This study examined whether psychosocial stimulation, parental distress, and enrollment in pre- primary education had different associations with early child development outcomes for boys and girls in...
This note proposes the dissemination plan for the Pakistan Human Capital Review (HCR), an extended core ASA. The Pakistan HCR, one of the first worldwide, aims to provide a wide-ranging assessment of the...
The objectives of the report are with the World Bank in collaboration, IFC will provide support to the KP Health Foundation to strengthen their HCWM engagement with the private sector through outsourcing/PPPs;...
This second chapter looks at nutrition with a focus on Sindh, but the analysis was severely hindered by the lack of credible and consistent data. With this limitation in mind, it finds that nutrition outcomes...
This paper aims to analyze how policy makers can make the existing dollar go further toward improving human capital outcomes, of learning and nutrition, by improving spending efficiency. This study is...
This first chapter considers education with a focus on learning. Education, enrollment and learning outcomes in particular, in Pakistan is lagging peers across income groups and regions in recent years...
The available spaces for women to participate or express freedoms has been limited due to division in public and private spaces with women being confined to the latter. Women’s participation in the labor...
This paper analyzes the risks to child development and school readiness among children under age 6 in Pakistan. Drawing on a nationally representative telephone survey conducted between December 2021 and...
Pakistan has one of the highest out-of-school children in the world, with an estimated 20.3 million of its 63.3 million school-age children are out of school. In addition, Pakistan’s learning poverty rate...
This note assesses the effects of the 2022 floods on human capital in Pakistan. It focuses on the results of a Pakistan-wide phone survey that gathered information on the experiences of approximately 4,000...
Investments in human capital and labor market outcomes are self-reinforcing. Boosting human capital improves labor market outcomes, and thus household incomes. For example, an additional year of school...