23 June 2025
Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.
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23 June 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.
In the face of declining aid volumes and mounting debt and climate crises, lower income countries are under increasing pressure to raise...
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam...
29 October 2024
Published by: Studies in Comparative International Development
Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to state social protection and its limitations. Less attention has been paid to...
1 September 2023
Zakat – one of the five pillars of Islam – is an annual obligatory payment, typically equivalent to 2.5 per cent of an...
23 August 2023
The funding of social protection initiatives is especially complex in times of crisis. While social protection is critical as a means of...
25 May 2023
The global pool for zakat – one of the five pillars of Islam mandating an annual payment typically equivalent to 2.5 per cent of an...
21 April 2023
Around the world, pandemic relief efforts saw renewed attention to state social protection and its limitations. Less attention has been...
1 September 2021
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Energy protests are becoming increasingly common and significant around the world. While in the global North concerns tend to centre around climate issues, in the global South the concerns are more often with affordable energy. Both types of protests, however, have one issue in common: the undemocratic nature of energy policymaking.