A team of scholars from each country has undertaken the assessment on a non-partisan basis. Participating scholars have taken into consideration all the available studies by other scholars of various ideological and theoretical persuasions. Therefore, the initial task of each assessor was to identify the body of literature available on the given subject. Having reviewed this literature, the assessors, then answer the specific questions raised by the Qualitative Assessment framework. This response of the assessor, however, can take the form of a narrative. In other words, the assessment need not be in terms of questions and answers. Each such essay would ideally, have a bibliography. Draft of the assessment essays are peer-reviewed by experts and the authors were requested to take into account the comments of the group while revising the assessment essay.