The 2030 agenda
While 2015 marked the deadline for the millennium development goals (MDGs), the UN had already started preparing a new development agenda. At the Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development…
Global development agenda: Older persons key players
As the proportion of the older persons across the Asia-Pacific region increases exponentially, we must seek out new and innovative approaches to turn this demographic trend into an opportunity to…
A determined path to SDGs in 2030 despite COVID-19 pandemic
As lockdowns ease in countries across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear—a return to business as usual is unimaginable in a…
India’s high growth reform agenda: lessons for Pakistan
In addition to the health and human toll, the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to represent the largest economic shock that the world has experienced in decades. To provide an idea…
A new transport agenda to carry Asia and the Pacific towards sustainable development
Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda for how people and goods are moved around the region and across…
Global agenda for tackling inequality
The Great Leveler, an impressive new book by the historian Walter Scheidel, proposes that ever since foraging gave way to agriculture, high and rising inequality has been the norm in…
Global agenda for tackling inequality
The Great Leveler, an impressive new book by the historian Walter Scheidel, proposes that ever since foraging gave way to agriculture, high and rising inequality has been the norm in…
The human capital agenda
As the country gears up for the 2018 general election, it is important to examine where and how human capital development features in party manifestoes. Human capital development is being…
Framing Pakistan’s agenda at COP22
The Paris Conference ended on December 12, 2015 with the adoption of the first ever global agreement on climate change. Around 195 nations attended the conference and agreed on a…
Widening the STI net for implementation of the sustainable development agenda
Investment in science, technology and innovation (STI) needs to be the backbone of productivity-led economic recovery and sustainable development. Despite significant increases in productivity over the past few decades, economic…
