The paper examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth for selected Asian economies covering the period from 1981-2008. The study has been done for China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Using Granger-causality, it has been observed that for the countries like China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,...

Substantive progress has been achieved in advancing emergency response interventions during disasters including assistance of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Explicit operational technical guidelines and management strategies have been successfully applied through the "cluster approach". In 2008-09 armed conflict in several districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the Federall...

Asian countries like Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh where tobacco chewing is a common practice have a very high incidence of oral cancer, oral cancer is the most common cancer in men in India. 4 Oral cancer forms a major public health issue in India due to its rising incidence, especially in women and in younger age group. Oral cancers have multiple risk factors. 5 Smoking, tobacco/q...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to interrupt wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission worldwide. By 2006, the annual number of WPV cases had decreased by more than 99%, and only four remaining countries had never interrupted WPV transmission: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan (1). The last confirmed WPV case in India occurred in January 2011 (2), leading the World Health Organizat...

BACKGROUND In developing countries such as Pakistan, poor training of mid-level cadres of health providers, combined with unregulated availability of labour-inducing medication can carry considerable risk for mother and child during labour. Here, we describe the exposure to labour-inducing medication and its possible risks in a vulnerable population in a conflict-affected region of Pakistan. ...

Yellow mosaic disease (YMD) is one of the major diseases affecting mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek). In this study, we report the mapping of the quantitative trait locus (QTL) for mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) resistance in mungbean. An F8 recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping population was generated in Thailand from a cross between NM10-12-1 (MYMIV resistance) and KPS2 (MYMI...

BACKGROUND India and Pakistan have disputed ownership of the Kashmir Valley region for many years, resulting in several conflicts since the end of partition in 1947. Very little is known about the prevalence of violence and insecurity in this population. METHODS We undertook a two-stage cluster household survey in two districts (30 villages) of the Indian part of Kashmir to assess experiences...