PAKISTAN DIALOGUES

2 September 2022

Conspiracy Theories, Foreign Policy, and Voting Behavior in Pakistan

Niloufer Siddiqui

The ouster of former prime minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote in April 2022 divided an already polarized nation. Since then...

19 August 2022

Feminist Protests and Politics in a World of Crisis

Sohela Nazneen

Feminist activism has faced new and diverse challenges over the past decade. These have led to an increased dismantling of civil liberties, freedom of speech, expression, and...

5 August 2022

Be the Solution: How Bureaucrats can Improve Public Sector Performance Through Mission Management

Dan Honig

Management reform strategies are often steeped in a top-down, command-and-control, incentive-laden theory of change. In my work, I explore when these approaches are useful, and...

22 July 2022

Bureaucracy, State Capacity, and Development

Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, Adnan Khan, Jonathan Old, and Guo Xu

How does bureaucracy matter for state capacity and development? Over the last years, enormous interest in this question has created a large body of research, mostly focused around...

9 July 2022

What precipitated the political crisis in Pakistan that brought about a change in the government? Will the nation move beyond the crisis any time soon? How can the implicit clash of institutions be avoided?

24 June 2022

Electronic Media Regulation in Pakistan: Possibilities for an Unnatural Experiment

Saher Asad

The regulation of electronic media happens through PEMRA, which is authorized in its watchdog capacity to send notices and directives to channels. But where does PEMRA dedicate most of its time?

10 June 2022

Killing to Multiply? The Consequences of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan

Rafat Mahmood and Michael Jetter

Despite the huge amounts of funds dedicated to the program and the repeated applause of the precision and efficacy of drone strikes from policy circles, evidence on the effectiveness of drone strikes as a counter-terrorism strategy is...

27 May 2022

Leveraging Digitization to Circumvent State Capacity Constraints

Sabrin Beg

What happens when property rights are not secure? In a recent paper, I delve into the role of property rights in explaining the misallocation of land and labor...

13 May 2022

Is Classroom Technology a Panacea to Save Struggling School Systems?

Sabrin Beg

Despite primary education being established as one of the 8-millennium development goals at the turn of the century, challenges still persist on the question of access...

29 April 2022

BISP Effects on Women’s Labor Supply

Hadia Majid and Syeda Warda Riaz

BISP has a stated objective of reducing gender inequalities and empowering women while combatting poverty.Yet, the expectation that transfer (and otherwise) income improves women’s options outside of marriage and changes household dynamics in their favor does not always hold. This is especially true when...

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