People and governance
Even as elections approach, the people’s will to demand what they need most of all appears to be largely absent. Amidst the smog that holds Lahore in a perpetual haze…
Price of electricity is price of misgovernance
In July this year, the outgoing federal cabinet approved a 25.5 per cent increase in the base electricity tariff. The decision’s impact resulted in a hike in the August bills…
Governance failure and inflation
The famed American artist, The Notorious B.I.G, exclaimed that "the more money we come across, the more problems we see".This also resonates with how the government has been managing the…
Governance for local government: Part – IV
The rules of business have to be changed accordingly. It would be imperative that the chief executive officers of metropolitan corporations and large district councils are appointed from among Grade…
Effective reforms advocated to tap potential of Islamic finance
Insisting that Islam's social protection system corresponds to the multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals and serves as an excellent tool to build resilience across social and economic spheres, experts during…
Governance for local governments: Part – I
This article is divided into three parts. The first part deals with ‘why local government?’ The second with experiences during the 2001-2009 period and finally in the third part it…
Recalibrating governance: Part IV
Pakistan faces two serious problems in education. Twenty million children are out of school and learning outcomes from existing schooling are quite weak. To resolve both these problems, governance reforms…
Governance reforms anchored in civil service reforms–II
Compensation structure Civil servants complain about commitment and performance demotivation because their compensation structure compares unfavourably with those in the private sector with similar degree of responsibility and scale and…
Recalibrating governance – Part II
The frequent takeovers by military regimes and the consequential screening of hundreds of civil servants led to the subservience of the civil service to military rulers, erosion of the authority…
Recalibrating governance: Part – I
An economy is driven by the contributions and interactions of state, society and markets. Before we take up the agenda for recalibrating governance and institutions intermediating and administering governance and…
