Cities are being built for cars. The trend of walking and biking in Pakistan has now changed. people are now more obsessed with cars that has resulted into huge highways, abundant flyovers and underpasses for signal free corridors that has made biking and walking impossible. All sidewalks are eliminated and there are no bike lanes. …
Domestic commerce is the most pro-poor growth possibility in the country. Currently, it employs about 40 percent of the labour force and contributes about 52 percent to GDP. If it can be provided with an enabling environment, our estimates suggest that it could help increase the growth rate by at least 2 percentage points. To …
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Much time is wasted debating the government or the market, as if the polar positions are more than a teaching device. Mere claims “leave it to the market” or “the government must provide or ensure” are used as clever closing arguments in debates and even research papers. Yet at no point in history has there …
The Need for a Wide Debate PIDE series on institutional reform are important to generate a national debate on this important notion of getting the government right. The discussion on any such institution should therefore not be seen as a critique. Instead this should be a regular subject of public policy research in all our …
PIDE series on institutional reform are important to generate a national debate on this important notion of getting the government right. Several questions are the center of the discussions such as, who makes policy? What civil service is doing? Is regulation, managing PSEs and education, etc. the job of civil servants? Who owns the city? …
Book Editor: Aimen Shakeel Abbasi ____________________________________________________________ Dear Youth of Pakistan, “On behalf of my generation, I offer you a heartfelt apology for 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 …
Author’s IntroductionThese essays were written over a period of three years primarily as a means toanalysing the political economy of the country and present that analysis in a manner thatis easily readable by the ordinary reader. The style of these essays is, therefore, veryinformal and, I hope, easily readable. As much as possible a conversational …
Everyone wants more democracy not less. We need real representation not mere selecting rulers. There must be more debate on what democracy means and how we can make it more meaningful. PIDE came up with an idea to hold a Grand National Dialogue (GND), spanning over five days, with over 20 leading intellectuals from diverse …
How not to develop cities? Once again, PIDE is providing you with substantive yet entertaining public policy thoughts, ideas and research for the curious in an enjoyable magazine. I congratulate the PIDE team on this issue which I hope will provoke you to join us in debating a better future. The story of Pakistan’s urban …
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