Do foreign funded aid programmes encourage women to increase their political participation?
This alternative conception of enhancing representation is encouraging for a young democracy like Pakistan.
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Syeda ShahBano Ijaz is a doctoral student in political science at University of California at San Diego. She holds an M.A. in politics from New York University and an M.Sc. in development economics from University of Oxford. Her current research uses survey experiments to develop an alternative understanding of governance in the shadow of foreign aid. She can be reached at ssijaz@ucsd.edu
