Customers versus clients
WHILE service delivery in Pakistan has rarely been carried out with the explicit intention of pro-poor redistribution, no domain exemplifies this trend more than urban development. If, periodically, there is…
The electoral gender gap
Gender gap indicators are useful in quantifying the level of exclusion faced by women. One such indicator, and a very crucial one, is the level of exclusion in the ownership…
An equal education
Education, as we know, is the single most critical path to socioeconomic mobility. In instrumental terms, a robust education system is not just a pathway for greater socioeconomic mobility at…
The poverty puzzle
The good news is Pakistan has seen an exceptional decline in poverty - falling from 35 per cent in 2001 to less than 10 per cent by 2013-14. Moreover, these…
Civil society’s failures
Economists know about what they call ‘market failure’ as well as ‘government failure’ in a situation where neither institution as a whole, for a number of well-recognised reasons, has been…
