The novel coronavirus has exposed the weakness of our development planning. We have plush roads for cars, but the health industry remains stagnant. We have 200 universities with a few accomplished… Share Next Story >>> The novel coronavirus has exposed the weakness of our development planning. We have plush roads for cars, but the health …
’’اقتصادی پیکجز پاکستان جیسی کمزور معیشت کے لیے ناکافی ہیں‘‘پاکستان انسٹیٹیوٹ آف ڈیولپمنٹ اکنامکس کے وائس چانسلر ڈاکٹر ندیم الحق کا کہنا ہے کہ پاکستان کی معیشت کا پہیہ چلتے رہنے کے لیے ضروری ہے کہ بہتر انتظامات کے تحت سمارٹ لاک ڈاؤن پرعمل درآمد کیا جائے۔سوال: پاکستان میں جزوی لاک ڈاؤن کیا معیشت کے …
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CONTENTS Pages Foreword v PART 1 Pakistan: The Need for Civil Service Reform Shahid H. Kardar 1 Decentralise, Professionalise, and Autonomise Nadeem Ul Haque 17 Why Perks Block Reform Nadeem Ul Haque 21 Reforming the Civil Servants’ Pension System Shahid H. Kardar 25 Explaining Civil Service in Pakistan Moeen Afzal 29 The …
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The novel corona virus has exposed the weakness of our development planning. We have plush roads for our cars, but our health industry remains stagnant. We have 200 universities with few accomplished professors to lead the research effort to fight the corona. By design, the focus of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) is on “Brick …
PIDE COVID-19 Bulletin No. 2, talked about the ‘lockdown paradox’ that confronted Pakistan, and most countries in the world, at that time. What we have seen in the country is neither a complete lockdown nor exactly just a slowdown. Twenty-two days have passed since that Bulletin, and people are beginning to show signs of worry, …
The Cost of Disinflation: The Sacrifice Ratio? NADEEM UL HAQUE, Vice Chancellor, PIDE ABDUL JALIL, Professor of Economics, PIDE PRICE STABILITY IS IMPORTANT Price stability is an imperative in economics. Independent central banks have therefore been encouraged by the IMF in all countries with a clear mandate to achieve a low inflation target. It is …
Learning about the Corona War: Previous PIDE COVID-19 Bulletins • Bulletin 1: Poverty will increase from 55 million people to 125 million people, depending on the depth of the economic recession due to COVID-19. • Bulletin 2: Lockdown is necessary and how to do it. Partial lockdown is happening now and is likely to cause …
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PIDE has been holding regular virtual meetings with a number of people from diverse backgrounds every day to crowd source information and analysis on the Covid-19 crisis. One important theme that has emerged during these discussions is that the public must clearly see the management of the crisis being done on a war-footing. With that …
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COVID-19 has virtually shut down the world. Pakistan has been slow in response but seems to be catching up as Coronavirus spreads in the country. At the beginning, officials were somewhat casual about people entering Pakistan from overseas. In particular, lack of proper quarantine facilities and inappropriate screening procedures resulted in several infected people reaching …
Pakistan is now facing what has come to be known as the ‘Lockdown Paradox’- the paradox to save economy by shutting it down fast. The relation between the pandemic and the measures meant to mitigate it present this painful paradox. A prolonged period of fighting the outbreak would delay an economic rebound in the long …
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