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Provision Responses to Devolved Service Delivery – Case Evidence from Jaranwala Tehsil

Published by: LUMS-McGill

Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Exploring Dynamic Linkages Between Germany and Pakistan

Published by: IDS

Industrial clusters and global value chains command growing interest in regional studies. Yet, there is a paucity of empirical material on how clusters are linked into global value chains, and limited research on ties between clusters in the developed and developing world.

Co-producing Citizen Security: The Citizen-Police Liaison Committee in Karachi

Published by: IDS

Beginning in 1989, the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) has become an important component of policing in Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan. Rooted in the business community, and dependent largely on private donations and on the volunteer labour of business people, it has taken on core police intelligence functions.

Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan

Co-producing citizen security : the Citizen-Political Liaison Committee in Karachi

Published by: IDS

Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan

Distinguishing the Chronically from the Transitorily Poor: Evidence from Pakistan

Published by: IDS

Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or more criteria. These are, however, often based upon measurements of key welfare indicators, such as income or consumption, in a single time period. This paper investigates whether it is possible to improve the accuracy of targeting by distinguishing between the chronically and transitorily poor on the basis of household characteristics.

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Social Networks in the Surgical Instrument Cluster of Sialkot, Pakistan

Published by: IDS

The paradox in the industrial district model is understanding how the divergent tendencies of local competition and cooperation are mediated. Social network are said to provide mechanisms that regulate inter-firm relations and facilitate the flow of knowledge within the confines of the district. Empirical evidence of this, particularly from the South, is limited.

Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan

Published by: IDS

Conventional poverty profiles and poverty status regressions are often criticised by policy makers for telling them a lot about who the poor are, but very little about what to do to combat poverty. Essentially this is because the correlates of poverty status are distinct from the dynamic processes that lead households to fall into or escape from poverty.