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The national fiscal pact

By Almazia Shahzad Published in The News on October 24, 2024 A new important piece in the legal domain of Pakistan’s public finance management system is the National Fiscal Pact (NFP), which reportedly all four provinces have now signed onto. The pact will be governed by a Memorandum of Understanding, in contrast to the constitutionally binding National […]

Quality education for all

By Amna Nasir Zaman Published in The News on October 04, 2024 Pakistan’s education sector is a flagrant reflection of the country’s entrenched socio-economic and gender disparities, with low budgetary allocations further widening the divide. Despite pledges of education emergency and pressures from global bodies to increase education budget to 4 percent of the GDP, it continues[…]

Pakistani cities becoming ‘least livable’ with time: ADB

By Amin Ahmed Published in Dawn on October 22, 2024 ISLAMABAD: The Asian Deve­lopment Bank says the livability of cities in Pakistan is decreasing, and urban centres in the country are becoming increasingly inefficient, scoring low on multiple competitiveness indexes, with congestion, unattractiveness and pollution. In an urban development analysis incorporated in the “Pakistan National Urban Assessment[…]