PPRI examines how governance, representation, public resources and administrative institutions are organized across Pakistan — from the federation to provinces and local government.
In-depth, data-grounded investigations into Pakistan's federalism, municipal devolution, administrative distance, and public finance.
Quantifying travel time isochrones, economic friction, and public service deserts beyond nominal territorial boundaries.
A spatial economic blueprint for polycentric urban development, municipal bond finance, and intermediate industrial clustering.
Evaluating the capital-city centralization paradox, administrative inertia, and multi-tiered polycentric institutional dispersion.
Empirical subnational financial flows, Provincial Allocable Shares (39.8%), CCB matching grants, and municipal fiscal autonomy.
An exhaustive review of primary schooling, BHU healthcare, and water supply metrics during Pakistan's district government experiment.
Analyzing administrative distance to Lahore, development budget allocations, and civil service quota grievances.
A research framework examining constitutional, administrative, fiscal, demographic and local-government questions around provincial reorganization.
Evaluating the renewed debate: proposals for 12–15 provinces, 160 empowered local governments, and constitutional requirements.
Read articlePakistan's household squeeze: income nearly doubled but food insecurity and poverty rose.
Open publicationHow much does Pakistan's bureaucracy cost citizens? Complaint data, ombudsman evidence and the Administrative Burden Index.
Open publicationDistrict-level disparities in education, water, internet and food security across Pakistan.
Open publicationHow corruption becomes a private tax on citizens: perception surveys, reported bribe payments and the Citizen Cost of Corruption.
Open publicationLocal government finance, fiscal decentralization and Pakistan's own cities.
Open publicationA framework for studying scale, geographic access and representation without assuming that smaller or larger units are automatically preferable.
Open publicationA comparative framework for examining territorial restructuring alongside constitutional local-government devolution.
Open publicationMove from individual publications into the connected questions PPRI is studying across institutions, geography and public finance.
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The Scenario Lab turns administrative reform from an abstract debate into something you can inspect. Start with the current geography, switch to the PPRI-01 illustrative model, then open the full lab to edit district assignments.
The live PPRI-01 preview uses the same scenario map that powers the full Scenario Lab. It is illustrative, editable and separate from enacted administrative boundaries.
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Explore arguments about representation, administrative reach, geographic scale, public services, reservations and alternative reform pathways.
What the governing legal process requires before an administrative change can become law.
02Institutions, civil services, courts, capital locations and service networks.
03Revenue, transfers, assets, liabilities and the cost of transition.
04Population, density, geography and the way administrative scale changes the policy picture.
05Provincial restructuring and devolution below the provincial level should be examined together.
06Sequencing, institutions, personnel, assets and transition arrangements.
PPRI is designed as a connected research environment rather than a stack of unrelated pages.
Start with an identified document, dataset or institutional source.
Separate calculation and interpretation from the underlying record.
Label illustrative models clearly instead of presenting them as enacted facts.
Bring questions, reservations and alternative ideas back into the research cycle.
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