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		<title>A picture worth a million words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Indian bureaucracy rated worst in Asia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Singapore: Indian bureaucracy is the worst in Asia with a 9.21 rating out of 10, according to a report by a prestigious consulting firm based in Singapore.  India fared worst than Vietnam (rated at 8.54), Indonesia (8.37), Philippines (7.57) and China &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/indian-bureaucracy-rated-worst-in-asia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=784&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Growth In Its Place</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/putting-growth-in-its-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has to be but a means to development, not an end in itself JEAN DREZE , AMARTYA SEN Is India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/putting-growth-in-its-place/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=781&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Aid More Effective: Base it on People Power!</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/making-aid-more-effective-base-it-on-people-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of November, leaders of rich and poor countries from around the world will gather in Busan, South Korea, to discuss how they can make aid more effective. As set out in our earlier blog posts, this is &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/making-aid-more-effective-base-it-on-people-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=779&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty rate: Three years on, govt decides to redraw the line</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shahbaz Rana ISLAMABAD: As pressure mounts on the government to spill out the number of people living below the poverty line, it has finally agreed to bring a three-year drought to an end. After dragging its feet for over three &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/poverty-rate-three-years-on-govt-decides-to-redraw-the-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=775&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CGD Pakistan Report criticises U.S. over lack of aid transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report released yesterday by the Center for Global Development (CGD) has brought to light the United States’ lack of aid transparency in its activities in Pakistan. The report notes that despite widespread agreement from State Department and USAIDleaders on the benefits of transparency, very little &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/cgd-pakistan-report-criticises-u-s-over-lack-of-aid-transparency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=773&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Blair mandarin earning £4,400 A DAY in austerity Britain to advise on foreign aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: A former aide to Tony Blair was paid an ‘obscene’ £5,505 a day to advise the Government on doling out its vast foreign aid budget. However the Department for International Development (DFID) has negotiated a &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/ex-blair-mandarin-earning-4400-a-day-in-austerity-britain-to-advise-on-foreign-aid-read-more-httpwww-dailymail-co-uknewsarticle-2020409sir-michael-barber-paid-4-400-day-foreign-aid-advice-htm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=766&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL, ECONOMIC  AND  POLITICAL DYNAMICS  IN EXTREMIST AFFECTED AREAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assessing the social, political and economic impact of armed movements in affected regions and on the country as a whole has never been an easy task. It is an exercise that needs constant revision taking into account the progression in the conflict &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/social-economic-and-political-dynamics-in-extremist-affected-areas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=763&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIGHTING CORRUPTION TO IMPROVE SCHOOLING: EVIDENCE FROM A NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN IN UGANDA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the most eﬀective ways to increase primary school enrollment and student learning? We argue that innovations in governance of social services may yield the highest return since social service delivery in developing countries is often plagued by ineﬃciencies and corruption. We &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/fighting-corruption-to-improve-schooling-evidence-from-a-newspaper-campaign-in-uganda/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=761&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning climate compatible development:  lessons from experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective planning can both help make development resilient to the impacts of climate change and help policymakers identify opportunities to harness development benefits from lowering emissions. In developing countries, such planning requires the support of international finance, technology transfer and capacity building. Identifying &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/planning-climate-compatible-development-lessons-from-experience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=758&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s really happening to inequality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s evident within-country inequality is back on the radar of some of the major international organisations including UNICEF and UNDP who are leading the wider UN body but, perhaps surprisingly, also the World Economic Forum and the International Monetary Fund. &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/what%e2%80%99s-really-happening-to-inequality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=756&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign advisers raking in millions</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/foreign-advisers-raking-in-millions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Lewis: THEY&#8217;RE the Australian government officials you&#8217;ve never heard of &#8211; but most of them earn more than Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The combined salaries of a select group of AusAID-funded consultants &#8211; who offer advice to developing nations &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/foreign-advisers-raking-in-millions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=754&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aid To Pakistan: Too Much Or Too Little?</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/aid-to-pakistan-too-much-or-too-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By STEVE INSKEEP: How did people come to such wildly different conclusions about American aid to Pakistan? Some Americans seem to have concluded it&#8217;s a waste of $20 billion. Yet in Lahore, Pakistani newspaper editor Najam Sethi suggested to me &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/aid-to-pakistan-too-much-or-too-little/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=752&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bangladesh doesn&#8217;t want climate adaptation loans</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/why-bangladesh-doesnt-want-climate-adaptation-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By pushing climate loans, the UK and the World Bank are making people in poor countries pay twice for climate change – even though we played almost no part in causing the problem This week in Cape Town, the World &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/why-bangladesh-doesnt-want-climate-adaptation-loans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=750&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hazardous Child Labor</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/hazardous-child-labor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mahe Darakhshan: &#160; &#160; Children are the most beautiful and purest creation of God. Every morning we feel a special kind of joy and happiness, watching them going schools in different colorful uniforms. Unfortunately there are millions of innocent children, &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/hazardous-child-labor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=746&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights of the Economic Survey of Pakistan &#8211; 2011</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/highlights-of-the-economic-survey-of-pakistan-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy Shoaib Habib Memon: The Real GDP is estimated to grow at 2.4 percent on the back of strong performance of services sector as against actual growth of 3.8 percent last year and target of 4.5 percent. The growth in &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/highlights-of-the-economic-survey-of-pakistan-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=743&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Principal-Agent problem in governance</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-principal-agent-problem-in-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 03:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jhelum Chowdhury It is time that Indians wake up to the fact that they are quite far from enjoying real personal, economic and political freedom.  Realization is the first step to rectification. Typically a lot of care is taken &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-principal-agent-problem-in-governance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=740&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Involving the Community: A Guide to Participatory Development Communication</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/involving-the-community-a-guide-to-participatory-development-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some academics write treatises about communication in development but do not undertake ‘projects’. Most communications practitioners, on the other hand, know well the highs and lows of field implementation but do not publish. Guy Bessette, the author of this book, &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/involving-the-community-a-guide-to-participatory-development-communication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=738&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recognising a rare civilian moment in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 03:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Pakistani woman looks at a soldier standing guard near the house of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on Sunday. The bin Laden episode has brought back questions about the Pakistan Army. It is important that India does nothing that &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/recognising-a-rare-civilian-moment-in-pakistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=736&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are 1 in 3 Africans middle class?</title>
		<link>http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/are-1-in-3-africans-middle-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes says a new report from the African Development Bank which says one in three (34%) or 313m of Africa’s nearly 1bn people are now middle class (living on $2-$20/day) – a jump from 27% and about 200m in size in 2000 &#8230; <a href="http://taraqee.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/are-1-in-3-africans-middle-class/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taraqee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2329597&amp;post=733&amp;subd=taraqee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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