Pakistan Population Summit | GENERAL SESSION 5: Regional Review of Population & Economic Growth
Dr. Rashid Amjad, Professor of Economics and Director, GIDS, Lahore School of Economics addresses the Dawn Summit on Population on “Why Pakistan has not reaped the Demographic Dividend: lessons from countries in the region which have done so’” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SH_M_KM-79iKBYHRH0YKeEDnZUuIFFzu/view?usp=drive_link
Stretched thin
Published in Dawn on December 08, 2025 THE recent Pakistan Population Summit organised by DawnMedia laid it out plainly: the country cannot keep growing at its current pace. We stand at more than 241m people and numbers are expected to cross 330m by 2050. Pakistan is hurtling towards a future[…]
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DecDemonising the NFC Award
By Sakib Sherani Published in Dawn on December 06, 2025 THE newfound eagerness to recast Pakistan into a ‘hard state’, with its attendant power-centralising and anti-participatory tendency, has given an impetus to rolling back the federal structure enshrined in the 1973 Constitution. Reworking the NFC Award by fiat rather than[…]
Age of creative destruction
By Waqar Wadho Published in Dawn on November 27, 2025 THIS year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Joel Mokyr for reshaping how we understand economic growth in the long run. Their core idea is simple but powerful: sustainable economic growth and prosperity is[…]
