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Umair Javed
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Umair Javed is a PhD candidate in Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests span the study of Pakistan’s emergent middle classes, state-society relations in the global South, and the political economy of governance and reform in democratising countries. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Department of Human Geography, King’s College London, the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), and as a governance specialist at The Asia Foundation. Umair Javed currently writes a fortnightly current affairs column for Pakistan’s premier English language daily, DAWN. His academic and opinion writings have been published in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Herald, The National, Business Standard, and The Friday Times.
Javed has a MSc in Politics from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
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The question of 10 million jobs is not of whether enough jobs can be created, writes CDPR Fellow Adil Najam, but of whether we can create *good* jobs. In this article, he points out key aspects of employment that the government must focus on to ensure the economy is able to satisfy the growing demand for work. Read more in the article below.