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Elections: necessary but woefully insufficient
Over 22 million children between the ages of 5-16 are currently out of school in Pakistan
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Structural adjustment flops
Indirect tax rates, however, rose from an average of 15% to 17% in the same period
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The decimation of higher education
The higher education landscape in Pakistan is dominated by a pathological politics of patronage
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Enough tinkering at the margins
Markets cannot flourish if their access remains restricted to people with pre-existing financial capital
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Choking civil society
In Pakistan, civil society has — since at least the 80s — largely taken the shape of hyper-conservative collectives
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Governance: a hard reset
A hard system reset seems increasingly unavoidable, and time is of the essence
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PPP’s progressive pivot?
To what extent to will the party push this on issues that have obstructed the blossoming of democracy in Pakistan
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Whither the public intellectual?
Original, nuanced, philosophically oriented thinkers are few and far between in academia today
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COP(-out) 27
A cursory glance across the set of primary organisations sponsoring the event tells a revealing tale
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Death to neoliberalism
The hegemonic ideology of neoliberalism must be directed to its rightful place: the dustbin of history