July 6, 2015: I was quoted in a column on the lack of effectiveness of American aid for education in Pakistan by Nadia Naviwala. The quote is below:

“All aid funding for Pakistan continues to face one problem — it can’t circumvent the politics around education,” says Asif Saeed Memon, a doctoral candidate and research fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). “For politicians, education is about patronage in two ways. One is teaching positions and the second is school construction, which is about awarding work to their favourite contractors.”