Asad Sayeed
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Economist, Researcher and Consultant on social and economic policy @CollectiveKHI. Member from Sindh on the 11th National Finance Commission, Pakistan.
Karachi
Joined February 2013
“They’ve never met a poor person. They’ve never lived in deprived areas.” Ha-Joon Chang explains why economics is too important to be left to economists. https://t.co/ZUYYuuM0UL
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Thanks @KhurramHusain for this level-headed analysis. Welcome reality and common sense check on all the cringy and bigoted stuff doing the rounds on WhatsApp groups and mainstream media. https://t.co/clRGFjxQT2
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There is much that each provincial government needs to do to increase preparedness for the natural disasters hitting the country.
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All three ills mentioned in this tweet - fiscal ruin, boom/bust cycles, elite "awash in cash" - predate the NFC Award. The Award did not cause them. Local govts are good, but rolling back the 18th Amendment and NFC award is not required for them.
In fashionable elite circles it is sacrilegious to speak against the NFC award and the 18th amendment. But a lopsided NFC has ruined Pakistan’s fiscally and caused huge boom and bust cycles. And 18th amendment’s devolution of power has only meant ruling elites awash with cash at
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Minister Ahsan Iqbal is utterly wrong saying that NFC places 'undue burden on Centre' Burden is self-inflicted by fed govt's failure to reduce its bloated non-dev expenditure Solution is in respecting the 18th Amendment n abolishing fed Ministries that are in provincial domain
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Building on its ongoing success in Sindh, SPHF has been mandated by the @GovtofPakistan to lead housing efforts in Balochistan and KP, marking a key milestone in its mission to empower flood-affected communities across Pakistan. #SindhPeoplesHousing #ApniZameenApnaMakaan
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Same old tired discredited retread written in the same old patronising language to attract the same old extractive audiences whose complacency and arrogance have led to the rise of the far right in the West
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💥New publication📃 w/ @asad_sayeed: How much does it cost for a worker and their family to live a basic but decent life in Pakistan? https://t.co/bLEd9qVxg0
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How much does it cost for a worker and their family to live a basic but decent life in Pakistan? This paper explores this question using the concept of a living wage. The paper provides consolidated...
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Thread on our recently published working paper on living wage estimates in Pakistan and the broader wage and social policy possibilities in Pakistan to reduce the gap between the minimum wage and the living wage.
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. 1/3 Link to the paper: https://t.co/5I9IK019Or
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🧵1/5 Acemoglu or Paul Baran’s Prize? Acemoglu’s argument on settler versus non-settler colonialism was first presented, in almost the same language, by the Marxist economist Paul Baran decades before the publication of AJR 2002 in his book The Political Economy of Growth.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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In partnership with the @The_IGC , we explore the impact of specific climate vulnerabilities that Sindh has suffered from in the recent past & assess policy responses that are needed for appropriate mitigation strategies. Read the full blog here:
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Excellent 👏🏽. This is how public spending creates positive externalities for the poor. Not frivolous borrowing and spending on jobless, glamorous projects that only indulge the rich and the middle classes.
According to the @ilo’s report, 1 million jobs will be created in just 2 years, through SPHF's initiative. Read more in the latest ILO report: https://t.co/Bu4ZBvdNM8
#SindhPeoplesHousing
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We are hiring for the position of Research Assistant! Details are in the picture below. Send your CV to info@researchcollective.org by July 22, 2024. Please note that selected applicants will be called for an interview.
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This time not to be Issy, but am sure success beckons in the future for you. You made us all proud!
Wasn’t quite to be this time but I’m very proud to have achieved Labour’s best ever result in the constituency and to have reduced a 27k majority to 2.5k. I’m hugely grateful to our CLP for all of their hard work, and of course to the 16,750 people who voted for me.
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Very interesting landscape analysis of Social Protection activities in Sindh by Dr. Asad @asad_sayeed, highlighting the need to consolidate all SP activities under one umbrella and at one platform of @sindhspa. #socialprotection
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This policy brief written by @ZohaWaseem explores how Provincial Autonomy is undermined in Public Policing in Hybrid Regimes & the extent to which the 18th Amendment has helped curtail hybridity in a pluralized policing landscape in Pakistan.👇 https://t.co/ePmLrFaMc7
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I learned so much through working on this report on federalism and hybridity in Pakistan since the passage of the 18th Amendmentwith @asad_sayeed @ZohaWaseem and Sidra Adil for @CollectiveKHI with support from @USIP! Do give it a read!
This report on Hybrid Governance & Federalism in Pakistan addresses the impact of the 18th Amendment in enhancing political, administrative and fiscal federalism in Pakistan. https://t.co/MTP8Dg2Il8 Support by @USIP is duly acknowledged.
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This report on Hybrid Governance & Federalism in Pakistan addresses the impact of the 18th Amendment in enhancing political, administrative and fiscal federalism in Pakistan. https://t.co/MTP8Dg2Il8 Support by @USIP is duly acknowledged.
researchcollective.org
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