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16 September 2022

Role of Supply Chains in Determining Farmers’ Productivity and Consumer Prices

Sher Afghan Asad and Omar Hayat Gondal

Chances are that the fruits and vegetables you ate today have been routed through one of the government-regulated wholesale markets after following a complex supply chain. This may lead us to think...

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

A Clash of Institutions?

Mohammad Waseem

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...

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...

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