Pakistan, and assesses the potential to improve the system's outcomes through alternative targeting and program design. The …

added/sales taxes in four South Asian countries -- Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The paper is based largely on …

-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of …

Private schooling is an important feature of the educational landscape in Pakistan and is increasingly a topic of … and nature of private school participation at the primary and secondary levels in Pakistan. Today, one-fifth of children … -- or one-third of all students -- go to private school in Pakistan. Private school students tend to come from urban …

This paper presents results from four simulations of the impact of potential tax reforms in Pakistan on poverty, shared …

Pakistan, power shortages are commonplace, but empirical evidence on the impact of shortages is still lacking. Using a survey … productivity in Pakistan. The analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in the duration of outages on average leads to a 0 …

This paper uses unique data collected in rural Pakistan to assess the extent to which consanguinity, which is …

As many as 50 million people in Pakistan may still live without connection to the electric grid. Pakistan also has some … presents the first empirical evidence on the cost of unreliable electricity supply to households in Pakistan. The results show …