With the refusal of both the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE to relent on the question of allowing humanitarian aid to Jaffna, the civil war has reached a new and protracted stage. Despite the...
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The success in pension reform will depend on a greater degree of professionalism in the design and governance of provident and pension fund organisations such as the Employee Provident Fund...
There is no need or reason for Pakistanis to want democracy. The military has seldom had to face opposition in coming to power.
Financial inclusion is important for improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. Financial exclusion, in terms of lack of access to credit...
What history will emerge from the Bush wars is still uncertain. But it grows clearer with each passing day that the Bush administration must now grapple with the reality of defeat.
Musharraf and his generals are determined to stay in power. They will protect the source of their power (the army); they will accommodate those they must (the Americans); and they will pander to the...
There is growing opposition, more ironically, from Republican law-makers, to the George Bush administration's contravention of the Geneva conventions in its "war on terror"
The killing of Akbar Bugti, the rebellious tribal chief and leader of the Baloch nationalist Jamhoori Watan Party by state security forces in his mountain hideout marks an important watershed in the...
The revolutionary euphoria of the 1960s may have waned in Cuba, yet many Cubans continue to believe that the revolution and what it achieved was important and that the values and institutions it...
Two major recent developments in Bangladesh are likely to have an impact on the upcoming elections. One is the decision of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party to enter into an understanding with...
The independence of the central bank in a market-oriented economy is no longer a disputable issue in theory but problems arise in regard to the ways in which to achieve it. As a practitioner, I would...
With the war in Sri Lanka intensifying in recent weeks, political space has opened up for assassins to hit those described in military parlance as "soft targets". The assassination of intellectual...
American public discourse simply cannot accept to what extent drug use, illicit and legal, is now embedded in everyday sociality.
The classical and western understanding of civil society suggests that by being "against the state" in some way, and especially by being against an autocratic and undemocratic state, civil society is...
Liquid securities markets are a core goal of financial sector reforms, and this has two dimensions: low impact cost and high resilience. We employ elements of evidence to suggest that equity market...
