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Using economic policy to improve environmental protection in Pakistan / Faruqee, Rashid
The author studies Pakistan's major environmental problems, both green and brown, and assesses the extent to which economic policies affect incentives to protect the environment. Experience in other countries shows that nondistortionary economic policies that promote economic growth by improving the allocation of resources also create appropriate i [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 23p., Bibliogr.
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Pakistan's Agriculture Sector. Is 3 to 4 Percent Annual Growth Sustainable? / Faruqee, Rashid
A key source of the impressive growth in Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the agriculture sector, which grew about 3.6 percent a year for 25 years. The author analyzes whether such a growth rate is sustainable. In different periods, growth has come from different sources: from a seed, fertilizer, and irrigation packages in the 1960' [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 35p.
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Pakistan's Public Agricultural Enterprises: inefficiencies, market distortions, and proposals for reform / Faruqee, Rashid
Agricultural public enterprises in Pakistan, like their counterparts in most developing countries, share common problems of economic, financial, and managerial inefficiency. Subsidies that never reach intended beneficiaries and cause inefficient allocation of resources, pricing regulations that benefit undeserving segments of the population, and re [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 62p., Bibliogr.
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Strategic reform for agricultural growth in Pakistan / Faruquee, Rashid
"Future prospects for the agricultural sector in Pakistan depend on its ability to increase output and income of producers."Agriculture remains the backbone of the Pakistani economy, employing more than half the labor force and accounting for 70 per cent of export revenues. However, agriculture faces two sets of constraints in Pakistan: resource co [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 152p.
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Saline agriculture for irrigated land on Pakistan: a handbook / QUIRESHI, R.H./BARRETT-LENNARD, E.G.
ACIAR; 1998 - 142p., Index
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Government's Role in Pakistan Agriculture: major reforms are needed / Faruquee, Rashid
Government involvement in Pakistan's agriculture sector has benefited farmers little, contends the author. He recommends reform of agricultural policies and institutions. For one thing, government policy has severely distorted agricultural incentives -- directly, through agricultural pricing policy, and indirectly until recently, through exchange r [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 35p., bibliogr.
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Regulating Industrial Wastewater in Kenya: Towards and Appropriate Institutional Arrangement / ONJALA, Joseph
Centre for Development Research; 2002 - 31p; Ref.
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Issues of efficiency and interdependence in water resource investments: Lessons from the Indus Basin of Pakistan / Duloy, John H.
This paper reports the results from some experiments utilizing models of the irrigated agriculture of the Indus Basin of Pakistan. The models are unique in that they integrate agricultural production with a surface water distribution system and a groundwater aquifer system for a large river basin. Each of the models incorporates a special case of t [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 130p.
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Managing price risk in the Pakistan wheat market / Faruqee, Richard
The government intervenes in the wheat market in Pakistan to ensure food security for consumers and to provide adequate and stable incomes for producers. The cost of this intervention is high, and its impact on the performance of agriculture has been significantly negative. The World Bank is urging policy changes such as removing agricultural trade [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 63p.
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The little green data book / The World Bank
The Little Green Data Book 2004 is based on the World Development Indicators 2004, and represents a succinct collection of information. It is a collaboration between the Development Economics Data Development Group, and the Environment Department of the World Bank. Under the headings of agriculture, forests, biodiversity, energy, emissions and poll [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 239p
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Municipal waste water treatment in Central and Eastern Europe: present situation and cost-effective development strategies / Somlyody, Laszlo
The current state of water supply and sewerage in urban areas in Central and Eastern Europe is generally adequate, but wastewater treatment is substantially less developed. This report presents an evaluation of municipal wastewater treatment in five countries in the region, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Rep [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 145p.
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Biotechnology and developing country agriculture maize in Thailand / Setboonsarng, Suthad
Maize is a relatively new crop in Thailand, but since commercial production began in the 1950s it has become the second most important crop in terms of planted area and one of the country's top four agricultural exports. Major changes are occurring in the maize market in Thailand. On the supply side, increased production through land expansion will [...]
OECD; 1990 - 77p.
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Human capital accumulation in post-green revolution, Pakistan: some preliminary results / SABOT, Richard H.
IFPRI,; 1989 - 33p., Ref.
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Research on land markets in South Asia: what have we learned? / Faruqee, Rashid
The authors review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved issues. They report that: (1) We have a good understanding of why sharecropping persists and why it can be superior to other standard agricultural contracts. We have less understanding of what determines the relative efficiency of sha [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 19p.
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Effects of exchange rate and trade policies on agriculture in Pakistan / Dorosh , Paul
IFPRI; 1990 - 114p., Bibliogr.
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An integrated approach to waste water management / Marino, Manuel
The report provides a general approach to deciding the "where, when, and how much" in developing and implementing wastewater management interventions. Its scope covers two main considerations: 1) the need to incorporate the general principles that determine water resources management policies into the design and selection of wastewater management a [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 46p.
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Groundwater markets in Pakistan: participation and productivity / MEINZEN-DICK, Ruth
IFPRI; 1996 - 76p., Bibliogr.
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Monitoring Environmental Progress: A Report on Work in Progress / World Bank
There are important gaps in our understanding of the facets of environmentally sustainable development, but there are also areas in which data collection could be streamlined. Finding the right balance will require more attention to the gray areas of the subject. This publication is a first step toward finding that balance [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 82p.
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Sources of fertility decline: Factor analysis of inter-country data / Faruqee, Rashid
In recent times, a number of developing countries have experienced a decline in fertility making it possible to study the factors inducing such decline. This subject constitutes the core of a continuing debate between those who advocate intensive family planning programs irrespective of the level of socio-economic development and those who support [...]
World Bank; 1978 - 46p.
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Pakistan : Ethno-politics and contending elites / Rashid, Abbas
UNRISD; 1993 - 36p., Bibliogr.
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