Pakistan - Governance: Recent submissions
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What Does Closing Civic Space Mean for Development? A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
(IDS, 2018-07)What does closing civic space mean for development? Aid donors are concerned about the implications of restrictions on civil society for their partners and programmes, but to date there has been little clarity about what ... -
Energy Protests in Fragile Settings: The Unruly Politics of Provisions in Egypt, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, 2007–2017
(IDS, 2018-06)How do popular protests about the basics of everyday life, specifically about energy, come about in settings where political authority is fragmented and conflict and repression common? How do state and political actors ... -
A Strategic Approach to Social Accountability in Pakistan
(IDS, 2017-10)This paper explores the progress of the Empowerment, Voice and Accountability for Better Health and Nutrition (EVA) project implemented by Palladium in partnership with the Centre for Communications Programmes Pakistan. ... -
Competing to deliver? Political workers and service delivery in Pakistan
(2017-10)Why do some citizens receive better municipal services than others? Comparative political economy is deeply concerned with this question, but most answers so far suggest that unequal access to these services is determined ... -
Cross-border Conflict Drivers and Breaks – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-27)This report provides an overview of the evidence on cross-border conflict drivers and breaks along the Pakistan–Afghanistan–Iran–Iraq route. Direct evidence on the nature of conflict-related flows along this route in its ... -
Innovative Methods for Research on Social and Political Action in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
(IDS, 2017-06)Fragile and conflict-affected settings present particular challenges for researchers seeking to study the effect of social and political action (SPA). These challenges are not simply due to prevalent violence and conflict, ... -
Accountability Failures and the Decentralisation of Service Delivery in Pakistan
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Women in Local Government: The Pakistan Experience
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/09/2010)This article looks at women's representation in local government in Pakistan, focusing particularly on the introduction of a quota setting 33 per cent of the seats for women brought in under General Musharraf's Devolution ... -
Food Prices and the Politics of Hunger: Beneath Market and State
(01/11/2015)What accounts for the persistence of hunger and undernutrition in political and administrative systems which might be otherwise sensitive to the risk of food price volatility and market failure? If pre?empting food price ... -
The Emerging Social Contract: State? Citizen Interaction after the Floods of 2010 and 2011 in Southern Sindh, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article looks at the post?disaster context of Lower Sindh, a region devastated by super floods in 2010 and 2011, in an attempt to understand what government policies were implemented to assist people whose lives had ...