RESEARCH / PUBLICATIONS

Pakistan’s Taxation Conundrum

This Issue Paper examines Pakistan’s revenue raising deficiencies and weak fiscal architecture as a security problem, one that requires proactive remedial measures and an effort towards public value co-creation.
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Traps of Antiquity

The Traps of Antiquity

As tensions between the United States and China have simmered in recent years, scholars and strategists have sought to frame the contemporary rivalry between both

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Color Line

The Color Line

The convulsions of the year 2020 roiled the United States in at least two important ways: (1) they re-opened the gaping wound of racial inequities

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On Central Bank Independence

The notion of central bank independence (CBI) is both sensitive and complex, driven not just by a local economic context but by larger international “conventional

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carving up

Carving up Cartels

At present, Pakistan’s cement per capita consumption is only half of the world average (around 200kg versus 520kg for the world). This suggests that there

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