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Hina Shaikh | March 14, 2023 Women Economic Empowerment is Key to Pakistan’s Development
Hina Shaikh | December 1, 2022 Climate priorities: Lessons for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan
Numair Liaqat | January 31, 2023 Electricity reforms when electricity is an entitlement: The case of Lahore, Pakistan
Hina Shaikh | August 17, 2022 Stubble burning in Pakistan: Why it continues and how can it be curtailed?
Emun Hafeez | June 16, 2022 Creating Fiscal Space for Sustainable Tourism in KPK
Sheheryar Khan | January 4, 2022 Desolation of Smog: Air Quality Crisis in Punjab
Emun Hafeez | November 1, 2021 The Rising Price of a Healthy Life
Emun Hafeez | October 18, 2021 Income Inequality under Covid-19
Emun Hafeez and Nick Wilkinson | September 24, 2021 Environmental judicial activism: Bridging gaps in Pakistan’s environmental protection strategy
Sheheryar Khan | July 30, 2021 Road to Economic Prosperity: Revitalizing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Cities
Hina Shaikh and Bakhtiar Iqbal | May 20, 2021 A new development framework for Balochistan
Hina Shaikh | May 19, 2021 Good Governance through improved evidence-based planning
Zohra Aslam | April 28, 2021 Mitigating Learning Losses During the Pandemic
Hina Shaikh | March 22, 2021 Has COVID-19 exacerbated gender inequalities in Pakistan?
Kashaf Ali | March 16, 2021 Unlocking Pakistan’s Income Tax Potential
Dr. Ijaz Nabi | February 16, 2021 Industries: from sunset to sunrise
Hina Shaikh and Anum Anis | October 16, 2020 Poverty eradication in Pakistan: Past, present, and future
Ijaz Nabi | October 16, 2020 Coping with COVID-19: The Pakistan Experience
Abdul Hadi | September 02, 2020 Property Tax and Urban Policy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kashaf Ali | August 24, 2020 Taxation for Growth in KP: A focus on Sales Tax on Services
Kashaf Ali | July 20, 2020 COVID-19 and Innovation in Retail
Bakhtiar Iqbal | May 12, 2020 Covid-19: Density Matters
Sharmin Arif and Rafay Afzal | April 30, 2020 Population Growth and the Demographic Dividend
Hina Shaikh | April 15, 2020 COVID-19: Pakistan’s preparations and response
Kashaf Ali | March 23 2020 Leaving No One Behind: The Role of Special Education in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh | March 02 2020 Book Review: Understanding Silk in South Asia
Zara Salman and Hina Shaikh | March 02, 2020 Bringing Pakistan’s Technology Sector to the Forefront
Sharmin Arif | December 05, 2019 Moving beyond the blame game: Addressing local sources of air pollution
Bakhtiar Iqbal | October 24, 2019 Flooded Cities: Managing Stormwater in Pakistan
Cecile Delcuvellerie, Noor Anwar Ali, Kate Vyborny, Erica Field and Rob Garlick | October 16, 2019 Women want to work and employers want to hire women – where is the disconnect?
Maheen Saleem Khosa | September 06, 2019 Educational attainment in Punjab – Have learning outcomes improved?
Maheen Saleem Khosa | August 23, 2019 The extent of improvement in educational participation and access – are more children going to school in Punjab?
Bakhtiar Iqbal | July 25, 2019 Understanding the need for stabilization
Sharmin Arif | July 18, 2019 Much-needed structural reforms and the role of IMF in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh | June 20, 2019 What does this budget say about the state of Pakistan’s economy?
Sharmin Arif | May 29, 2019 Marginalised groups face unequal access to public goods
Hina Shaikh | May 20, 2019 Urbanization and Growth
Jacopo Bonan, Giovanna d’Adda, Mahreen Mahmud, Massimo Tavoni and Farah Said | April 18, 2019 Flexible payment plans for improved access to off-grid energy in Pakistan
Ali Hasanain | April 12, 2019 The IMF Can’t Fix Pakistan
Bakhtiar Iqbal | April 1, 2019 Opportunities for Agriculture: Transforming Extension Services using ICT
Kamil Khan Mumtaz & Hina Shaikh | March 28, 2019 The Case of Affordable Housing
Hina Shaikh | March 20, 2019 The Precarious Housing Situation in Pakistan
Bakhtiar Iqbal | March 1, 2019 Opportunities for Agriculture: Transforming Extension Services using ICT
Hina Shaikh | January 30, 2019 Should graduation programs replace the more conventional cash transfers?
Neelgoon Safdar | January 24, 2019 Gender Gaps in Learning: Are Girls’ Schools Better?
Bakhtiar Iqbal | January 18, 2019 Sports and the City
Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar and Dr. Liou Xie | January 10, 2019 Reforming Gwadar City’s Governance
Usman Naeem | December 24, 2018 Supporting Gilgit-Baltistan’s agriculture sector
Sharmin Arif | December 6, 2018 Water scarcity versus water mismanagement in Pakistan
Ghazala Mansuri | November 28, 2018 Poor Sanitation is Stunting Children in Pakistan
Natasha Ansari | November 22, 2018 Women’s Mobility and Labor Force Participation in Karachi: Some Preliminary Observations
Bakhtiar Iqbal | November 1, 2018 Between a rock and a hard place
Hina Shaikh | September 27, 2018 Public finance to improve outcomes
Ali Hasanain | September 19, 2018 Beyond Good and Evil
Hina Shaikh | September 13, 2018 Resolving Pakistan’s Economic Woes – Weighing our options
Ghazan Jamal | September 5, 2018 Developing FATA in Naya Pakistan
Sharmin Arif | August 29, 2018 Aligning incentives: Maximizing the potential of philanthropic giving in Pakistan
Umair Javed | August 1, 2018 Development Challenges for Pakistan’s New Government
Sarah Khan | July 18, 2018 Why You Should Vote, According to Political Science
Hina Shaikh | June 27, 2018 Informal workers – Protecting the unprotected
Sharmin Arif | June 13, 2018 Renewable energy in Pakistan’s energy mix: a long-term solution
Usman Naeem and Hasaan Khawar | June 20, 2018 Formulating an industrial policy for Punjab
Ghazan Jamal | May 23, 2018 Reviving Pak-Afghan Trade
Umair Javed | July 12, 2018 Implementing complex reforms: The Roadmap approach in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh | April 25, 2018 Women in the workforce – What’s holding them back?
Usman Naeem | April 18, 2018 Pakistan’s power crisis and a solution
Hina Shaikh and Attique-ur-Rehman | April 11, 2018 The importance of good data for policymaking
Sharmin Arif | April 3, 2018 Bolstering firm productivity and growth through IGC-research
Ghazan Jamal | March 27, 2018 Administrative Reforms in FATA
Zara Salman | February 23, 2018 Can we trust our policymakers to be unbiased?
Hina Shaikh | February 22, 2018 Young blood: Pakistan’s bulging youth population needs employment opportunities
Sharmin Arif | February 15, 2018 Improving KP’s development outcomes
Hina Shaikh and Ijaz Nabi | February 9, 2018 Pakistan’s unsafe water
By Shahid Yusuf | February 3, 2018 Drive cautiously down China’s Belt and Road
Sharmin Arif and Shehryar Nabi | January 25, 2018 Clearing the air of toxic smog
Ali Cheema and Zulfiqar Hameed | January 29, 2017 Citizen Trust in Police: A Puzzling Paradox
Usman Naeem | December 7, 2017 Understanding Punjab’s rural non-farm economy
Sharmin Arif and Ijaz Nabi | November 22, 2017 Why CPEC is a wake-up call for Pakistan’s agriculture
Shehryar Nabi | November 9, 2017 How should we think about Pakistan’s middle class?
Hina Shaikh | 25 October 2017 Pakistan’s missing women
David Lagakos and Ethan Ilzetzki | 20 October 2017 The macroeconomic benefits of increasing tax enforcement in Pakistan
Ijaz Nabi | 12 October 2017 Garments exports, job creation, and growth in Pakistan: The way forwar
Agha Ali Akram | 4 October 2017 Why a grant to help people migrate during seasonal hardship could be a game changer
Hina Shaikh | 22 September 2017 Pakistan’s sixth population census: Expected and surprising figures on urban growth
Hassan Abbas Khan, Husnain Fateh Ahmed, and Nauman Ahmad Zafar | 20 September 2017 Harnessing technology for public sector reform: Procurement in Pakistan
Shehryar Nabi | 18 September 2017 In honor of exiles: A discussion of Osama Siddique’s “Snuffing Out the Moon”
Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, and Michael Best | 18 September 2017 Harnessing technology for public sector reform: Procurement in Pakistan
Salamat Ali and Ghazan Jamal | 7 September 2017 Engaging with Pakistan’s exporting firms to improve trade prospects
Hina Shaikh and Ijaz Nabi | 24 August 2017 How researchers are finding solutions to Pakistan’s urban challenges
Emilie Yam | 24 July 2017 Building capacity in fragility: Key lessons from Fragility Commission’s 3rd evidence session
Sherazam Tiwana | 19 July 2017 Do Pakistanis vote independently or do groups decide for them? A case study in Lahore
Hamna Ahmed, Asha Gul, Saheem Khizar, Simon Quinn, and Kate Vyborny | 6 July 2017 Six insights for engaging community activists in rural development
Shehryar Nabi and Rabea Malik | 6 July 2017 Interview with Madiha Afzal: How does education influence views about terrorism in Pakistan?
Jonathan de Quidt | 3 July 2017 Credit bureaus in microfinance: A baseline study
Osama Siddique | 30 June 2017 Behind most discontents lies a legal judgement
Rachel Cassidy, Fatima Habib, Shehryar Nabi, and Simon Quinn | 29 June 2017 How understanding women’s saving needs can improve micro-lending
Agha Ali Akram | 4 June 2017 How much are farmers losing from inefficient irrigation?
Zara Salman | 25 May 2017 Has GSP plus status improved Pakistan’s garments exports?
Ali Cheema, Asad Liaqat, and Shandana Khan Mohmand | 16 May 2017 Whose voice really counts? Machine politics and citizen voice aggregation in emerging democracies
Usman Naeem | 11 May 2017 Pakistan’s energy policy ignores lessons of history
Ghazan Jamal | 25 April 2017 Now that provinces have more control over taxes, do they collect more revenue?
Nalini Gulati and Jennifer Johnson | 21 April 2017 Smart policy for women’s economic empowerment in South Asia
Hamna Ahmed, Asha Gul, Saheem Khizar, Simon Quinn, Kate Vyborny | 4 April 2017 How well represented are women in Pakistan rural volunteer organizations?
Ijaz Nabi and Hina Shaikh | 28 March 2017 What the government is (and isn’t) doing to fix urban issues
Charity Troyer Moore and Vestal McIntyre | 22 March 2017 Women’s economic opportunities: What can South Asian countries learn from each other?
Maryam Khan | 21 March 2017 What we still don’t know about the lawyers movement
Amal Aslam | 15 March 2017 Making school reformers of head teachers
Lauren Woodbury | 7 March 2017 Women’s empowerment drives development
Gharad Bryan, Greg Fischer, Jonathan de Quidt, and Ali Akbar | 2 March 2017 Sharing once hidden information: Credit bureaus, MFIs, and client welfare
Asad Liaqat, Ali Cheema, and Jacob N. Shapiro | 21 February 2017 Challenges to Pakistan’s fledgling local democracy
Haseeb Sher Bajwa | 7 February 2017 How to gauge the impact of empathy-building initiatives
Shehryar Nabi | 1 February 2017 What President Trump means for Pakistan
Hina Shaikh and Ijaz Nabi | 10 January 2017 The six biggest challenges facing Pakistan’s urban future
Shehryar Nabi | 9 January 2017 Four approaches to unleashing Pakistan’s growth
Shehryar Nabi | 29 December 2016 15 changes in 2016 that shaped Pakistan’s development path
Rabea Malik | 11 December 2016 Understanding and responding to disadvantage in education
Anjum Nasim and Umbreen Fatima | 15 November 2016 What the data from 2014 reveals about income tax, Part 1: Tax filers and non-filers
Madeline Roth and Ammar A. Malik | 24 October 2016 What keeps cities in Asia and Africa from effective service delivery?
| 30 September 2016 Introducing Developing Pakistan
Feisal Khan | 3 June 2016 How not to control corruption: Pakistani style
Shehryar Nabi | 10 May 2016 Four ideas changing how the Punjab government thinks about development
Adam Weinstein | 13 April 2016 Terror and instability: Sanctions stifle Pakistani development
Jeffrey Hammer | 3 February 2016 Is ‘big data’ over-hyped? The importance of good data for improving health policy in Punjab
Salamat Ali | 29 January 2016 Trade costs and potential: Removing barriers to growth in Pakistan
Hina Shaikh | 29 July 2015 Moving Pakistan up the value chain: Opportunities in textiles and garments
Hina Shaikh and Sohaib Athar | 15 June 2015 Reforming the urban property tax in Punjab
Hina Shaikh | 1 May 2015 Cross-party involvement and reform in Pakistan
Sikander A. Shah and Uzair J. Kayani | 30 January 2015 Shutting competitors out: Pakistan’s trade barriers
Michael Callen and Arman Rezaee | 1 December 2014 How employees’ personality types affect productivity
Phil Thornton | 26 September 2014 Key lessons in management for developing countries
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