The Rules Currently Are Too Complex, Detailed, Often Self-Contradictory, And Subject To Multiple Interpretations. The Permissions And Procedures Written Therein Can Slow Down Development As Envisioned By Pm For The Welfare Of The Country. Building And Zoning Rules Are Conflated. Building Rules Are Mainly For Safety And Curbing Environmental Externalities. In This Regard, Setbacks And …
Government’s footprint on the economy in Pakistan is more than what annual general government spending (22 percent of GDP) suggests. In addition to spending; about 200 State Owned Entities, SROs culture and cumbersome business regulations combine towards a footprint of the government amounting to approximately 67 percent on Pakistan’s Economy.
This paper argues that successful public policy requires engaged research developing ideas and evidence from diverse vantage points. Pakistan’s social science research remains fragmented, under-resourced and dependent on external agendas. We describe a five-year pilot programme to enhance Pakistan’s research culture. Seventy-two crowd-sourced and competitively-selected projects at 46 geographically dispersed institutions were supported. Provincial universities …
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Real estate development in Pakistan suffers from a bad reputation, both in policy circles, and in the public. Detractors frequently claim that investing in real estate is unproductive and should be discouraged. Officials often put forward unsubstantiated claims that the real estate business is riddled with illegal activity of all sorts. However, when one looks …
Lord Keynes in a famous statement said that “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”It is not surprising to …
Devolution in Pakistan is an evolving subject. Even as we speak fresh local government law is being debated and developed for legislation sometime this year. Devolution in Pakistan is moving in the direction of the expectations for city management in the rest of the world (see Box1). The debate on local government is sporadic but …
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The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) organised a conference on the development policy of Pakistan with a focus on planning and public investment policy. At the Conference, a PIDE study entitled, Doing Development Better1 was launched and discussed. The key findings of the conference are listed below:
It is indeed an honour to present the Mahbub ul Haq Memorial lecture this year at the PSDE. Dr Haq was the single most important economist that Pakistan has produced. He laid the groundwork for the development planning as well as affected many a policy debate in the international circles the most memorable of which …
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The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) organized a conference on the development policy of Pakistan with a focus on planning and public investment policy. At the Conference (see Box 3 for details), a PIDE study entitled, Doing Development Better’ was launched and discussed.
When I write about going high, everyone responds, “what about parking?” My response “we don’t need parking!” is met with shock. We are making cities for cars. There was a time people walked or biked in most of our cities. Since then an obsession with cars has widened roads to huge urban highways that are …
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