Research Fellows and Graduates of GIDS to participate in the 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance

Research fellows and graduates of GIDS will be participating in the 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance to be held at Yunus Center for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK from the 20th till 22nd June, 2022. Details of the participants are given below: Five paper presentations by: Ms. Almazia Shahzad, Research Fellow, GIDS Paper titled “The Need to Rethink Microfinance” Ms. Samar Quddus, Research Fellow, […]

Reshaping Norms: A New Way Forward

Executive Summary The uneven recovery from the pandemic has left countries in South Asia with multiple policy challenges, which are exacerbated by the impact of the war in Ukraine. While several countries are navigating rising inflation and growing difficulties to finance fiscaldeficits and trade deficits, the region must also chart a new way forward to address rising[…]

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An economic catastrophe

By S. Akbar Zaidi Published in DAWN on April 11, 2022 PAKISTAN has been brought to the edge of an economic catastrophe that it has not seen for decades. While the recent ‘constitutional fraud’, and the political crisis created by the now former PTI government, is a major cause, it is not the only one. The responsibility[…]