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Pakistan’s mysterious population figures
The new UN population projections were published to great fanfare last week, with much of the coverage focusing on a significant increase in overall estimates from the 2008 figures. Pakistan, however,...
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What’s Wrong With CGD’s Pakistan Initiative
The Center for Global Development has been organizing a Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan. It published a report listing its recommendations last June. Nancy Birdsall, CGD’s...
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Why do some countries have so few NGOs?
Homegrown nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play crucial roles providing social services to the poor, holding governments accountable, aggregating the political power of the disenfranchised, and...
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Is Pakistan an emerging market?
Most people in the West believe that Pakistan is an unstable country on the verge of imminent collapse or an explosion of violence. It is consistently portrayed—by politicians, policymakers, and the...
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Are Language Policies Increasing Poverty and Inequality?
Language is one of the most neglected areas in the development field. It barely registers on any agenda to help poor countries despite its importance to a number of crucial areas and it being a...
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Can Foreign Aid Improve Pakistan ’s Political Economy?
Like many struggling countries, Pakistan’s two most critical problems are feckless leaders and a feeble state. Can donors do anything to help get such countries’ political economy moving in the right...
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Power and Politics in Pakistan: A Limited Access Order
The Limited Access Order (LAO) conceptual framework is an excellent way to understand why developing countries work the way they do, analyze their political and economic dynamics, and formulate policy...
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Pakistan’s Next Generation: Insecure Lives, Untold Stories
I’m in Lahore launching the third report from Pakistan’s Next Generation Task Force – I’m the Task Force’s director of research. In the first report, we looked at the economic potential of young people...
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