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Improving Health Through Education & Better Sanitation
Every year more than 1.3 million children die globally due to diarrheal diseases (WHO, 2013). Diarrhea is a water-borne disease which is caused due to...
Jan 1, 2017
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Gary Becker: The Makings of a Nobel laureate
Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker passed away at the age of 83 on May 3, 2014 following complications from a recent surgery. He was born...
Dec 1, 2016
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Low Fee Private Schools: Last Hope or Lost Hope?
I got a chance to help in organizing the recently held USAID sponsored low fee private school conference held at LUMS. The fact that international donors such...
Nov 1, 2016
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Patronage Politics
Patronage politics, particularly that brand in which social groups are organised along ethnic lines, is a phenomenon Pakistani (and South Asian) politics is all too...
Oct 1, 2016
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Policing to Counter Terrorism?
Is the post 9/11 experience a harbinger of a period where we shall encounter a perpetual state of war? In the Post-World War II era,...
Sep 1, 2016
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