This blog post originally appeared in Open Society Foundations, in December, 2015. A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine had her mobile phone snatched at gunpoint. It happened while she was standing outside a friend’s house on a seemingly safe street in Lahore. But...

IDEAS Research Associate, Ammar Khalid & Kabeer Dawani, , Collective for Social Science Research Associate presented in a panel discussion based on their paper, “The Potholed Road to Decentralization: An Explorative Study on Service Delivery in Karachi”. The panel discussion and presentation took place...

We have known, for a fairly long time, that we can get swayed by short-term considerations and act against our long-term interests. We know we need to eat healthy and exercise to ensure a healthy future but many of us overeat and indulge in...