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

Working paper 30 Jan 2013 State and Political Economy

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

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Michael Callen

Associate Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Ali Hasanain

Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Saad Gulzar

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Muhammad Yasir Khan

Graduate Student, University of California - Berkeley
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