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An Unequal World

An unequal world

The world is becoming increasingly unequal despite all the theoretical paradigms that advocated various mechanisms to bridge this widening gap of inequality by balancing the income levels of the rich…

A System In Crisis

A system in crisis

Around the world, education systems are in crisis. Progress has been made to increase access to at least a basic education over the past several decades, but not nearly fast…

The 2030 Agenda

The 2030 agenda

While 2015 marked the deadline for the millennium development goals (MDGs), the UN had already started preparing a new development agenda. At the Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development…

17 goals to transform the world

They key to success for transforming our country is to follow the UN development goals as our indigenous development agenda On September 25, the 193 members of UN General Assembly…

Sustainable Development

Sustainable development

Asia and the Pacific are recognised for their leadership in global output, trade and development. The region has a new opportunity to lead on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…

A Trend-setting National Legislature

A trend-setting national legislature

In the past it was often alleged that Pakistan's Parliament has rarely shaped a trend of reforms and initiatives. The 14th National Assembly, with a string of initiatives, has defied…

A Population Forgotten

A population forgotten

It is estimated that by 2030, we will number 250 million, and more than 315m by 2050. Surely it does not take much to imagine how today’s fight for water,…

Saving Marine Life

Saving marine life

There are many issues that confront our country, but environmental and ecological matters are perhaps the most neglected and least understood. We somehow fail to understand the intrinsic value of…

A Knowledge Economy

A knowledge economy

The world is being transformed at a mindboggling pace. Science, technology and innovation have become the keys to this transformation. For this reason countries such as Korea and Austria have…

Paris: The Accountant Comes Calling

Paris: the Accountant comes calling

Paris has become the destination of choice for the Accountant. Signing up for Open Government Partnership (OGP) has come on the heels of OECD convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance on…