Economic policies over past years and decades have had negative impacts on living standards, the private sector and the environment, driving a deep crisis that is hitting ordinary Pakistanis…

Tobias Haque |

An overwhelming 40 percent of the total solid waste found in the Indus River and along its banks is plastic.

Rahat Jabeen, Mahwish Bukhari |

The blog talks about the Punjab province's successful education reform strategy.

Ayesha Tahir, Koen Geven |

Afghanistan remains a challenging environment for accessing reliable, transparent, and low-cost financial services. According to 2017 Global Findex, only 15 percent of adults had an account at any…

Namoos Zaheer |

In 2022, catastrophic floods hit Pakistan, impacting access to education for more than 3.5 million children. A year on, the disruption to education and the lack of focus on learning recovery will…

Freya Perry, Juan D. Barón, Lauren Dahlin |

South Asia is the fastest growing region in the world. The region can chart a path towards growth that is sustainable by greening its infrastructure, creating jobs, and making its economies and…

Martin Raiser |

The international community needs to deliver on its commitments to reduce carbon emissions so that extreme weather patterns and floods don’t become the norm and provide sustained support to help…

John Roome |

South Asia’s higher education sector has been growing. As countries struggle to accommodate increasing student numbers with limited financial resources, regional collaboration in the higher…

Cecile Fruman, Lynne Sherburne-Benz |

South Asia continues to experience rising temperatures, with record-breaking heat waves that are longer, hotter, and more frequent. Heat not only causes deaths and lowers productivity, but also…

Ella Kim, Sebastian Forsch, Leon Glicksman |

An Enterprise Survey looked at the state of the private sector in Pakistan - and found interesting insights on the lack of R&D spending and linkages to low efficiency, women's…

Rafay Khan, Domenico Viganola |