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Dr Sania Nishtar
Dr Sania Nishtar

  • March 24, 2023

    Subsidy gone wrong

    The interim governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have recently launched a free atta initiative. Rs53 billion worth of free atta is meant to...

  • February 21, 2023

    Targeting subsidies

    While headlines are dominated by the politics of power, a significant proportion of the country’s population is struggling to put food on the...

  • February 14, 2023

    Ehsaas Rehribaan stalled

    For 42 street vendors in 1-10 Islamabad, February 3 was supposed to be like any other workday. They were to set up their stalls and prepare for a...

  • July 28, 2022

    Privatization ordinance

    The cabinet has approved the ‘Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions Ordinance, 2022’ which gives the federal government sweeping powers to...

  • July 15, 2022

    Ehsaas Rashan Riayat

    Each year, Pakistan spends billions of rupees in untargeted federal and provincial subsidies across sectors. Much of these government transfers are...

  • April 30, 2022

    Reversing Ehsaas data analytics

    The government has signaled a policy intent to reverse a decision, which was taken in 2019, under the Ehsaas Governance and Integrity Policy through...

  • March 01, 2022

    Ehsaas Nashonuma scale-up

    Since 1967, which is when the first national nutrition survey was carried out in Pakistan, trend lines tracking nutrition outcomes have failed to...

  • January 29, 2022

    Ehsaas school stipends

    This week, the Ehsaas Taleemi Wazaif App has been made available on Google Play store. Through this App, anyone, anywhere can register students of...

  • January 22, 2022

    National socioeconomic registry

    Last week, we officially concluded door-to-door data collection for Ehsaas’ National Socioeconomic Survey. This extensive data collection exercise...

  • November 23, 2021

    Ehsaas Rashan subsidy

    The Ehsaas Rashan Riayat Program has been fast-tracked for implementation as one of the policy responses to address the recent wave of food...