Blogs

  1. Asad Sayeed and Hussain Bux Mallah, Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Climate Action in Sindh Province, Pakistan. Collective Blog. September 2024.

    Keywords: Climate Change

  2. Asad Sayeed, Fiscal federalism in a hybrid state. Collective Blog. April 2024.

  3. Asad Sayeed, NFC: myths and realities. Collective Blog. March 2024.

  4. Haris Gazdar and Fuzail Khan, Election 2024 Voter Turnout. Collective Blog. February 2024.

  5. Haris Gazdar and Hussain Bux Mallah, What disrupts the stable but non-inclusive patronage-based political machine? Collective Blog. February 2024.

  6. Haris Gazdar and Hussain Bux Mallah, Low turnouts in competitive elections. (Using the prism of social exclusion). Collective Blog. February 2024.

  7. Haris Gazdar, ECP, NADRA and Electoral rolls. Collective Blog. February 2024.

  8. Haris Gazdar, Voter Turnout Trends and Data in Pakistan. Collective Blog. February 2024.

  9. Asiya Jawed and Haleema Hasan, 2020 in Review: Pakistani Students and the Pandemic. Collective Blog. March 2021.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  10. Haleema Hasan and Asiya Jawed, Why COVID-19 is Fatal for Children. Collective Blog. December 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  11. Asiya Jawed, Healthcare Workers’ Mobilization in Pakistan. Collective Blog. November 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  12. Haleema Hasan, Absent again: Women and the Covid-19 response in Pakistan. Collective Blog. September 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  13. Haleema Hasan, Lives and Livelihoods: The Inevitable Defeats of Pakistan’s Poor. Collective Blog. July 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  14. Komal Qidwai, On the Frontlines: The Strain on Healthcare Providers. Collective Blog. June 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  15. Kabeer Dawani and Rehan Jamil, Covid-19 and the Limits of Pakistan's Fractured Welfare System. Collective Blog. June 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19

  16. Asad Sayeed, Economic Dynamics and Resource Envelopes. Collective Blog. May 2020.

    Keywords: Covid-19, Economy

  17. Haris Gazdar, Coronavirus Lockdown: Should We Prioritize Lives or Livelihoods? Collective Blog.

    Keywords: Covid-19, Economy

  18. Komal Qidwai, Covid-19 Impact on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Pakistan. Collective Blog.

  19. Collective For Social Science Research, 2019 in Review: Our Top 5 Blogs. Collective Blog. December 2019.

  20. Ayesha Khan, Where Does the Global Women’s Movement Go Now? Collective Blog. December 2019.

  21. Asiya Jawed, Performative Protests in Pakistan. Collective Blog. November 2019.

  22. Muhammad Ali Jan, Not so Easy Business. Collective Blog. October 2019.

  23. Komal Qidwai, Women Leaders in Action: Lady Health Workers’ Protests. Collective Blog. August 2019.

  24. Shehrzadae Moeed and Adil Sayeed, HIV in Pakistan: Who knows, who cares? Collective Blog. August 2019.

  25. Kabeer Dawani, Low Cost, Low Access? A Misplaced Focus on Drug Pricing in Pakistan. Collective Blog. June 2019.

    Keywords: Economy, Health

  26. Ayesha Mysorewala and Saba Aslam, The language of disability. Collective Blog. May 2019.

  27. Ayesha Khan, Women activists and their turn to the courts. Collective Blog. May 2019.

  28. Kabeer Dawani, The Plight of Domestic Workers in Pakistan. Collective Blog. March 2019.

    Keywords: Gender, Labour, minimum wage

  29. Zonia Yousuf Baltistani, Challenges of Empowerment for Women in Politics: Resources, Voice and Agency. Collective Blog. February 2019.

  30. Hussain Bux Mallah, Using wood as fuel. Collective Blog. January 2019.

  31. Saba Aslam, Towards a new regional agenda: bringing visibility to rural women in South Asia. Collective Blog. January 2019.

  32. Sana Naqvi, Deconstruction of #MeToo and the new-age feminist movement. Collective Blog. December 2018.

  33. Kabeer Dawani and Ayesha Mysorewala, The Chickens and Eggs Dilemma: Can Poultry Transfers Reduce Poverty? Collective Blog. December 2018.

    Keywords: Development, Poverty

  34. Natasha Ansari, Women's Mobility and Labor Force Participation in Karachi: Some Preliminary Observations. Collective Blog. November 2018.

  35. Ali Ahmad, Making the most out of democracy. Collective Blog. November 2018.

    Keywords: Democracy, Politics

  36. Ayesha Khan, How Aid has helped Pakistan’s Women’s Movement achieve Political Breakthroughs. From Poverty to Power, Oxfam Blog. October 2018.

    Keywords: Aid, Gender, Politics

  37. Saba Aslam, Women agricultural workers and their rights. Collective Blog. October 2018.

  38. Ayesha Khan, Which is worse: corruption or misogyny? Collective Blog. August 2018.

    Keywords: Democracy, Politics, Women

  39. Mishal Khan, "Slaves" and "Bondsmen" after Abolition: Grey Areas and Missed Opportunities.. Collective Blog. July 2018.

  40. Ayesha Mysorewala, Of Market Queens and Women's Empowerment. Collective Blog. July 2018.

  41. Asad Sayeed, In the midst of a crisis. Collective Blog. June 2018.

  42. Sana Naqvi, Identity Search: Women and Social Media Politics. Collective Blog. June 2018.

  43. Marium Ibrahim, What Does it Take to Change Your Mind? Collective Blog. May 2018.

  44. Haris Gazdar, Lets Talk About... Wheat Flour Fortification. Collective Blog. May 2018.

  45. Rashid Mehmood and Natasha Ansari, The Dairy Reform That Wasn't. Collective Blog. April 2018.

  46. Kabeer Dawani, The Mystery of Political Will. Collective Blog. April 2018.

  47. Hussain Bux Mallah, Teach a Man how to Fish? Social Transfers in a 'Hungry' Nation. Collective Blog. March 2018.

  48. Ayesha Khan, Rest in Power, Asma Jahangir. Collective Blog. February 2018.

  49. Hussain Bux Mallah, Extending Agricultural Policies to Women. Collective Blog. February 2018.

  50. Marium Ibrahim, Empathy for Everyone? Collective Blog. January 2018.

  51. Amna Akhtar, Invisible work, visible harm. Collective Blog. December 2017.

  52. Noorulain Masood, Karachi's Knifeman Can Stab Us, Not Silence Us. Collective Blog. November 2017.

    Keywords: Violence, Women

  53. Saba Aslam, Ag-Nutrition Policy: Where are the Women? Collective Blog. November 2017.

    Keywords: Agriculture, Women

  54. Alan Dangour, Sustainable Farming Systems for Food and Nutrition Security. Collective Blog. October 2017.

  55. Ayesha Khan, Pakistani politics: Where are the women? Collective Blog. October 2017.

    Keywords: Politics, Women

  56. Marium Ibrahim, Fake plastic trees. Collective Blog. October 2017.

  57. Sana Naqvi, Jihadi Vogue. Collective Blog. September 2017.

    Keywords: Democracy, Terrorism, Women

  58. Marium Ibrahim, The Issue with English. Collective Blog. August 2017.

    Keywords: Education, Language

  59. Ayesha Khan, Pakistan's Jirgas: Buying Peace at the Expense of Women's Rights? Collective Blog. July 2017.

  60. Saba Aslam, Connecting Research to Ongoing Debates. Collective Blog. July 2017.

  61. Hussain Bux Mallah, What Leads to Behavioural Change Amongst Rural Women? Collective Blog. June 2017.

  62. Sidra Mazhar, Patriarchy: No Silver Lining. Collective Blog. June 2017.

  63. Saba Aslam, Beyond a Shared Language. Collective Blog. May 2017.

  64. Sidra Mazhar, Who Works and Why: Detangling Women's Agricultural Work. Collective Blog. May 2017.

    Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Women

  65. Marium Ibrahim, Does Empowerment Work Really Empower? Collective Blog. May 2017.

    Keywords: Development, Economy, Women

  66. Ebad Pasha, Access and Empowerment in the Age of Smartphones. Collective Blog. March 2017.

    Keywords: Karachi

  67. Haris Gazdar, What Women Do. Collective Blog. March 2017.

  68. Hussain Bux Mallah, Aid: Who Gets Credit? Collective Blog. March 2017.

    Keywords: Development

  69. Marium Ibrahim, When Help Hurts. Collective Blog. February 2017.

    Keywords: Research Uptake, Women

  70. Azmat Budhani, The Hurdle of Hesitance. Collective Blog. February 2017.

  71. Asad Sayeed, Flying Low: Everyone Seems to Have a Solution for PIA. Collective Blog. January 2017.

  72. Nigel Poole, Haris Gazdar and Mar Maestre, Understanding Agri-Food Value Chains for Nutrition. Collective Blog. January 2017.

  73. Haris Gazdar, Ending Poverty - Drama or Whimper? Collective Blog. December 2016.

    Keywords: Politics, Poverty

  74. Natasha Ansari and Ebad Pasha, Today's Lyari. Collective Blog. November 2016.

  75. Haris Gazdar, Violence and Tolerance. Collective Blog. Novermber 2016.

    Keywords: Tolerance, Violence

  76. Amna Akhtar, Do we give back? Collective Blog. November 2016.

    Keywords: Community Engagement, , LANSA,

  77. Hussain Bux Mallah, Mind Your Language. Collective Blog. October 2016.

  78. Samar Zuberi and Rashid Mehmood, Plugging the Gaps between Farm and Fork. Collective Blog. October 2016.

  79. Collective's Research To Action Team, Busting the Myth of a 'Hatta Katta' Pakistan. Collective Blog. September 2016.

  80. Kabeer Dawani, Is the Minimum Wage a 'Living Wage' in Pakistan? Collective Blog. August 2016.

    Keywords: Employment, Labour

  81. Haris Gazdar and Ayesha Khan, Coercion Inside the Home. Collective Blog. August 2016.

  82. Noorulain Masood, Immortalizing Edhi. Collective Blog. July 2016.

  83. Sidra Mazhar, My Choice or Not? Collective Blog. July 2016.

  84. Haris Gazdar, Imagining Poverty. Collective Blog. June 2016.

  85. Azmat Budhani, 'Alien' Garbage Pickers of Karachi. Collective Blog. June 2016.

  86. Saba Aslam, When the respondents questioned. Collective Blog. June 2016.

  87. Hussain Bux Mallah, Okara Dispossessions: From Jhanglees to Murabba Holders to Faltus. Collective Blog. June 2016.

  88. Noorulain Masood, Celebrating Women of Pakistan. Collective Blog. April 2016.

  89. Amna Akhtar, Making your work count: it's all about impact. Collective Blog. April 2016.

  90. Hussain Bux Mallah, Patriarchy and Women's Work. Collective Blog. April 2016.

  91. Kabeer Dawani, More Decentralization, Please!. Collective Blog. March 2016.

  92. Haris Gazdar, Hunger and Undernutrition-Knowing Versus Feeling. Collective Blog. March 2016.

  93. Saba Aslam, Caste and I. Collective Blog. February 2016.

  94. Asad Sayeed, Who Benefits from CPEC? Collective Blog. February 2016.

    Keywords: CPEC, Economy

  95. Haris Gazdar and Noorulain Masood, Passive or Non-Violent? Collective Blog. January 2016.

    Keywords: Terrorism, Violence

  96. Asad Sayeed and Kabeer Dawani, How Trade with India Helped Lollywood. Collective Blog. December 2015.

    Keywords: Media, Trade

  97. Ayesha Khan, The Price of Political Islam. Collective Blog. December 2015.

  98. Haris Gazdar, Politics and Social Change. Collective Blog. December 2015.

  99. Azmat Budhani and Hussain Bux Mallah, How Old Are You? Collective Blog. November 2015.

  100. Sidra Mazhar, Quality Measures. Collective Blog. October 2015.

    Keywords: Data Measurement, LANSA

  101. Amna Akhtar, Can Social Protection Programmes Lead to Greater Economic Agency for Women in Agriculture? Collective Blog. October 2015.

  102. Samar Zuberi, Making Value Chains Work for Little Children. Collective Blog. October 2015.

  103. Hussain Bux Mallah and Haris Gazdar, Milk and Money. Collective Blog. September 2015.

  104. Haris Gazdar, Women's Work and Wages. Collective Blog. August 2015.

  105. Kabeer Dawani, The Chingchi's Tryst with Karachi. Collective Blog. August 2015.

  106. Ayesha Tarek, Hospitality: the City vs. the Village. Collective Blog. July 2015.

  107. Ayesha Mysorewala, Faced with Hunger: Durable Households or Resilient Networks of Women? Collective Blog. July 2015.

  108. Hussain Bux Mallah, Mother Karachi and the Mother. Collective Blog. June 2015.

  109. Sara Malkani, The Government's Obligation to Uphold the Right to Maternal Health. Collective Blog. June 2015.

  110. Asad Sayeed, The Developmental Role of the Central Bank. Collective Blog. June 2015.

  111. Haris Gazdar, Engaging Disciplines. Collective Blog. May 2015.

  112. Ayesha Khan, Bringing Real Change for Women. Collective Blog. April 2015.

    Keywords: Development, Gender

  113. Hussain Bux Mallah, Roma Left Us!. Collective Blog. April 2015.

  114. Hassan Zaib Abbasi, Hamza Alavi Can Lead You Out of Crisis. Collective Blog. April 2015.

  115. Azmat Budhani, Enumerating Success: Designing the Benazir Income Support Programme. Collective Blog. March 2015.

    Keywords: BISP, Social Protection

  116. Samar Zuberi, Research (uptake) - so what? Collective Blog. February 2015.

  117. Natasha Ansari, Rights Beyond Property: The Boohars of Rohi. Collective Blog. February 2015.

  118. Ayesha Khan, DNA and the Pursuit of Justice. Collective Blog. January 2015.

  119. Yasser Kureshi, The Taliban in FATA: Resistance Fighters or Political Entrepreneurs? Collective Blog. January 2015.

  120. Ilma Ghouse, Karachi is Open to Survey. Collective Blog. December 2014.

  121. Haris Gazdar, Ameliorate or Leverage? Collective Blog. December 2014.

  122. Haris Gazdar, But That's Another Blog. Collective Blog. November 2014.

  123. Asad Sayeed and Kabeer Dawani, Debating Political Economy of the Budget. Collective Blog. November 2014.

  124. Ayesha Khan, "The black spot on the radiant face of Islam" : Muslim Family Laws Ordinances 1961. Collective Blog. October 2014.

    Keywords: Gender, Legislation

  125. Mysbah Balagamwala and Haris Gazdar, Challenges of a Different Kind - The Role of Food Prices in the Lives of the Poorest in Pakistan. Collective/IDS Governance and Development Blog. September 2014.

  126. Haris Gazdar, Flood 2014 - Some Lessons from 2010. Collective Blog. September 2014.

    Keywords: Climate Change

  127. Samar Zuberi, Scaling up Food Fortification in Pakistan: A Feasible Option. Collective/LANSA Blog. July 2014.

  128. Samar Zuberi, The Beginning of a Dialogue: Responsive Agriculture-Nutrition Research. Collective/LANSA Blog. May 2014.

  129. Asad Sayeed and Thomas Kirk, Institutional Vacuum, Violence and the State: The Case of Swat, Pakistan. JSRP Blog. December 2013.

    Keywords: Conflict, State

  130. Haris Gazdar, Considering Fragility: A Disconnect between Agriculture and Nutrition. Collective/SecureNutrition Blog. July 2013.

  131. Mysbah Balagamwala, Strikes and Fuel Shortages - Life of a Daily Wage Earner in Karachi. Collective/Oxfam Policy and Practice Blog. June 2013.