Reflecting on Prince Karim Aga Khan’s contributions to GBC
by Amin Beg As the world pays homage to the life and contributions of Prince Shah Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan
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Development
Pathways to Development: book explores a sustainable future
Herald Special Reporter Islamabad: The Centre for Strategic Perspectives (CSP) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) Wednesday launched
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Economic growth in G-B
promoting real estate business in mountain regions should be discouraged as it may result in disfiguring mountain landscape, create ecological and civic problems, as well as mass scale displacement and migration of people
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GB constitutional package: ‘move aims to legitimise colonial rule’
Young academic cautions youth about neoliberal ‘development mantra Special Correspondent Professor Zaighum Abbas speaking on the proposed provisional provincial status
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Contextualizing rural development
In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with
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What role developed states can play in pandemic
By Wajidul Islam COVID-19 in a single person means that the whole human species is at risk. Statistics
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Turning the table: empires and development concepts-II
The world is facing a growing disillusionment with current economic and political order that was historically erected through great games
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Development and games of empire
Scholars debunk neoliberal development concept; offer pluriversality and inclusive development concept by Fayyaz Baqir We are at a
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High Asia Exclusive: panelists for new social contract, ecological citizenship
By Farman Ali We are pleased to announce the soft launching of the High Asia TV transmission with an
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SDPI’s annual development moot begins from Dec 3
Policymakers, researchers and game changers from 22 countries will brainstorm on issues related to economy, trade, education, pollution, water management, emerging
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Relating Marx and Hegel in Hunza
Do we want recognition or should we focus on ending our growing social marginalization and economic inequality? Sultan Abbas Outsiders
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News Desk Berlin: Pluralism and strong civil society are vital for stability and effective development in fragile contexts. This was
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Civil society, as a key concept of social theory, has remained a Western construct for the most part of our
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Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model
The American model for development after World War-II was utterly incongruent with the social, economic, political and institutional ground realities in Pakistan …For this very reason, American and Pakistan’s ruling elites’ solution of throwing money for the alleviation of poverty did not have much success,” Professor Nipa Banerjee, a senior fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences at the School of International Development and Global Studies at Ottawa University, Canada.
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