World Bank and NFC Award

A RATHER damning indictment of the seventh NFC Award has just been published by the World Bank in a study titled Strengthening Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan. The study plugs a crucial gap in our understanding of the impact that the NFC Award has had on the state’s ability to function and deliver social services. The findings are not flattering for the performance of the provincial governments across Pakistan, since 2009. In typical World Bank style, the authors generously pepper the report wi...

By none@none.com (Khurram Husain)