government in South Asia
(IDS, 2018-01)This paper is an evidence review of how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The review shows that while the ...