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Green Spaces: The Double-Edged Sword of Urban Sustainability
Tashfeen Faisal Empowering Women, Nourishing Futures: Breaking the Cycle of Child Malnutrition in Pakistan.
Emun Hafeez Lags in Legality: Pakistan vs. Climate Change
Faiza Zia Lahore Beyond Boundaries – Not a Walled City Anymore
Hina Amber, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu Addressing the Gender Digital Divide in Pakistan: Promoting Equal Access to Mobile Phones for Economic Empowerment
Ayesha Zaman Elections 2024: The Case for Political Manifestos
Husnain F. Ahmad, Matthew Gibson, Fatiq Nadeem, Sanval Nasim, & Arman Rezaee Avoiding Air Pollution
Natalia Bokhari The Inequality of Rapid Urbanization
Asad Ejaz Butt Political Economy of the Durand Line: Ramifications for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Regional Security
Izza Malik Pursuing Justice in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Women Economic Empowerment is Key to Pakistan’s Development
Numair Liaqat Electricity reforms when electricity is an entitlement: The case of Lahore, Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Climate Priorities: Lessons for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Stubble burning in Pakistan: Why it continues and how can it be curtailed?
Emun Hafeez Creating Fiscal Space for Sustainable Tourism in KPK
Zohra Aslam Resilience and Inclusion in Education – Bridging the Learning Gap
Zohra Aslam Where Do We Go From Here? Education Sector’s Recovery from COVID-19
Sheheryar Khan Desolation of Smog: Air Quality Crisis in Punjab
Emun Hafeez The Rising Price of a Healthy Life
Emun Hafeez Income Inequality under Covid-19
Emun Hafeez and Nick Wilkinson Environmental judicial activism: Bridging gaps in Pakistan’s environmental protection strategy
Sheheryar Khan Road to Economic Prosperity: Revitalizing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Cities
Hina Shaikh and Bakhtiar Iqbal A New Development Framework for Balochistan
Hina Shaikh Good Governance through Improved Evidence-based Planning
Zohra Aslam Mitigating Learning Losses During the Pandemic
Hina Shaikh Has COVID-19 exacerbated gender inequalities in Pakistan?
Kashaf Ali Unlocking Pakistan’s Income Tax Potential
Dr. Ijaz Nabi Industries: from sunset to sunrise
Salman Khan The Fight against Gender Inequality in Developing Countries: Is Primary Schooling enough?
Hina Shaikh & Anum Anis Poverty Eradication in Pakistan: Past, Present, and Future
Ijaz Nabi Coping with COVID-19: The Pakistan Experience
Kashaf Ali Adaptive Policymaking: Bridging Planning, Policy and Practice in KP
Abdul Hadi Property Tax and Urban Policy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kashaf Ali Taxation for Growth in KP: A focus on Sales Tax on Services
Sahar Kamran & Maheen Saleem Khosa Social Equality Takes a Hit – The Gendered Impact of COVID 19
 Kashaf Ali COVID-19 and Innovation in Retail
Sahar Kamran & Maheen Saleem Khosa COVID-19: Exacerbating Gender Based Economic Inequalities
Safa Kashaf Education in the Time of Corona: Lessons from a Working mother’s perspective
Dr. Rabea Malik Challenges and Opportunities for Pakistan Education Systems in the COVID-19 response
Bakhtiar Iqbal Covid-19: Density Matters
Sharmin Arif & Rafay Afzal Population Growth and the Demographic Dividend
Syed Uzair Junaid, Lala Rukh Khan & Kate Vyborny Engaging with Mosque Imams for Effective Responses to COVID-19
 Hina Shaikh COVID-19: Pakistan’s Preparations and Response
Kashaf Ali Leaving No One Behind: The Role of Special Education in Pakistan
 Hina Shaikh Book Review: Understanding Silk in South Asia
Zara Salman and Hina Shaikh Bringing Pakistan’s Technology Sector to the Forefront
 Sharmin Arif Moving Beyond the Blame Game: Addressing Local Sources of Air Pollution
Kate Vyborny & Muhammad Haseeb BISP Scorecard Helps Ensure Fair Selection of Poor Beneficiaries
Lareeb Tariq Pakistan’s Macroeconomic Distress
Bakhtiar Iqbal Flooded Cities: Managing Stormwater in Pakistan
Cecile Delcuvellerie, Noor Anwar Ali, Kate Vyborny, Erica Field & Rob Garlick Women Want to Work and Employers Want to Hire Women – Where is the Disconnect?
Maheen Saleem Khosa Educational Attainment in Punjab – Have Learning Outcomes Improved?
Maheen Saleem Khosa The Extent of Improvement in Educational Participation and Access – are More Children Going to School in Punjab?
Bakhtiar Iqbal Understanding the Need for Stabilization
Sharmin Arif Much-needed Structural Reforms and the Role of IMF in Pakistan
 Hina Shaikh What Does this Budget Say about the State of Pakistan’s Economy?
 Sharmin Arif Marginalised Groups Face Unequal Access to Public Goods
 Hina Shaikh Urbanization and Growth
Jacopo Bonan, Giovanna d’Adda, Mahreen Mahmud, Massimo Tavoni & Farah Said Flexible Payment Plans for Improved Access to Off-Grid Energy in Pakistan
Ali Hasanain The IMF Can’t Fix Pakistan
Bakhtiar Iqbal Opportunities for Agriculture: Transforming Extension Services using ICT
Kamil Khan Mumtaz & Hina Shaikh The Case of Affordable Housing
Hina Shaikh The Precarious Housing Situation in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Should Graduation Programs Replace the More Conventional Cash Transfers?
Neelgoon Safdar Gender Gaps in Learning: Are Girls’ Schools Better?
Bakhtiar Iqbal Sports and the City
Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar & Dr. Liou Xie Reforming Gwadar City’s Governance
Usman Naeem Supporting Gilgit-Baltistan’s Agriculture Sector
Maheen Saleem Khosa Education Reform in Punjab
Sharmin Arif Water Scarcity Versus Water Mismanagement in Pakistan
 Dr. Ghazala Mansuri Poor Sanitation is Stunting Children in Pakistan
Natasha Ansari Women’s Mobility and Labor Force Participation in Karachi: Some Preliminary Observations
Bakhtiar Iqbal Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Sharmin Arif Third Tier Organisations (TTOs) in Pakistan: Filling Public Delivery Gaps at the Community Level
Maryam S. Khan & Dania Mukhtar Mapping Civil Society Spaces in Pakistan: A Preliminary Foray into CSOs Working on Child Abuse
Hina Shaikh Public Finance to Improve Outcomes
Ali Hasanain Beyond Good and Evil
 Hina Shaikh Resolving Pakistan’s Economic Woes – Weighing our Options
 Ghazan Jamal Developing FATA in Naya Pakistan
Sharmin Arif Aligning Incentives: Maximizing the Potential of Philanthropic Giving in Pakistan
Umair Javed Development Challenges for Pakistan’s New Government
Sarah Khan Why You Should Vote, According to Political Science
Umair Javed Implementing Complex Reforms: The Roadmap Approach in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Informal Workers – Protecting the Unprotected
 Usman Naeem & Hasaan Khawar Formulating an Industrial Policy for Punjab
Sharmin Arif Renewable Energy in Pakistan’s Energy Mix: a Long-Term Solution
Ghazan Jamal Reviving Pak-Afghan Trade
Hina Shaikh Striking Back at Inequality: Policies and Practices to Ensure Women’s Work is Valued
Hina Shaikh Women in the Workforce – What’s Holding Them Back?
Usman Naeem Pakistan’s Power Crisis and a Solution
 Hina Shaikh & Attique-ur-Rehman The Importance of Good Data for Policymaking
Sharmin Arif Bolstering Firm Productivity and Growth Through IGC-Research
Ghazan Jamal Administrative Reforms in FATA
Zara Salman Can We Trust Our Policymakers To Be Unbiased?
Hina Shaikh Young Blood: Pakistan’s Bulging Youth Population Needs Employment Opportunities
Sharmin Arif Improving KP’s Development Outcomes
Pakistan’s unsafe water
Drive cautiously down China’s Belt and Road
Clearing the air of toxic smog
Citizen Trust in Police: A Puzzling Paradox
Understanding Punjab’s rural non-farm economy
Why CPEC is a wake-up call for Pakistan’s agriculture
How should we think about Pakistan’s middle class?
Pakistan’s missing women
Garments exports, job creation, and growth in Pakistan: The way forward
Why a grant to help people migrate during seasonal hardship could be a game changer
Pakistan’s sixth population census: Expected and surprising figures on urban growth
In honor of exiles: A discussion of Osama Siddique’s “Snuffing Out the Moon”
Engaging with Pakistan’s exporting firms to improve trade prospects
How researchers are finding solutions to Pakistan’s urban challenges
Do Pakistanis vote independently or do groups decide for them? A case study in Lahore
Interview with Madiha Afzal: How does education influence views about terrorism in Pakistan?
Six insights for engaging community activists in rural development
How understanding women’s saving needs can improve micro-lending
How much are farmers losing from inefficient irrigation?
Panama verdict: Behind most discontents lies a legal judgement
Has GSP plus status improved Pakistan’s garments exports?
Whose voice really counts? Machine politics and citizen voice aggregation in emerging democracies
Pakistan’s energy policy ignores lessons of history
Now that provinces have more control over taxes, do they collect more revenue?
How well represented are women in Pakistan’s rural volunteer organizations?
What the government is (and isn’t) doing to fix urban issues
What we still don’t know about the Lawyers’ Movement
Making school reformers of head teachers
Women’s empowerment drives development
Challenges to Pakistan’s fledgling local democracy
How to gauge the impact of empathy-building initiatives
What President Trump means for Pakistan
The six biggest challenges facing Pakistan’s urban future
15 changes in 2016 that shaped Pakistan’s development path
Understanding and responding to disadvantage in education
What the data from 2014 reveals about income tax, Part 1: Tax filers and non-filers
Introducing Developing Pakistan
David Lagakos and Ethan Ilzetzki The macroeconomic benefits of increasing tax enforcement in Pakistan
Hassan Abbas Khan, Husnain Fateh Ahmed, and Nauman Ahmad Zafar Harnessing technology for public sector reform: Procurement in Pakistan
Emilie Yam Building capacity in fragility: Key lessons from Fragility Commission’s 3rd evidence session
Jonathan de Quidt Credit bureaus in microfinance: A baseline study
Osama Siddique Behind most discontents lies a legal judgement
Nalini Gulati and Jennifer Johnson Smart policy for women’s economic empowerment in South Asia
Charity Troyer Moore and Vestal McIntyre Women’s economic opportunities: What can South Asian countries learn from each other?
Gharad Bryan, Greg Fischer, Jonathan de Quidt, and Ali Akbar Sharing once hidden information: Credit bureaus, MFIs, and client welfare
Shehryar Nabi Four approaches to unleashing Pakistan’s growth
Madeline Roth and Ammar A. Malik What keeps cities in Asia and Africa from effective service delivery?
Feisal Khan How not to control corruption: Pakistani style
Shehryar Nabi Four ideas changing how the Punjab government thinks about development
Adam Weinstein Terror and instability: Sanctions stifle Pakistani development
Jeffrey Hammer Is ‘big data’ over-hyped? The importance of good data for improving health policy in Punjab
Salamat Ali Trade costs and potential: Removing barriers to growth in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh Moving Pakistan up the value chain: Opportunities in textiles and garments
Hina Shaikh and Sohaib Athar Reforming the urban property tax in Punjab
Hina Shaikh Cross-party involvement and reform in Pakistan
Sikander A. Shah and Uzair J. Kayani Shutting competitors out: Pakistan’s trade barriers
Michael Callen and Arman Rezaee How employees’ personality types affect productivity
Phil Thornton Key lessons in management for developing countries
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