Wake Up! It’s Time for School

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It was only recently that a shrewd economics graduate from my university claimed that the world as we know it is a fair place to...

Aug 15, 2016

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The Potholed Road to Decentralization: An Explorative Study on Service Delivery in Karachi

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IDEAS Research Associate, Ammar Khalid & Kabeer Dawani, Collective for Social Science Research Associate presented in a panel discussion based on their paper, “The Potholed...

Ammar Khalid

Feb 1, 2016

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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Book Review

We have known, for a fairly long time, that we can get swayed by short-term considerations and act against our long-term interests. We know we...

Dec 31, 2015

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Minorities: Constitutionalising Sectarianism in Pakistan

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This blog post originally appeared in The Law and Policy Research Network (LPRN), on November 12, 2015. The Minorities Blog features writings on the status and...

Nov 12, 2015

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Assistance that Seldom Helps

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This blog post originally appeared in the Herald, on August 29, 2015. Pakistan’s external debt and liabilities stood at 63.96 billion US dollars at the end...

Aug 29, 2015

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