NFC at a CROSSROADS Revisiting Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan

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Table of Contents

• It’s Time to Renew the NFC Award — For a Fairer, Stronger Pakistan
  – Ahsan Iqbal
• The NFC Puzzle: Balancing Equity and Survival
  – Dr. Nadeem Javaid
• Revisiting Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan
  – Dr. Kaiser Bengali
• Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan: Economic Impact of the 7th NFC Award
  – Dr. Aisha Ghaus-Pasha
• Ethnic Cleavages and the Implementation of 18th Amendment
  – Dr. Karim Khan
• Pakistan’s Fiscal Trap: Breaking Free from Endless Consolidation
  – Dr. Mohammad Ahmed Zubair
• Rethinking NFC
  – Dr. Idrees Khawaja
• Why provincial revenue mobilisation central to the NFC Framework?
  – Hina Shaikh
• Beyond the NFC Award: Pakistan’s Unfinished Devolution to Local Governments
  – Dr. Usama Ehsan Khan and Uzma Aftab
• Fiscal Resource Distribution: Criteria, Incentives and Institutional Mechanism.
  A Comparison between Neighbors
  – Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad and Zahanat Hussain
• A Case for Climate-Centric NFC
  – Moaaz Manzoor
• Pakistan’s Fiscal Federalism: From Stalemate to Solution –
  Charting a Cooperative Fiscal Future
  – Saba Asghar Bhutta
• Speech of President of Reformistan on the 11th NFC Award
  – Dr. Nasir Iqbal