Entries by Kashif Aakash

Knowledge and use of the international classification of functioning, disability and health: a cross-sectional survey among health professionals in Pakistan

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Muhammad Kashif Aakash 1* Marianna Capecci 2 Francesca Gimigliano 1 Maria Gabriella Ceravolo 2 1. Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy 2. Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University UNIVPM, Ancona, Italy * Muhammad Kashif Aakash, muhammadkashif.aakash@unicampania.it Abstract Background:  The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), […]

Reforming Sehat Sahulat Program: Towards Transparent Cost & Universal Coverage

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The Sehat Sahulat Program SSP was initiated in 2016 by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to ensure universal health coverage for all households of the province. This initiative will reduce the Out of Pocket (OOP)expenditure of the household on health. The PSLM data 2018-19 shows that in KP households are facing catastrophic health expenditures. In […]

Railways In Shambles: Here’s How To Fix It

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The history of Pakistan Railways is a tale of bad governance, poor policies, mismanagement and political interference. This state of affairs has caused a dysfunctional railway system and loss of billions of rupees in the past few decades. In the post-independence 1950s, Pakistan Railways was in extremely bad shape, due to the supply side inefficiencies […]

Efficiency Analysis of Pakistan Railways: A Policy Brief

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Pakistan Railway, once profit making state-owned enterprise turned into loss making entity over the period of four decades. The governance failure and political intervention has declined an efficient enterprise which is now a burden on Pakistan economy. As (Ahmed, 2021) argued that Pakistan Railway has suffered Rs. 1.19 trillion losses in the last three years. […]

Can Profits be Turned from State Owned Enterprises?

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Pakistan’s State Owned Enterprises’ (SOEs) contributed PKR4 trillion to total revenues in 2018-2019. The total asset value was 19 trillion. SOEs contribute roughly 10 per cent to the nominal GDP. Moreover, SOEs provide employment to more than 450,000 people. This is around 0.8 per cent of the total workforce. Commercial SOEs collectively recorded PKR143 billion […]

Dysfunctionalities Of HEC And The Way Forward

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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) hosted a webinar on “HEC Travails” on 26th May with a very intellectual and experienced panel to discuss the Higher Education System in Pakistan. There are various issues raised about the bureaucratic structure and the wasted interests inside the HEC and its linkages with the universities. The standards are […]

Global Gender Gap Report 2021: A Policy Brief

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The pandemic repercussions have brought a high-frequency decline in the gender gaps in the (Global Gender Gap Report 2021, 2021). LinkedIn, ILO, and Ipsos have provided a timely analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gaps in economic participation. The ILO early projection suggests 5% of all employed women lost their […]