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Need for institutional reforms

Pakistan’s economy has started showing positive signs of recovery and resilience after years of grappling with inflationary pressures, fiscal imbalances, and external debt challenges. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)…

Sustainability, institutional reform, and stimulus

What causes macroeconomic instability? Main determinants that come to mind are elevated levels of inflation, fiscal deficit (FD), current account deficit (CAD), and debt burden. Moreover, what brings sustainable macroeconomic…

Need for institutional reforms

Pakistan’s economy has started showing positive signs of recovery and resilience after years of grappling with inflationary pressures, fiscal imbalances, and external debt challenges. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)…

Institutions as battleground

THE ongoing political confrontation between the government and opposition has assumed a new, more dangerous nature. It is now pitting state institutions against each other, bringing some into disrepute while…

Clash of institutions

THERE seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel as the deadlock between a defiant parliament and a beleaguered chief justice continues to endanger the entire edifice.…

Institutional police response

IN the past year, there has been a record spike in attacks by the TTP and Baloch separatists on Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies. Over this period, more than 100 policemen were…

Local governments

SPEAKING to the First Constituent Assembly in 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah outlined several duties for the government of Pakistan: maintain law and order, root out corruption, act against black…

Local government: a reality check

LOCAL government is being talked about as one of the possible ‘solutions’ to the heightened political and economic turbulence in the country. LG is attractive in theory, promising better service…