Gender Diversity 101
The verdict is out. There are no women, in this population of nearly 200 million, competent enough to serve on the board of directors of the State Bank of Pakistan.…
Development deficit
The recent annual Human Development Report places Pakistan in the low human development category Human Development Report is a barometer of the state of human development in different countries of…
Structural chains
When one glances at the past, one finds Pakistan fighting on many fronts simultaneously without a respite. The country has lost most often but it still survives thanks to the…
China challenge: getting poor migrant workers to buy vacant homes
Rattled by the potential economic fallout from millions of unsold homes, China wants migrant workers to buy properties in smaller cities and ease the burden on a real estate sector…
Towards building a new migration system
Over land, by air and by sea, the people of Asia and the Pacific are on the move - this is the finding of the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Migration Report, the…
A proxy war of confrontation
The historical parallel for Syria today is the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s, a dress rehearsal for the building wider conflict, only now with the key players arranged…
Looming depression?
Economic statistics are closely watched by analysts in order to gauge the health of an economy. These are important for the purposes of policy formulations and conducting an analysis of…
Nurturing the soul
It was a stunning display of our military strength on March 23 this year. Tanks roared as they rolled, fighter planes thundered as they flashed on the horizon of Shakarparian,…
The mysterious ways of consumers
The figures before us are stark. They tell us that more than 60 percent of people in the country live below the poverty line (according to the UNDP’s Human Development…
