Society for Promoting Education among Disadvantaged Groups (SPEDG) has always been active in conducting self funded as well as donor funded surveys on different social issues. Pakistan is one of the unfortunate countries where different family planning programs have been failed and which has resulted in the creation of various demographic problems for the country. This study attempts to measure the impacts of family planning programs,on fertility level in Pakistan. By using a cross sectional data of ever married women age from 15-49 throughout the country from a SPEDG sponsored survey, this...

Darfur is a vast region endowed with limited and unexplored natural resources, poor infrastructure, and lack of major development projects, and identifying its economic and human development needs brings us closer to finding ways to alleviate its human suffering and environmental stress. This book presents a broad spectrum of analytical perspectives from prominent academics, professionals, and practitioners from Darfur itself, adhering to the principles of scientific inquiry with intellectual rigor and objectivity in order to form a collective thesis on the political economy of Darfur.

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