Policy formulation in isolation
ARTICLE (July 31 2006): Increasing concerns about the trade deficit and the rapid pace of credit expansion since 2003 have captured public attention. To get a better handle on these…
Towards industrial policy 2.0: Part – I
Recent developments in the Western countries have reopened the discourse on the need for an industrial policy. Pakistan, which has gone through deindustrialization in the last few decades, has to…
A chronic state of policy errors
Pakistanis are living in an era of shocking price hikes, staggering inequality, volatile markets and oligarchic politics. The country faces intractable inefficiencies in almost all sectors including energy, agriculture, finance,…
National security policy
A nation’s national security policy (NSP) is a national vade mecum or ‘grand national strategy’ which helps draft various sectoral strategies or policies which lead to operational strategies and action…
Blue Economy and need for aligning maritime policy
The seas envelop approximately 71% of the planet’s surface, and have shaped the human civilization since millennia. Presently, about 60% of global population lives in littorals. Seas hold vast reserves…
Values and policy decisions
Public policy environments will invariably include some contentious policy decisions. These decisions will often involve implicit value judgements about what is important and what is not. In debating contentious policy,…
Words matter in foreign policy
FOREIGN policy is serious business and rightly described as a country’s first line of defence. Policy formulation and policy articulation both require careful thought and judgement. How policy is publicly…
Innovative policy design
In any contemporary complex policy landscape, it is practically impossible to devise that singular ‘silver bullet’ policy that will then go on to address all major public issues quickly and…
Biden’s foreign policy agenda
In less than three weeks since the inauguration, President Biden has moved fast to articulate the broad contours of his administration’s foreign policy agenda. In choosing the US Department of…
Region in flux; policy responses
PRESIDENT Joe Biden’s review will lead to a number of foreign policy changes in this region with the US seeking to try and reinstate the nuclear deal with Iran, an…
