Besides providing Afghan returnees meagre support, UNHCR failed to effectively reintegrate them back home.

Policymakers need to take a proactive stance in pushing through progressive taxation.

We need a bottom-up approach to agricultural development which emphasises on increasing productivity of small farmers.

Despite need for equitable education, educational access & outcomes are hindered by geography, poverty, gender biases.

Encouraging new generation vaccine production in developing countries requires intensive capacity building, technology

Countries like Pakistan will find it impossible to achieve prosperity with such deeply ingrained gender biases.

Revamping the BISP does pose serious challenges in terms of addressing the plight of poor Pakistanis.

The Sofosbuvir treatment is a 12-week course estimated to cost about $84,000 in rich countries like the US.

Indian planners face an uphill task in reducing poverty amongst religious minorities, especially urban Muslims.

Impact of expensive schemes in improving capacity of tertiary students to become productive remains to be seen.