Documents et rapports
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Recovering strong positive trends in poverty and opportunity (anglais)
Household survey data point to declining poverty over the past decade, despite some difficulties with data from three provinces. Indeed, Pakistan has turned economic growth into poverty reduction. In Punjab...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79572 Date du document: 19 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Newman,John Lincoln
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Enhancing labor market conditions for vulnerable groups (anglais)
For the current generation of working-age adults, public interventions to increase female employment will require policies that address the social, cultural, and security constraints facing urban and rural...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79571 Date du document: 19 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jamil,Rehan Rafay,Mete,Cem
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Revitalizing manufacturing (anglais)
On a trend decline since 1960, Pakistan's economic growth is highly dependent on financial inflows of aid and worker's remittances. Manufacturing has great potential, though, based on a growing labor force...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79569 Date du document: 19 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biller,S. A. Dan,Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto
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Increasing agricultural productivity (anglais)
Agriculture remains a socioeconomically and politically important sector in Pakistan, even as its share in the overall economy continues to fall. Sluggish growth in productivity has constrained farm income...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79570 Date du document: 19 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahmed, S. Amer,Gautam,Madhur
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Rethinking development policy choices : contributions to the emerging agenda (anglais)
In recent years, the World Bank has had the honor and privilege of welcoming incoming administrations with a series of diagnostics studies and policy recommendations. Building on this tradition, the Bank...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79556 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basim,Uzma,Ben Messaoud,Rachid,Cholst,Anthony,Lopez Calix,Jose Roberto
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Reforming state-owned enterprises (anglais)
State-owned enterprises are a sizable element in Pakistan's economic landscape- more than 100 of them operate in a wide range of economic sectors, contributing around 10 percent of gross domestic product...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79568 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aftab,Sarwat,Shaikh,Sarmad Ahmed
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Improving financial management (anglais)
This note outlines Pakistan's challenges in public financial management and suggests recommendations for meeting them. The legal and institutional framework for public financial management is well structured...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79581 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Mobilizing revenue (anglais)
This note reviews key shortcomings in Pakistan's revenue mobilization system and provides directions for revitalizing it and raising collection by 3-4 percentage points of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79583 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez Calix,Jose Roberto,Touqeer,Irum
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Enhancing the business environment (anglais)
For developing countries like Pakistan, where small and medium-size enterprises make up a large share of the economy, the quality of the business environment is a critical policy area for governments to...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79560 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aftab,Sarwat,Safavian,Mehnaz S.,Shaikh,Sarmad Ahmed
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Expanding access to quality education (anglais)
Although Pakistan has made some progress in improving access to education over the past decade, it still faces major challenges in providing access to quality education at all levels. It has the world's...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79573 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dundar,Halil,Waheed,Huma Ali
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Revamping governance (anglais)
Pakistan faces serious governance challenges that affect the state's ability to deliver services to its citizens. These challenges are a combination of weaknesses in the state's effectiveness, efficiency...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79580 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Idris,Iffat,Rana,Naseer Ahmad,Touqeer,Irum
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Consolidating social protection (anglais)
Pakistan has taken steps to deliver social protection services, including unanimously passing the Benazir income support programme act in 2010, and setting up systems for targeted cash transfers to the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79578 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Malik,Iftikhar,Pop,Lucian Bucur
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Reinvigorating the agenda for open trade (anglais)
Pakistan's trade performance is disappointing. Despite being in a very dynamic region, the country's position in world trade has barely changed over the past three decades. The trade to gross domestic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79559 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reis,Jose Guilherme,Taglioni,Daria,Kunaka,Charles,Pitigala,Upali Nihal
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Managing natural disasters (anglais)
Pakistan is prone to geological and hydro meteorological hazard events-earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones. Combined with rapid population growth, urbanization, environmental degradation, and a high...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79579 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Forni,Marc S.,Khan,Haris
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Building an efficient energy sector (anglais)
Pakistan's energy sector is facing a serious crisis. Key challenges include large and growing shortages of energy, high energy costs, and inefficiencies that prevent the sector from financing all its costs...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79558 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aziz,Rashid
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Expanding quality health, population, and nutrition services (anglais)
Pakistan's health and nutrition outcomes and service coverage lag behind those in most other South Asian countries, despite slowly improving over the past decade. Key issues include persistent inequities...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79567 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haq,Inaam Ul,Kazi,Shahnaz,Kostermans,Cornelis P.,Laviolette,Luc
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Promoting efficient service delivery with decentralization (anglais)
Over the last few years, Pakistan's intra government relations have undergone major changes. While they have created many opportunities for improving service delivery, they have also created serious risks...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79582 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mukhtar,Hanid