Reforms: a history of the future?
Amidst all the noise surrounding cheese imports and crowd-sourcing for vital national security infrastructure, there was news of two new committees established under the chairpersonship of Dr Ishrat Husain, who…
Reforms for justice
In his first speech, Prime Minister Imran Khan emphasised the need for institutional reforms in almost every sector, including the justice system. However, without reforming the justice system immediately, reforms…
Economic reforms: Part-XXIV
In our series on economic reforms we discussed the outcomes achieved under the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), 2001. As mentioned earlier, the PRSP was a comprehensive statement of economic…
Institutional poverty
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…
Institutional change
The ‘catch-up’ hypothesis in economics holds that per capita income in poor countries will eventually catch up with the per capita income of rich countries. Although China, some East Asian…
The awaited electoral reforms
The previous National Assembly and Senate can be rightly credited with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which also included key electoral reforms such as the bipartisan…
Institutional stability
Is Pakistan’s democratic experience failing? Why have the liberal democrats and the free market economics not delivered at the desired pace and quality to make a palpable difference in the…
Police reforms agenda
The police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law. This was the key principle established by…
Reflections on Fata reforms
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have been in turmoil for quite some time but the military operations have added to people’s woes. Almost two million people — one-third of…
Legal reforms
IN the wake of the recent Supreme Court judgement about the military courts, reforming our justice system has become imperative. We have a weak legal apparatus; of that there is…
