Pakistan | The Impact Initiative

Principal Investigator:Asim Khwaja. Lead Organisation: Harvard University

Pakistan faces a serious learning crisis: despite significant progress in enrollment and educational access, learning outcomes remain vastly substandard: only 40% of rural children aged 5 to 16 can read a sentence, while less than 38% can perform simple arithmetic operations like subtraction (ASER, 2016).

Women empowerment, social norms and domestic violence

Principal Investigator: Paul Collier.

Facilitating innovative growth of low cost private schools: experimental evidence from Pakistan

Principal Investigator: Asim Ljaz Khwaja. Lead Organisation: Harvard University

Co-investigators: Jishnu Davis; Tahir Andrabi

Most interventions to improve education in developing countries require spending significant amounts of money on improving the quality of the inputs to the education system.

Strengthening schools accountability mechanisms through participation: addressing education quality and equity in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Principal Investigator: Jean-Francois Trani. Lead Organisation: Washington University in St Louis

Co-investgators: Sheretta Butler-Barnes; Nidhi Singal; Atika Pasha; Juanita Vasquez-Escallon; Parul Bakhshi; Peter Hovmand; Aminulhaq Mayel; Farah Said; Sanjeev Kumar Rai; Muhammad Tahir Waqar

A market stall holder in northern Uganda

Basic entrepreneurship: a means for transforming the economic lives of the poor?

The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. This project examines randomised evaluations of an innovative anti-poverty program which tackles capital and skills constraints at the same time in an effort to encourage occupational change among the world’s poorest women.

Female Labour Supply and the Escape from Poverty: New evidence from household data

This study utilizes household survey data from four African and Asian countries to examine in depth, and on a comparable basis, the evolving nature of female labour supply in low income countries over the past two to three decades, and to analyse the links with poverty reduction.

Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict Cities: the Role of the Urban Informal Economy

The role of the urban informal economy in poverty-reduction and peace-building in five post-conflict cities with different experiences: institutional struggles for state control, economic conflict over control of resources, social/political control and emergent governance.

Pupils attending deaf school in Sri Lanka

Learning outcomes and teacher effectiveness for children facing multiple disadvantages, including those with disabilities: India and Pakistan

The research delivers an in-depth understanding of the problems that teachers face supporting students from diverse backgrounds, the teaching practices they adopt, and the kinds of support they need to help all children fulfill their learning potential.

Stigma and discrimination associated with TB in Asia

Principal Investigators: James Nicholas Newell. Lead Organisation: University of Leeds

Co-investigators: Abu Nasar Zafar Ullah; Sushil Baral

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Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes: A study in seven countries

The research examines Amartya Sen's contention that shame is an attribute of poverty in all societies. Shame is believed to reduce a person's agency, the capacity to act constructively, and to increase social exclusion which, in turn, curtail economic development.

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