The article explores the links between primary schooling in the community and family-building pattern in rural Pakistan using data from Punjab and Northwestern Frontier Province. Both provinces appear to be on the leading edge of the demographic transition in Pakistan: Punjab has the highest...

National in-service training systems provide occupational instruction and on-the-job training to experienced workers as well as to new labour force entrants. These systems absorb a significant share of human resource investments in developing countries. The article presents the first estimates...

According to the authors, knowing about informal risk-sharing institutions is important for understanding the determinants of the well-being of poor people in developing countries. Formal credit and insurance markets are less widespread than in developed countries, and publicly provided social...