Local elections in the doldrums

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed the Sindh government’s latest request to delay local government elections in Karachi for the third time this year. The Sindh government had made the request after the Sin...

Early-years skills

In the past centuries, many systems of education have been tried and tested around the world for early childhood education. Among these, the Montessori method, with its emphasis on freedom to learn and its hands-on approach, bec...

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Empowering workers

As globalisation reshapes the world economy, skilled labour has become a critical resource for nations vying for economic progress. In Pakistan’s technical and vocational ecosystem, like in other countries, an approach to skil...

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Dealing with the Taliban

When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan over three years ago, Pakistan’s policymakers assumed this would help to guarantee the stability of the country’s western border. That has long been a strategic compulsion ...

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Institutional debacle

The importance of institutions for economic development and growth has long been recognised — for example, in the writings of Adam Smith and, more recently, exemplified by Douglass North’s 1993 Nobel Prize. Governance q...

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Anything goes

It seems that the dark days of the freewheeling internet have returned. Two of the largest global social media companies have already abandoned important efforts and initiatives aimed at moderating speech on their p...

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