Data-driven decisions
Data-driven decision-making has increasingly gained more value over the past years, primarily because of the proliferation of ICT-based technologies and services, which has make it convenient to collect large and…
Data-driven decision-making has increasingly gained more value over the past years, primarily because of the proliferation of ICT-based technologies and services, which has make it convenient to collect large and…
Good nutrition has been recognised both as a basic ingredient and as an outcome of human development globally. As food and nutrition are important factors in human development, they are…
It is a well-established fact that education, literacy and other indicators of women’s empowerment are strongly related to the improved nutrition status of their children. According to national surveys, child…
The Federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) has been set at Rs 1001 billion for 2017-18. This represents a 'big push', with a 40 percent growth over the development spending…
“Just between you and me,” wrote Lawrence Summers, the then chief economist of the World Bank, in an internal memorandum that got leaked in 1991, “shouldn’t the World Bank be…
Out of the 40 million victims of modern slavery worldwide, almost two-thirds – 25 million people – are exploited in Asia and the Pacific, making the region host to the…
For nations to progress in the 21st century and become part of the fourth industrial revolution, they need to link their development policies to the central theme of establishing a…
According to the National Nutrition Survey 2011, more than half of Pakistan’s women and two-thirds of its children suffer micronutrient deficiency. The widespread deficiency of vitamins A and D, zinc,…
Last week, I noticed newspaper headlines about the rate at which newborn children die in Pakistan. The figures being cited were astonishing even for me. Having worked for the Alif…
Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first millennium development goal (MDG) agreed by all the member states of the UN in 1990 with a target to halve the…