Will you serve the public?
What is it that keeps a highly educated professional with diverse experience in the lowly paid civil services of Pakistan? Is it the palatial GOR residences, the colonial era cushy…
Overhaul the system
The politico-social and economic structures fostered by our political, agricultural, industrial and military-bureaucratic elite are incapable of conceiving and devising policies and revitalising decaying institutional structures for stimulating economic growth.…
Consensus for change?
Though the dharnas started out with less loftier objectives, slowly the rhetoric of the leaders has moved to grander visions of what they would like to achieve. Apart from specifics…
Would you invest here?
Whether there is a dharna, a flood, or a leaky faucet, ‘analysts’ are quick to point out their economic consequences. When the floods of 2010 happened, the finance minister would…
Can Pakistan become a welfare state?
The debate that is going on in Islamabad at the moment is about the viability of the political state of Pakistan. That political economics plays a big part can be…
Lollipops or reforms?
The accumulated sins of poor governance and the persistent refusal to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of democracy have arrived at the gates of Islamabad in the…
Survey results require PM’s attention
The public gave a negative rating to federal government's efforts to alleviate poverty and improve energy production and management (negative 51 percent) and a positive rating to strengthening national security…
The bliss of certainty
To date, I have resisted the urge to weigh in on the ongoing fractal farce, the political tragicomedy that Pakistan has seen fit to stage to a sold out house…
Microfinance: towards an inclusive financial sector
Today, one of the key challenges emerging nations face while pursuing economic growth and development is how to counter poverty. Poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon that includes, but goes beyond…
Microfinance: towards an inclusive financial sector
Today, one of the key challenges emerging nations face while pursuing economic growth and development is how to counter poverty. Poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon that includes, but goes beyond…
