“The findings of this study challenge the very rationale of Pakistan’s poverty alleviating strategies, which have constantly been failing as the number of those who are below the Poverty Line, instead of decreasing, has increased.” He further said, “Though this study focuses only on two districts of Punjab, it [...]

The media discussion of events in Honduras is remarkably confused. Here’s CNN:
The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president.
and
Micheletti, the head of Congress, became president after lawmakers voted by a show of hands to strip [...]

Around forty-six million eligible voters went to the polls last Friday June 12th to vote in Iran’s Presidential elections. The two front-runners were the sitting Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and opposition leader Mir Hassein Mousavi, a former prime minster from the early years of the Iranian Revolution. On June 12th,  as the votes were being [...]

Since President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, conservative critics have been vocal about a potentially dangerous shift in the judicial philosophy on the Court.   Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Constitutional Government shares concerns on some specific cases, but suggests her overall judicial record is not as worrisome.
His conclusion:
Overall, [...]

The John Templeton Foundation has a series of conversations among leading scientists, scholars, and public figures about the “Big Questions“. The fourth issue of this series, “A Templeton Conversation” is particularly interesting to those who care about the free market, and even to those who prefer more government intervention. This latest issue asks,“Does the free [...]

Atlas has been a supporter and a friend to Alternate Solutions Institute based in Lahore, Pakistan for many years. ASI recently won Atlas´ Fisher Venture Grant Award. Dr. Khalil Ahmad the founder and executive director of ASI was recently in the Washington, DC area attending Atlas´ TTMBA program.
Dr. Ahmed is man with a strong sense [...]

Atlas is happy to highlight two recent efforts by Malasia Think Tank London to promote democracy and the rule of law.
1.This past Sunday, Malaysia Think Tank London held a seminar on the Rule of Law, moderated by Abidin Muhriz, Director of the think tank and Head of the Project to Advance Democratic Institutions. Recognizing the [...]

The resignation of Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf after nine years of military rule has marked a historic political success for his rivals at home who have been seeking his removal from office since last February elections.
President Musharraf departure resulted, in part, due to his political enemies. They convinced his supporters in the Bush Administration [...]

After a string of unsuccessful negotiations, Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front) and Morgan Tsvangirai (Movement for Democratic Change) are once again engaged in discussions surrounding the Zimbabwean elections prior to the start of the Southern African Development Community meeting being held this weekend.
Atlas partner, Denford Madenyika of the Dzidzai Foundation says,
“the so-called negotiations [...]

Khalil Ahmad of the Alternate Solutions Institute in Pakistan writes about “The Long March - The Aftermath” (referring to the‚ country-wide protest to demand the reinstatement of senior judges, removed in November when President Musharraf declared emergency rule) in a piece published in The Pakistan Observer (6/28/08).
The lawyers, civil society activists and all of us [...]