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…
Out of sight, out of mind: Problems with decades-old pipes and sewers across American cities and towns are largely hidden and tend to be neglected for years before exploding into…
Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda for how people and goods are moved around the region and across…
ALL socioeconomic indicators show a marked difference between Balochistan and national averages. Whether it is the list of Pakistan’s most backward districts, poverty rates and GDP per capita, or unemployment,…
