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Loans alone won’t do it
The Youth Loan Scheme doesn’t guarantee a future, as one still has to go through balloting to get the loan.
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Free-for-all; not so fair
Unless mafiosi are cut down & transparency, FoI, accountability applied, free & fair re-elections can’t be guaranteed.
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A lot of ‘cart-before-the-horse’ plans
Most manifestos seem to be reactive rather than proactively addressing fundamental gaps in development.
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What will peasants get in exchange for their vote?
Rural workers are not responding sheeplike to commit votes for the locally dominant political party.
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Polio campaign: was stoppage less dangerous than the vaccine?
If Pakistan really wants to be polio-free, it's more important to spend much more on clean water supply, sanitation.
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The global and local land-grab
Millions of acres of Pakistani land has been leased to foreign countries for agribusiness with no cover for locals.
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How banks make money — off you and me
Customers deposit their money which the bank lends out many times over, in many times its value.
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Everyone can have money: enough and legitimately
Germany’s public banks are a model worth adopting or adapting by the World Bank/IMF, impoverished countries like ours.
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Time for meaningful land reform
As hunger, poverty prevail, productivity from misguided technologies are dropping, tillers have to be given rights.
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One step forward, two steps back
Initially, it seemed crisis would elicit greater male appreciation of how women coped, but attitudes remained intact.