Kabeer Dawani

Development policy researcher and practitioner | @LSE_ID and @MGSHSS_LUMS Alum | @CheveningFCO Scholar | #MUFC

[Kabeer Dawani @dkab91]

Delighted to share this new @ACE_soas paper with @asad_sayeed on private sector corruption in Pakistan's pharmaceutical sector.

Brief summary follows in the thread below.

https://t.co/CGaGffLRXw

[Kabeer Dawani @dkab91]

@eat_dc What do you recommend there?

[faraz @faraz_lhr]

Imagine the scale of anti-women indoctrination that Pakistani young women are more supportive of wife beating compared to less literate, pre-social media grandmothers https://t.co/4E7gCsG4O9

[Kabeer Dawani @dkab91]

@_alice_evans do you know of any more recent data on this? Curious if the divergence has continued after 2000

[Profit @Profitpk]

Pakistanis are eating less and they are eating worse because they can no longer afford as much food. Data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) shows that over the past six years people across the urban and rural divide are consuming less food across all categories.

That means families are cutting back on the size of their rotis, the number of times meat is cooked in a month, how much milk is being given to their children, and even how many cups of tea they are drinking in a day.

The social indicators are staggering. The percentage of households categorised as “moderate to severely food insecure” in Pakistan has gone from 15.92 percent in 2019 to 24.35 percent in 2025. Severe food insecurity has also gone from 2.37% of households to 5.04% of households in the past six years. That means more than a quarter of Pakistani households face some form of hunger and malnutrition.

None of this is because we don’t have enough food. Pakistan grows its own wheat and rice. We are some of the largest producers of poultry, eggs, and milk and we even have a modest but growing meat export sector. The problem is affordability.
https://t.co/LOUyMfZlDg

[Abdul Moiz Jaferii @Jaferii]

I think the solution is to make islamabad into two provinces.

[Shahram Azhar @ShahramAzhar]

Our sister Hina Javed was brutally murdered by her husband and in-laws two days ago. The father in law is still roaming around and has not been put under arrest.

@MaryamNSharif please help bring the criminals to justice.

#JusticeforHinaJaved

[Scott Patterson @R_o_M]

Ok, very good, well done 👏🏼

[Kabeer Dawani @dkab91]

@Ankaman616 There is no reason for him to not come home!

[Salahuddin Ahmed @SalAhmedPK]

Increasingly, I see agreements btw 2 local companies relating to purely Pakistani projects but w. foreign arbitration clauses. They say it allows quicker & more trustworthy dispute resolution & is easier to enforce.

Can be no clearer sign of no-confidence in our judicial system.

[Kabeer Dawani @dkab91]

@umairjav Remember Ronaldinho also doing it

[faraz @faraz_lhr]

Pakistani society is resistant to change. Whatever progress that happened is limited to a few big cities https://t.co/JRbLj1J0Ha

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Now that the California billionaire tax is officially on the ballot this November, voters deserve logical arguments.

This guest essay in today’s New York Times, by two economists from the Hoover Institution, is based on a shocking logical mistake. 🧵

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

The Blackstone Group is the largest private owner of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City, not small mom and pop landlords.

Valued at $137 billion (not including the $1.3 trillion in assets they control), Blackstone is headed by Stephen A. Schwarzman, whose total yearly compensation exceeds $1 billion.

The idea of the "mom and pop" landlord being priced out of business because of a rent freeze is a myth. Small independent landlords (owning 10 or fewer units) make up only 1.2% of the ownership of rent-stabilized units. Meanwhile large corporations own 87% of those units, with mega corporations like Blackstone Group (owning 1000 or more units) controlling 56% of the market.

Mega corporations like Blackstone are pushing the myth of the small independent landlord to hide the fact that they and other mega corporations control the vast majority of NYC rentals.

And honestly, fuck them.

[Dan Thomas @DanThomasESPN]

Cape Verde have had more possession than Arsenal did in the UCL final.

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.

[Scott Patterson @R_o_M]

It is beyond unacceptable that the man in charge of world football cannot even kick a ball 😂 What the fucking hell is this?!!

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Arsenal created just 0.01(xG) between 45+6’ and 120’

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

Costco spots a recession before economists do.

When members shift from beef to chicken, then to canned tuna, something in the economy is bending.

You don't need a model. You need a checkout counter and millions of members with long memories.

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

A six-minute VAR delay with 25 replays to decide which of the multiple set-piece wrestling manoeuvres was clearly and obviously worthy of punishment. A fittingly decisive moment for the 2025-26 Premier League season.

[Abbas Nasir @abbasnasir59]

Sad life you lead if you are poor in Pakistan. Pakistan is so anti-poor. If you belong to the elite you have no fears. Disgraceful that the prime minister has come to the aid of his own class. This, despite the govt justifying the demolition of a Katchi Abadi just a few weeks ago because, it said, the construction was illegal. Wouldn't be surprised if member or two of the @CMShehbaz Cabinet own properties here. Govt of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.