Syed Ali Hasanain

Content by Syed Ali Hasanain

• Publication - Working Paper

  Crowdsourcing government accountability: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

  5 Nov 2015 | Arman Rezaee, Syed Ali Hasanain, Yasir Khan

  
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• Project

  Coordinating farmers with cellphones: Technology innovation in livestock extension in Pakistan

  Summary Livestock agriculture accounts for twelve percent of GDP in Pakistan, and is a key growth sector for the rural poor, as in much of South Asia. However, the market for livestock faces many of the same imperfections in developing countries as do land or crop markets. We implemented in partnership with the Punjab Livestock and Dairy Department a data-driven, state...

  4 Sep 2015 | Syed Ali Hasanain, Arman Rezaee, Yasir Khan

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  Development of Punjab Growth Strategy 2018

  Punjab has been suffering from low rates of economic growth for the past few years The province needs to grow rapidly to provide enough jobs for its increasing labour force The Chief Minister asked the IGC to help develop a growth strategy for the province The strategy has now been adopted by the Government as its official Growth...

  19 Jan 2015 | Ijaz Nabi, Naved Hamid, Ali Cheema, Syed Turab Hussain, Syed Ali Hasanain, Azam Chaudhry, Nazish Afraz, Anjum Nasim, Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Zeba Sathar, Sohaib Athar, Hina Shaikh

• Multimedia Item - Video

  Growth Week 2014: Country Session - Pakistan

  6 Oct 2014

• Project

  Employee personalities and public sector performance

  Absenteeism and low productivity among government employees in developing countries is notoriously high Doctors in some regions of Pakistan are absent up to 68% of the time Appointing staff identified via personality tests could improve productivity in a cost effective way Governments are the primary provider of services for the poor in developing...

  4 Sep 2014 | Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Yasir Khan, Syed Ali Hasanain

• Publication - Working Paper

  The Political Economy of Health Worker Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan (Working Paper)

  30 Jan 2013 | Michael Callen, Syed Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Yasir Khan

  
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• Publication - Policy Brief

  Bureaucratic Underperformance and Patronage: Evidence from Pakistan (Policy Brief)

  1 Jan 2013 | Michael Callen, Eli Berman, Syed Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Yasir Khan

  
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  Monitoring the Monitors: Using ICT to improve government monitoring in Punjab, Pakistan

  In many developing countries, accurate data on resource utilization in public schools, hospitals, and other service facilities are rarely available. This creates two parallel sets of problems: First, a lack of data for process evaluation can lead to misallocations in medicine, human and other service delivery resources. Second, information bottlenecks between service...

  1 Mar 2012 | Michael Callen, Syed Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Yasir Khan