Publications
Living Wage in Pakistan: Estimates, Adoption and Policy Challenges
This paper explores the living wage in Pakistan by providing consolidated and updated living wage estimates for two rural regions and one urban region of Pakistan. It contextualizes the living wage estimates with respect to other poverty and wage indicators and highlight gaps between these indicators and living wage estimates. The paper then examines the existing policy framework on returns to labour in general and minimum wages in particular and demonstrates its shortcomings in ensuring decent wages for workers. Finally, it concludes by discussing possible policy choices within the prevailing political economy milieu of Pakistan.
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Compilation of Election 2024 Data based on Form 47 published by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)
Election 2024 data, compiled by Collective for Social Science Research using Form 47 released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), is now available for further analysis. This resource is being made publicly available for researchers and observers as an as a pdf and excel file. This dataset was downloaded from the ECP website on 12th February, 2024 and has not been updated to include any changes made after this date. We have carried out some data checks but apologise in advance for any remaining data entry errors. Please email at: election2024.cssr@gmail.com for any discrepancies and comments. The following data from Form 47 have been included here: registered voters total, registered voters women, registered voters men, turnout total, turnout women, turnout men, votes polled by winning candidate, votes polled by runner-up, rejected votes and turnout rate (%) as reported in Form 47.
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Political Participation in Pakistan: Through the Prism of Social Exclusion
This working paper attempts to answer this question and related subsidiary questions about possible entry points for a more inclusive democracy. Its main contribution to our current state of knowledge is to approach political participation from the prism of social exclusion - or an understanding of social disadvantage associated with gender, class, social identity and personal circumstance.
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Agricultural Growth, Hunger and Poverty - Historical Evolution of Agrifood Systems In Pakistan
This study probes assumptions which underpin current thinking about the transformation of Pakistan’s agri-food systems by identifying and examining key turning points from the 1840s onwards in sub-regions of the Indus irrigated plains. It highlights historical antecedents of contemporary agri-food systems including: the political-strategic goals of colonial reformers, origins of inter-regional disparities, the elevation and marginalisation of various social groups and agrarian classes, ambivalence towards markets and market-players, and the entrenched political economy of land and water resources.
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Federalism in a hybrid regime: the 18th amendment in Pakistan
This report on hybrid governance and federalism in Pakistan addresses the impact of the 18th Amendment in enhancing political, administrative and fiscal federalism in Pakistan. The Report also analyzes how the 18th Amendment has impacted governance and changed the nature and extent of hybridity in Pakistan’s political system.
This research was conducted in 2022 and completed in 2023. However, given the pace of developments since then, we reflect in our conclusion on hurdles and opportunities that hybrid governance will create for federalism in Pakistan.
This study was supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
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Policing in hybrid regimes: provincial autonomy, policing, and the 18th amendment in Pakistan
This brief explores two key questions: First, how is provincial autonomy undermined in the field of public policing in hybrid regimes and second, the extent to which the 18th amendment has helped curtail hybridity in a pluralized policing landscape? We present our findings primarily through the cases of Sindh and Punjab, but also provide some discussion of policing dynamics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
This research was conducted in 2022 and completed in 2023 and was supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
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Fiscal federalism in a hybrid state: the case of Pakistan
This brief, written in April 2023, addresses political economy issues pertaining to fiscal federalism in Pakistan. In order to provide historical context, this brief first forays into the history of fiscal federalism in Pakistan. We then outline the gains made through the 7th NFC award to fiscal federalism and assesses different critiques and pushbacks that have come forth in the last decade on fiscal devolution. We subsequently analyse the political economy of resistance to the pushbacks against fiscal devolution in the last decade and also delves into probabilities on the pushbacks succeeding in the foreseeable future.
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Flood 2022
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Traditional municipal sweepers in Faisalabad and Karachi
Research Strand 03 (September 2022). LSE Cities Working Papers..
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Living Wage Update Report: Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa June 2022
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Living Wage Update Report: Rural and Urban Northeast Punjab June 2022
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Women and protest politics in Pakistan
Gender and Development 29/2-3, pp. 391-410. DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2021.1981623
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Living Income Report: Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Rural Livelihood Programs in Pakistan: Lessons from the past as guide to the future
Study conducted for the Rural Livelihoods in South Asia Program, World Bank, New Delhi.
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Pakistan: Gendered Protests During Covid-19
Paper at Panel "Navigating Civic Spaces Under Covid", Istr Global Virtual Conference
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Being Realistic About The Contribution of Private Businesses to public Nutrition Objectives
Food Chain, 9:2, 91–102, Practical action publishing.
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Living Wage Update Report: Rural and Urban Northeast Punjab December 2019
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Living Wage Update Report: Rural and Urban Northeast Punjab December 2017
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Living Wage Report Urban and Rural Pakistan - Sialkot, North Eastern Punjab
This report on living wages for rural and urban Sialkot Pakistan by Asad Sayeed and Kabeer Dawani provides valuable information for an important Pakistani manufacturing center. It also provides insights on how to estimate living wages. It is especially relevant for the soccer ball (football) industry and sports ball industry in general, because Sialkot and footballs are almost synonymous as 70% of all hand stitched footballs in the world are made in Sialkot.
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The Rise of Jihadi Militancy in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
In A. Sundar and N. Sundar eds. Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development. New Delhi: Sage India
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