Broadening social protection
In my last article, ‘BISP and institutional reforms’, in these pages on September 25, I discussed some of the recently introduced institutional reforms to make BISP a merit-based and responsive…
The social democratic model
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is clearly on a mission to revive the party in Punjab, and especially in Lahore. For the first time in recent times, he tried to…
Red scare: US conservatives beat socialism drum ahead of 2020
Twenty months before Americans vote on re-electing Donald Trump, conservative supporters are already slapping many of his progressive 2020 challengers with a resurgent political taint: socialism. The word has been…
Social entrepreneurs
Pakistan one of the best performers in second global poll Zofeen Ebrahim and Elena Berton From turning organic waste into fertiliser to sharing farm equipment, new businesses seeking to address…
Social protection
Widespread under-nutrition, especially iron deficiency, determines a range of negative consequences impacting the welfare of individuals and families as well as the economic and social development of the nation. This…
HEC to fund ideas meant to resolve national progress issues
The Higher Education Commission is encouraging universities to come up with executable ideas to resolve the problems hindering national progress and all such ideas would be funded for execution, HEC…
Issues of health
In the run up to Mian Nawaz Sharif’s impending exit from the country on LHC orders, there has been a great deal of virulent criticism on social media over the…
Serious issues in current programme with IMF
Falling among a select list of countries, Pakistan has been a prolonged or frequent user of International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources. Research has indicated that such countries form a strong…
BISP and social protection
The more than ten-year old social protection scheme, Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), has survived its second transfer of power since it was launched in 2008 by the PPP government.…
HEC issues final notification to abolish two-year BA/BSc, MA/MSc
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a final direction to all the public and private universities of the country and their affiliated colleges to abolish two-year BA/BSc programme and…
