Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
This webinar will focus on young people’s civic and political action before and during the pandemic, connecting this to debates on civic space. In various countries, lockdowns were accompanied by state violence. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6u5rXShFvI The...
The Pakistan Hub, a partnership with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, is co-hosting the Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture series. Watch the recording Watch the events live on the LUMS Facebook page. Registration is not...
Increasingly, finance dominates the way we live our lives. Despite seeing, in recent years, growth in economies globally, more and more people are struggling to make ends meet. Inequality gaps continue to grow, and the bulk of income is concentrated among a small...
Join the Kashf Foundation with Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI) and Mehbub Ul Haq Research Center (MHRC) at LUMS at this jointly hosted panel discussion to discuss the reasons behind gender gaps in Pakistan and to deliberate on the success and limitations of possible interventions. Titled...
Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
In May 2020, the ILO estimated that already 1 out of 6 young people had lost her/his job due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with young women more affected than young men. The pandemic has amplified youth vulnerabilities in the world of work. Watch...
The current global pandemic of Covid-19 is a health and broader crisis of overwhelming proportions, threatening livelihoods, economies, and societies. It particularly affects those already experiencing the greatest vulnerabilities. In putting the lives of millions of people at risk, creating...
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: An equity-based analysis from India, Carly E. Nichols, Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa, United States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEg2vOoveA Food is central to the social and physical wellbeing of all people,...
The participation of women in politics at all levels, is crucial for building democratic and inclusive societies in countries of all income levels, faiths and cultures. However, the progress made so far is increasingly being pushed back against, including via off and online abuse and exacerbated...
An insightful conversation on the importance of climate change, and how we think of and measure human development. Watch the recording Speakers Richard Jolly, IDS Research Associate Ajay Chhibber, IIEP Adil Najam, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Frances...
China and Global Development Seminar Series
Covid-19 and economic responses to it have amplified and changed the nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global development cooperation should adapt accordingly. How have changes to global growth, debt, budget deficits and taxes, aid, capital markets, along with poverty and...
The declaration of the Covid pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11 March 2020 had huge implications, not only for public health. For several years, IDS along with numerous watchdogs, research institutes and activist groups has studied rapid changes in civic space the world over....
This event is the second in the Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture Series, co-hosted with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre, Pakistan. Watch the recording Professor Naila Kabeer discusses the three faces of agency in feminist economics and their implications for gender equality in the...
