SDPI Policy Briefs

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  Policy Briefs for Sustainable Development in Pakistan 

  Institute, Sustainable Development Policy (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2017-07-27)

  Policy briefs containing succinct critique of issues and sound advice to the government and civil society on a range of issues pertaining to sustainable development have been a key feature of SDPI’s contribution to policy debate and development. The issues addressed include, but are not limited to the issues of trade, environment and social and economic development. The papers selected for the present ...

  Policy briefs containing succinct critique of issues and sound advice to the government and civil society on a range of issues pertaining to sustainable development have been a key feature of SDPI’s contribution to policy debate and development. The ...
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  Pakistan's Highly Taxed Telecom Market: Fall out and Impact 

  Yasin, Brig (Retd) Mohammad (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2017-06-05)

  The study aims to create awareness among both the public and private sectors about the importance of exploiting useful information resources, address existing difficulties in this respect, foresee future developments which might have an impact on the national economy and provide appropriate recommendations to relevant agencies.

  The study aims to create awareness among both the public and private sectors about the importance of exploiting useful information resources, address existing difficulties in this respect, foresee future developments which might have an impact on the ...
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  Poisonous Cosmetics: Regulating mercury containing skin whitening creams (SWCs) in Pakistan 

  Khwaja, Mahmood A.; Ali, S. Waqar (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2017-04-30)

  The obsession for fair skin in the subcontinent is believed to have emerged with the introduction of the cast system according to which fair complexion was considered as the domain of the upper ruling class, whereas dark complexion was associated with the lower working class. (Islam KS et al. 2006). It is also suggested that the migration of Aryans, who were much fairer than the local population, ...

  The obsession for fair skin in the subcontinent is believed to have emerged with the introduction of the cast system according to which fair complexion was considered as the domain of the upper ruling class, whereas dark complexion was associated with ...
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  Setting the Priorities: Metro Bus Vs Out-of-School Children 

  Zahid, Junaid; Chatha, Irfan Ahmed (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2016-05-15)

  The question as to what are the significant factors in shaping the road to development is of fundamental and primal importance in the present circumstances when the government is focusing more on infrastructure rather than literacy and skills transfer. On social media, there is a clear-cut division between people’s perception about Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metro Bus Project versus Education. [1] [Error! ...

  The question as to what are the significant factors in shaping the road to development is of fundamental and primal importance in the present circumstances when the government is focusing more on infrastructure rather than literacy and skills transfer. ...

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