The labour force participation rates of women in Pakistan are amongst the lowest in the world. The graph below shows the trends in Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) in Pakistan and its ...

IN a 1992 speech at Quaid-i-Azam University, then World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers declared that educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is professor of the practice at Georgetown University and a former IMF deputy research director In a ...

As we step into the new year, one critical area that demands renewed attention is gender participation in the workforce. According to the Labour Force Survey 2025, female labour force participation ...

Despite decades of rapid economic growth, rising education, and declining fertility, women in South Asia continue to face disadvantages in accessing economic opportunities. Female labour force ...

Despite high growth rate during the economic reform period, five economists of the World Bank have found that women’s ability to access job opportunities in the new economy has been “precarious”.