Public administration and decisions
Policymaking is an important and consequential public activity that needs to be in the limelight – and it often is. An allied public activity, also of much importance but in…
Policymaking is an important and consequential public activity that needs to be in the limelight – and it often is. An allied public activity, also of much importance but in…
ecent events reminded me of Murphy’s Law (coined in 1949 by Edward A. Murphy, an officer in the US Air Force) which states that, if anything can go wrong, it…
The federal and provincial budgets for 2025-26 have generally been approved by the respective legislative fora. Therefore, it is possible to get an overall perspective of the likely outlook for…
Effective governance is a key factor for establishing public trust for any political democratic dispensation and governments ensure it through effective delivery systems. In Pakistan, we have witnessed erosion of…
The usual jargon was issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on 27, Sunday, after an inconclusive emergent meeting was called in the aftermath of violent street protests in several cities…
Late Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, in his famous poem 'stone' said: "there is a stone of the statute of justice too, but that can be carved only with the axe of…
Republicans are more pessimistic about the country’s direction than at almost any other time during Donald Trump’s presidency, as a trio of crises - the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn…
The Trump administration plans to soon scrap a 2013 agreement between US and Chinese auditing authorities, a senior State Department official said, a move that could foreshadow a broader crackdown…
Debt dynamics requires continued primary budget surpluses to be generated for gradually lowering the burden of interest payments and reducing public debt-GDP ratio. Revenue mobilisation of an additional 1.5 percent…
Several commentators have argued that the problem of fiscal deficit in Pakistan lies in its profligate public expenditure and unless this expenditure is drastically reduced a healthy fiscal balance is…