Student’s Quarterly : Research and News – Volume 53 Number 1
From the Director’s Desk
It gives me pleasure to share with you that since 2008, we have been publishing the Quarterly Research & News magazine. Raheem ul Haque has been the dynamic team leader ably assisted by Saba Shahid, since 2016 while, I have played only the supervisory role. Over the years Quarterly has performed a very useful function of sharing the Centre’s activities and views of our guest speakers, while occasionally publishing research articles, policy briefs and consultative dialogue reports. Read More
Hospital Waste Management and Environmental Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Lahore
The Discussion Paper analyzes the policy framework for Lahore’s hazardous waste management with respect to hospitals and evaluates the extent to which disaster risk reduction is integrated into the implementation process. Whilst previous studies have evaluated the effectiveness of hospital waste management procedures in the country, this research brings to attention the environmental risks that can result from improper waste disposal. It argues that by building adaptive governance, policymaking that anticipates a matrix of development concerns, a public administration response can be cultivated that is able to respond to the dynamic governance challenges improper waste disposal raises.
How is the China Pakistan Media Collaboration Booming Under CPEC
This discussion paper aims to investigate three questions; how has media engagement between China and Pakistan taken shape under the CPEC canopy? Second, how is it transforming Pakistan’s mediascape and cinematic interactions? Third, how is ‘Islamic’ Pakistan and ‘Communist’ China’s cultural cohabitation evolving? This paper argues that media collaboration emerging through CPEC shows resilience of China-Pakistan ties and that it is an expression of Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) broader vision of expanding China’s culture and soft power across the ‘silk road’.
CPPG DISCUSSION PAPER: Bridging the Gender and Digital Divide in Post COVID-19 Pakistan: Empowering Women Through ICT
Digital technology opens up space for enormous economic opportunity and growth: can serve as a tool to bring about socio-political change, become an arena for entertainment, and serve as a medium for governance and law enforcement.
Research Fellow CPPG, Saba Shahid’s essay “Public Policy Lessons from Pakistan’s Experience with COVID-19” has been featured in Observer Research Foundation’s monograph Rebooting the World: Six Months of COVID-19. The monograph looks at countries hardest hit by the pandemic and the various economic, social and political dimensions of managing the disease.The essay which assesses Pakistan’s public policy challenges under the public health crisis can be found at the following link:
Ensuring an Equitable Distribution of the Covid-19 Vaccine in Pakistan
Abstract: This study anticipates the possible challenges that are likely to arise as the Covid-19 vaccine is developed and distribution mechanisms are designed across governments. More specifically, it critically explores the governance aspects the Pakistani leadership should be considering while developing a Covid-19 vaccination program. It argues that equitable distribution be the guiding objective of such a program and this implies that the program is built around principles of anticipatory governance, relies on evidence-based decision making, and that invests in public health programs that are inclusive and representative of the Pakistani population’s varying sociocultural, economic and health needs.
Hong Kong: Signposts Of New Cold War And The Emerging World Order
Abstract:The US and China are invoking threat and security concerns but the approach of the two is different. For the US, the issue is autonomy, freedom, and democracy. For the Chinese, it is terrorism, extremism and separatism from foreign collaboration. Thus Hong Kong is both a pretext and battleground for the Strategic Competition between the US and China. Click here to read or download this article
WORKING GROUP #1 REPORT ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS
The Centre for Public Policy and Governance has been actively participating in the Lauder Institute’s Global Think Tank Town Hall initiative since the second Town Hall on the 13th of May 2020. This is part of the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program of the University of Pennsylvania. CPPG was thus amongst the 36 scholars constituting Working Group 1 but also amongst the 181 members overall from 96 countries that contributed to preparing the Town Hall’s final report in just 30 days.
The Third Town Hall, “Solidarity and Solutions to Save Lives and Livelihoods” took place on the 30th of June 2020, in which CPPG was part of the panel of presenters representing the first of five Working Groups, namely Addressing the Public Health Crisis (co chaired by CIGI and ORF). The consequent report is now available and can be downloaded through the link below
”Water is the true wealth in a dry land; without it, land is worthless or nearly so. And if you control water, you control the land that depends upon it.” (Stegner in Gleick, 1993 a; 9) Click here to read full text article
COVID-19: Policy Options for Pakistan
The rapid spread of COVID-19 in Pakistan has led to several governance challenges. The public policy response during 2020 should prioritize relief in the short term, rehabilitation in the medium term and livelihood asset development in the long-term. Click here to read or download this policy document.
The CPPG’s monograph “China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Demands, Dividends and Directions” has been published and is available for purchase at the Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Room E-017 Elahi Building Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore. It is also available at Readings 12 K 2, Main Boulevard Gulberg, Block K Gulberg 2, Lahore and other leading bookstores. Click here for more detail
Changing Dynamics of China-India Relations: CPEC and Prospects for Pakistan
CPPG’s seventh and latest Position Paper “Chaning Dynamics of China-India Relations: CPEC and Prospects for Pakistan” authored by Dr. Saeed Shafqat and Saba Shahid is now available online.
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CPPG Professor and Founding Director Dr. Saeed Shafqat awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz
This discussion paper aims to investigate three questions; how has media engagement between China and Pakistan taken shape under the CPEC canopy? Second, how is it transforming Pakistan’s mediascape and cinematic interactions? Third, how is ‘Islamic’ Pakistan and ‘Communist’ China’s cultural cohabitation evolving? This paper argues that media collaboration emerging through CPEC shows resilience of China-Pakistan ties and that it is an expression of Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) broader vision of expanding China’s culture and soft power across the ‘silk road’.
