Social Inclusion

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...

9 June 2021

Education or Employment – which is more critical for the empowerment of Pakistani women?

Zeba Sathar

In 1992, Larry Summers in his lecture at the Annual Pakistan Society of Development Economics titled, “Investing in all the people”, presented a compelling argument in favor of girls’ education for development. The main academic debates...

25 April 2021

Informality and Covid-19 in Pakistan

Umair Javed

About 60 percent of the world’s labour force works in the informal sector, typically outside the net of formal institutionalised relationships between workers, states and companies. This means that informal workers are often excluded from state-led social protection programmes and the various formal...

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Social Inclusion

Feminist Protests and Politics in a World of Crisis

Education or Employment – which is more critical for the empowerment of Pakistani women?

Informality and Covid-19 in Pakistan