On the 14th of March 2023, InfraZamin Pakistan hosted the country’s first-ever summit on infrastructure titled “Building for Impact” in Karachi, featuring international speakers and representatives from numerous public and…
Infrastructure development is critical for sustainable growth and development and enhanced productivity and competitiveness. Pakistan has made significant progress in structuring and implementing infrastructure projects, but there are still deficits…
The world’s development banks could play a major role in protecting nature, but are largely ignoring biodiversity in a climate-led financing push, environmentalists warn, calling for action to fix the…
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has alarmingly increased in recent years, predominantly due to climate change. Both developed and developing countries have been impacted alike. However, research that…
In Pakistan, there are about 23 million children that are out of school, and 22 million children are enrolled in low-quality government schools. The country’s National Human Development Report (NHDR)…
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expressed concerns over the government of Pakistan’s payment schedules of around Rs300 billion to the Chinese power producers operating in the country.…
TURMOIL and mayhem need not be an essential fallout of the present political transition. Earlier, during a similarly complex crisis, two exiled political leaders in 2006 had agreed on the…
Pakistan currently faces one of its episodic, demand-induced, BoP impasses, which usually end in growth containment, or contraction. In varied assessments for this decades long "glass-ceiling" to growth, what has…
Prime Minister Imran Khan has inaugurated the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project (RRUDP) in Lahore the other day. This is the third time the project or its earlier avatars during…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The latter covered the period 2000 to 2015 while the former are…
