SDPI Policy Briefs

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  Preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Study of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Northern Route Road Construction Activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan 

  Khwaja, Mahmood A.; Saeed, Sumbul; Urooj, Maham (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2018-01-18)

  Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlines was the first airline in the world to operate a service to and from China. China has steadily appeared as Pakistan’s largest trading partner (Holtom et al. 2013). The Pak-China relationship has grown ...

  Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlines was the first airline in the world to operate a ...
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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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