In 2008, Alternate Solutions Institute, along with 180 think tanks from all over the world, competed for the Fisher Venture Grant of US$ 100, 000, instituted by Atlas Economic Research Foundation, USA. We were one of the 9 think tanks and the only Middle Eastern think tank among the first class of recipients of Dorian & Fisher Venture Grant.
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Alternate Solutions Institute, first free market think tank of Pakistan, is a registered, non-profit, non-political, non-governmental, educational and research organization. Its mission is to promote a limited responsible government in Pakistan under the rule of law protecting life, liberty, and property of all of its individual citizens without any discrimination.
Democracy That Delivers
March 08, 2010
Improving public confidence in a democracy is not just in the interest of any incumbent regime. It is in the interest of every party or individual who declares its belief in change through democratic means. The only remedy available is to focus on economics, and thus less politics.
Economics And Rule Of Law (FreePakistan Newsletter # 111)
March 01, 2010
Media Release: In Property Rights, Pakistan 104th Out Of 125 Countries
International Property Rights Index 2010 released
Pakistan ranks at 104th out of 125 countries
Nepal better than Pakistan; India at 53; Bangladesh consistently at the bottom
In Gender Equality for property rights, Pakistan ranks 68 out of 80 countries
Piracy accounts for the entire music market in Pakistan
Lahore February 23, 2010: Alternate Solutions Institute is proud to announce the release of the 2010 International Property Rights Index (IRPI) today, which measures the intellectual and physical property rights of 125 nations representing 97 per cent of the world’s GDP. This year, 62 international organizations, including Alternate Solutions Institute, partnered with the Property Rights Alliance in Washington, DC and its Hernando de Soto Fellowship program to produce the 4th annual IPRI.
Copenhagen: The Skeptics’ Views
February 10, 2010
The Oregon petition, signed by the 31,000 scientists, states: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
A Green World Order
January 28, 2010
It is true that most developing countries jumped on the Copenhagen bandwagon, knowing that a successful deal would grant them more foreign aid and technology-transfer, without requiring emission cuts from them. They had everything to gain and little to lose. But for those economies just escaping mass poverty, such as China and India, the story was very different: they faced demands for massive cuts and refused a deal.
Market-Based Economic Model Is The Most Effective Tool For Putting The Economy Back On Rails
January 28, 2010
A market-based economic model is the most effective tool for putting the economy back on rails and a mechanism in this regard needs to be evolved in collaboration with the private sector for progress and prosperity of the country.
Enter The New Age Of Slavery
January 19, 2010
Morality and fundamental rights are the first principles which must take precedence over everything, be it ideologies, religions, systems of government, on the one hand, or elites, aristocracies, theocracies, bureaucracies, dictatorships and democracies, on the other. That is the lesson that human civilization teaches us, and without which a society based on co-existence cannot exist.
The Virtue Of Hoarding
January 19, 2010
Most people would admit to hoarding money only with a tinge of guilt, because to be a hoarder carries with it the suggestion of being a miser — a Scrooge. And yet, every participant in an economy based on indirect exchange holds some amount of money and can be said to be hoarding it, that is, declining to spend it. Hoarding is a strategy for achieving personal goals or for dealing with economic uncertainty.
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