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2026:160: Shrimp Aquaculture as Pakistan's Next Blue Economy Opportunity: Lessons from Dhabeji Farm

Usama Abdul Rauf and Saima Perveen

2026:159: Completing Pakistan's White Oil Pipeline Backbone: Promise and Risks of MTT-WOP

Bilal Aftab

2026:158: Energy Transition: What It Means, What the Evidence Shows, and What It Implies for Pakistan

Shahzada M. Naeem Nawaz

2026:157: Stalled Transitions, Constrained Choices: Evidence from HIES 2024-25 and the Conditions for Pakistan's Demographic Dividend

Saima Bashir

2026:156: Protecting Developing Minds in the Digital Age: A Bibliometric Analysis of Mobile Phone Use and Child Well-Being

Eman Qadeer

2026:155: Digital Literacy in Pakistan: The Current State and Key Challenges

Maryam Hafeez

2026:154: Understanding Fake News and Its Rise Amid Crisis

Fizzah Khalid Butt

2026:153: Work from Home (WfH): Challenges, Monitoring, and Shared Responsibility

Fahd Zulfiqar

2026:152: From Petrodollar to Petro yuan: Global Macroeconomic Transformation and Pakistan's Economic Stability

Madiha Riaz

2026:151: Urban Sprawl and Haphazard Growth in Karachi: A Reflection of Poor Urban Planning

Nisar Ali

2026:150: Productivity in Pakistan: Trends and Determinants

Omer Siddique

2026:149: From Net Metering to Net Billing: Tariff Design and Distribution-Sector Stress in Pakistan

Rubina Ilyas and Bilal Aftab

2026:148: Crisis at Sea: Strengthening Port Transparency to Safeguard Trade Stability

Saba Anwar and Aneela Zubair

2026:147: The EU-India FTA and Pakistan's Export Competitiveness

Junaid Ahmed and Wajid Islam

2026:146: Pakistan and the Iran-US Conflict

Karim Khan and Fida Muhammad Khan

2026:145: Beyond the Remittance Shock: Domestic Layoffs and the Coming Unemployment Crisis

Muhammad Jehangir Khan, Muhammad Ajmal Khan and Nasir Iqbal

2026:144: Road Safety in Pakistan: A Critical Analysis of the National Road Safety Strategy

Saba Anwar, Bilal Aftab and Muhammad Zaman

2026:143: Shrinking the Shadow Economy: How Financial Inclusion can shrink the Shadow Economy

Usama Abdul Rauf and Rafia Ali

2026:142: Balochistans Skills Gap and CPEC Job Potential: A Human Capital Assessment

Usama Abdul Rauf and Batoora Achakzai

2026:141: Anthropology in or of Development? On Tracing Pragmatic Relevance of Anthropology in Development Studies

Fahd Zulfiqar

2026:140: Unlocking ASEAN through Vietnam: A Strategic Path for Pakistans Trade Diversification

Adnan Akram

2026:139: E-Governance in Pakistan: Where Pakistan Stands and Where It Can Go?

Nisar Ali

2026:138: Reclaiming the Flow: A New Urban Water Vision for Pakistan

Ussama Kiyani

2025:135: Circular Debt and Electricity Tariffs: Unequal Burdens across Household Quintiles in Pakistan

Rubina Ilyas

2025:134: Tobacco in Transition: Global Practices, Regional Insights, and Pakistan's Policy Imperative

Mehwish Mumtaz

2025:133: Gendered Pathways to Crime

Fida Muhammad Khan and Zainab Fatima

2025:132: The Poverty Illusion: When Numbers Distort Reality

Nasir Iqbal

2025:131: Unlocking Climate Finance: Potential Carbon Credits from Renewable Energy

Usama Abdul Rauf and Muhammad Ali

2024:130: Fiscal Policy and Austerity in Pakistan; Reduce Expenditures or Raise Taxes?

Yasir Khan

2024:129: GVCs and Trade Reforms

Muhammad Zeshan and Tehmina Asad

2024:128: From Crisis to Reforms in Argentina: Learning for Pakistan

Nadeem Ul Haque and Nasir Iqbal

2024:127: Energy Efficiency Prospects in the Textile Sector

Anjeela Khurram and Uzma Zia Zia

2024:126: The Economy of Sacrificed Animals

Muhammad Ali

2024:125: Land Titles: A Missing Basic Elemental Of The Real Estate Market

Azwar Muhammad Aslam and Ahmed Waqar Qasim

2024:124: An Enigma Of Net Metering

Afia Malik and Ayesha Rehman

2024:123: How to Ameliorate Drug Shortages?

Shahid Mehmood

2024:122: Principal Accounting Officer Issues and Challenges

Nadeem Ul Haque, Khurram Khan, Nadeem Khan and Hassan Rasool

2024:121: Not Elite Capture but Capture by Colonial-made Elite

Nadeem Ul Haque and Fahd Zulfiqar

2024:120: Forestrys Economic Contribution Is Beyond Just Wood

Shujaat Farooq, Durre Nayab, Saddam Hussein and Nabila Kunwal

2024:119: Wood Demand And Supply In Pakistan

Shujaat Farooq, Durre Nayab, Saddam Hussein and Nabila Kunwal

2024:118: Forest Based Tourism Services In Pakistan

Shujaat Farooq, Durre Nayab, Saddam Hussein and Nabila Kunwal

2024:117: Forests Indirect Services For Watersheds: The Case Of Mangla Dam

Shujaat Farooq, Durre Nayab, Saddam Hussein and Nabila Kunwal

2024:116: What Do We Know About The Online Freelancing Market In Pakistan

Ahmed Waqar Qasim and Azwar Aslam

2024:115: Pakistans Urban Water Challenges and Prospects

Nazam Maqbool

2024:114: Batala Engineering Company (BECO): A Tragic Story of Plummet from the Apex

Anjeela Khurram and Saba Anwar

2024:113: Towards Sustainable Range Resource Management In Pakistan

Shujaat Farooq, Durre Nayab, Saddam Hussein and Nabila Kunwal

2024:112: Pakistans Emigration: Trends and Insights

Junaid Ahmed

2024:111: Challenges And Opportunities Of The Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Project (TBTTPP): A Case Study Of The Ex-FATA (Pakistan)

Nazam Maqbool

2024:110: Plots, Privileges and Protocols

Shahid Mahmood

2023:106: Digital Dialogues vs Paper Promises: Manifesto Alignment

Abbas Murtaza Maken and Izzah Salam