Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abbas Moosvi
Research Fellow

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Contribution to PIDE Research

Rethinking Social Protection: The Case for a Universal Basic Income

August 2023

Economics is always political

June 2023

Populism: the illusion of change

June 2023

Reclaiming the realm of politics

May 2023

Street Vending: An Introduction and Overview (Policy)

May 2023

Rise, ye children

May 2023

On freedom

April 2023

Elections: necessary but woefully insufficient

March 2023

Structural adjustment flops

March 2023

The decimation of higher education

February 2023

Enough Tinkering At The Margins

February 2023

Choking Civil Society

January 2023

Governance: A Hard Reset

January 2023

PPP’s Progressive Pivot?

December 2022

Whither The Public Intellectual?

December 2022

COP(-out) 27

November 2022

Death to neoliberalism

November 2022

Identity politics and its discontents

October 2022

Therapy Industrial Complex

October 2022

Foreign Aid Effectiveness: The Relationship Between Aid Inflows and Economic Growth

September 2022

Climate justice and reparations overdue

September 2022

Free markets are a fiction

August 2022

Illusory Independence

August 2022

PAKISTANIYAT: A Muddled Identity By Abbas T. Moosvi (Article)

August 2022

Discourse Debates (Article)

August 2022

Theatre of politics

July 2022

Hotel and Restaurant Industries of Pakistan: Opportunities and Market Dynamics

July 2022

Agreement between Pakistan and IMF: Has the policy of ‘Let’s go IMF’ by each government been beneficial or harmful for Pakistan?

July 2022

Epidemic of nonsense work

July 2022

Gimmickry of neoclassical economics

June 2022

A Letter to the Left

June 2022

Of elites, by elites, for elites

June 2022

No Confidence in no confidence

Introducing Debates

Literature as a Creative Industry

June 2022

Arts and Culture Centers as Catalysts for Urban Vibrancy

May 2022

Incubating grassroots politics

May 2022

Understanding Elite Capture

May 2022

Khan: anti-imperial or just anti-West?

April 2022

Local research for local problems

April 2022

All downstream democracy

March 2022

Criminalisation of street vendors

March 2022

Student unions now

February 2022

Music As A Creative Industry

February 2022

The kids aren’t alright

February 2022

Primary School Literacy: A Case Study of the Educate a Child Initiative

February 2022

The war on ordinary people

January 2022

Extraction, thy name is development

January 2022

Pakistan’s stranglehold on artistic expression

December 2021

Education Beyond the Classroom: Arts and Culture

December 2021

IMF, Aid, and Development: A Historical Backdrop

December 2021

Pakistan’s corporate sector and ‘seth’ culture

December 2021

Electoral Politics in Pakistan: Law, Parties, and the Need for Innovation

November 2021

Comedy as a Creative Industry

October 2021

Adversity for Afghan Women: But Can Pakistanis Complain?

October 2021

Street Vending: An Introduction and Overview

September 2021

Afghan Refugees: A Looming Crisis

August 2021

Code Red for Humanity: IPPC’s Latest Warning on Climate Changing

August 2021