IFS Contributes to a Knowledge-based Economy in Pakistan

During 2019, our blog posts will primarily feature a range of countries in which IFS has awarded grants to early-career scientists, drawing on responses to a 15-item survey with mostly open-ended questions that we are sending to former and present grantees in selected countries, as an element of this year’s process culminating in our new 2021-2030 strategy. This month we highlight Pakistan, where 105 grants (30 to women and 75 to men) have been awarded by IFS since it was founded in 1974. As one respondent noted, “A knowledge-based economy of a country is more stable, more robust and more flexible than an oil-based or industry-based one. Thus, science plays the foremost role in national development.”