June 2008: As a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) at the George Washington University, I worked with two other graduate students to conduct an evaluation of Urban Alliance‘s High School Internship Program (HSIP).

HSIP had been operational for 12 years at the time and was aimed at helping teenagers from under-resourced parts of Washington, DC to gain work experience with the objective that this experience would help them be better prepared and better skilled when they enter the job-market and/or a higher education path.

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July 2006: This review of the literature on the growth of private sector schools in Pakistan was adapted from my Master’s thesis at the University of Oxford and published in the Journal of Independent Studies and Research.

Abstract: The education system in Pakistan is languishing in an abysmal condition. In the absence of appropriate and consistent policy, the continued depreciation of facilities and erosion of public credibility in the state system many parents are opting out of the state system and moving to the growing private sector.

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June 2006: In the run up to the Sindh government’s 2006-07 budget debate in the Sindh provincial assembly, my colleague Sumair Siraj and I (we both taught economics at SZABIST at the time) were engaged by ActionAid Pakistan to conduct a gender benefit incidence analysis of the Sindh government’s recent provincial budgets.

We produced an analysis of the Sindh government’s budgets over a four year period in June of 2006. The analysis was shared with members of the Sindh Provincial Assembly before they debated the Sindh Finance Bill 2006.