Fixing the governance web
PAKISTAN’S governance structure is often at the centre of national debate. From questions of provincial autonomy to disaster management, and now, calls to redraw the country’s internal boundaries, each of…
Governance in ESG context
The Global Risks Perception Survey 2022-2023 (GRSP) administered by the World Economic Forum captured the top 10 risks in the two-to-five-year landscape. With regards to environmental risks, the GRPS’s results…
Foreign journalists face uncertain future under Trump
When US President Donald Trump berated an Australian reporter for asking an unpleasant question, his colleagues took that as a warning. With the administration planning to slash correspondent visas and…
Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years
Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that its deadly pattern of attacking reporters and newsrooms on the…
Mission-oriented governance
‘The Federalist Papers are published following the Constitutional Convention. …The papers, particularly those written by [Alexander] Hamilton, recognize that the state creates economic conditions; it does not merely react to…
Good governance remains elusive
There is a widespread perception that in Pakistan there are a plethora of very well researched papers but gathering dust in government offices, penned by sector experts (domestic and international)…
Resetting economic governance
We have lost count of experiments conducted to resolve challenges confronted by our economy. However, except interludes of relative stability, the economy has kept faltering with breathing space provided by…
