“Rural Women: Pakistan’s Hidden Engine of Growth”
“Rural Women: Pakistan’s Hidden Engine of Growth” Pakistan’s potential powerhouse of economic prosperity PAKISTAN is searching for enduring ways that …
Read More“Rethinking Pakistan’s National Development Policy”
Rethinking Pakistan’s National Development Policy Pakistan needs a development policy that puts citizens, economic independence, and national sovereignty at the …
Read MoreManaging external debt By Ishrat Husain
Managing external debt By Ishrat Husain Managing external debt By Ishrat Husain Pakistan’s debt has crossed Rs100 trillion, raising doubts …
Read MoreA pathway for Pakistan’s agribusiness transformation By DR SHABBIR AHMAD
A pathway for Pakistan’s agribusiness transformation By DR SHABBIR AHMAD A pathway for Pakistan’s agribusiness transformation By DR SHABBIR AHMAD …
Read MoreThe borrowing dependency and debt sentence By Dr Shujjat Ahmed
The borrowing dependency and debt sentence By Dr Shujjat Ahmed The borrowing dependency and debt sentence by Dr Shujjat Ahmed. …
Read MorePakistan and the Art of Over-Promising By: Hussain Nadim
The arc of the US-Pakistan relationship invariably bends toward the perpetuation of military rule in Islamabad. When it comes to …
Read MorePakistan’s Crypto Regulations Are Here-Now Comes the Hard Part BY Jawad Saleem
Pakistan’s cryptocurrency debate has finally moved beyond whether crypto should be allowed. It is already here. Pakistanis were buying Bitcoin, …
Read MoreCommendable CPEC Headway BY Muhammad Zahid Rifat
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was conceived in July 2013 during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to China and formally …
Read MorePakistan-Saudi Arabia Pact By Agha Zuhaib Khan
From Military Alliance to Strategic Economic Partnership Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Pact By Agha Zuhaib Khan. On September 17, Pakistan and Saudi …
Read MoreExtracting dollars By Khurram Husain
YOU have no doubt heard of ‘overheating’, the word used in economic language to describe an economy that is growing, …
Read MoreHidden Wealth, Dirty Money, and the Watchdogs of Pakistan’s Economy
Pakistan’s economy has long struggled with the challenge of an undocumented sector and money laundering. The undocumented economy operates outside …
Read MoreBeyond globalisation By Haroon Sharif
FINALLY, it is happening through the US president’s executive orders — closure of USAID, the start of a tariff war to balance the …
Read MoreTariff crossfire By Khurram Husain
BY all accounts a world is ending and we don’t know what is going to replace it. For Pakistan this …
Read MoreImplications of a global disorder By Talat Masood
The world at present is an anarchic condition, primarily driven by President Trump’s deliberate policies of shaking up well-established global …
Read MoreNew world order By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
THE Trump administration has attacked the liberal world order, built on multilateral alliances like Nato, the EU and Bretton Woods …
Read MoreAdjusting to a changing world By Talat Masood
Currently, the world is facing a serious moral crisis, and universal values carry hardly any weightage. Leaders of several countries …
Read MoreA Nation Caught Between Superpowers By Dr Hasnain Javed
Pakistan’s economic trajectory is increasingly shaped by its complex foreign policy, particularly its relationships with the United States and China. …
Read MoreGDP and the quality of life By Shahid Mehmood
IT is that time again — the usual boom-and-bust cycle of Pakistan’s endless economic cycle — when we begin to …
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