A longstanding debate in economics – and among social scientists more broadly – centers on how best to deliver international aid to developing countries. Should these countries’ governments rely on top-down wisdom from donor capitals? Or should they focus more on funding bottom-up solutions dictated by recipients? When the Trump administration proposed cutting the US …
In the post-war world, there have been many attempts at all levels—multinational, bilateral and domestic—to foster growth and development in the low income world so that these countries could catch up with their richer brethren from the industrial countries. Why has growth not been faster? What can be done to make these countries achieve a …
Dear Youth of Pakistan,On behalf of my generation, I offer you a heartfelt apology over our failure to leave you with hope and an inheritance that you can build on. Our fathers gave us an unfinished project called Pakistan. They had, however, given in very quickly to the pleasures of colonial apartheid, where they could live …
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This study was undertaken in 2017-18 within the scope of the Public Financial Management—Support Programme for Pakistan (PFM-SPP), financed by the European Union. The study is now published under the auspices of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in view of the importance of the analysis and issues addressed for the development and reform …
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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