Inequality Archives

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...

15 April 2022

Does Women’s Electoral Turnout Imply Their Political Agency?

Soledad Prillaman

While positive swings most certainly indicate improving trends in women’s political inclusion, should we see the lack of a gender gap in turnout as indicative of women’s political agency? My recent research in rural India suggests maybe not...

1 April 2022

Electric Citizenship: Service Delivery and the Creation of a Public Good

Erum A. Haider

Providing fair and equitable access to utilities is the cornerstone of building trust between states and citizens. But states are increasingly under pressure to reduce subsidies for utilities such as water and electricity. Last year...

23 February 2022

Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policies – The Need for a New Approach

Fizzah Sajjad

On 11 November 2021, Zakia Bibi, a resident of the Gujjar Nala community in Karachi, passed away from a heart attack after her home was demolished by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on the Supreme Court’s directives. Just a week before...

3 November 2021

Can Cash Transfers Increase Women’s Grassroots Political Participation? Survey Evidence From Pakistan

Rehan R Jamil, Matteo Iudice

Over the past two decades, Pakistan has experienced a ‘paradigm’ shift in its approach to social protection ( Gazdar, 2011 ). Prior to the creation of the Benazir Income Support...

3 November 2021

Demanding Power in Pakistan

Amina Omer, Umair Javed

What does the politics of energy tell us about the relationship of the Pakistani state with its citizens? With loadshedding in the news again, it is worth looking at the preceding two decades to assess whether any substantive change in this relationship has taken place...

1 October 2021

From Ivory Towers To Building Blocks

Shad Moarif

Today, we see bright, knowledgeable folks of all ages, male and female, who know and understand education far better than those with decision-making powers. Almost all come from a segment of society that has benefitted from...

17 September 2021

Why did Covid-19 increase women’s care and housework in Pakistan?

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand Covid-19 lockdown measures resulted in an increase in care and housework in homes around the world. But with the greater presence of men at home as a result of lockdown and job losses, why are women...

3 September 2021

What about these Covid-19 learning losses?

Soufia A. Siddiqi, Momina Idrees, Musharfa Shah

As educational institutions across Pakistan slowly reopen for a new academic year, an underlying anxiety is taking root: by how much has the learning of Pakistani students been set back? If lessons from recent scholarship are anything to go by, our youngest children...

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