The global landscape of goods trade is currently undergoing a significant transformation. The established flows of commerce are being reshaped by economic, political, and technological forces. Since 2000s, this change…
As of May 2025, Pakistan’s tax collection crisis has deepened. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has fallen short of its revised annual target by Rs1.03 trillion – a staggering…
While macroeconomic indicators have achieved feeble stability over the past year, on-the-ground conditions remain as hopeless as they were a year ago. There’s abundant rhetoric about increasing exports, but it’s…
Why is the fiat currency-led, debt-driven global financial system teetering on the edge of collapse (fiat currency is government-issued ‘money’ that has no intrinsic value and is not backed by…
Pakistan’s digital economy (DE) has shown remarkable growth over the past two decades. From a modest volume of approximately US$100 million in 2000, it expanded to US$1–2 billion by 2010…
Our gross external debt and liabilities have soared from $44 billion in 2008 to a staggering $132 billion. Every year, a back-breaking Rs10 trillion is consumed by debt servicing alone.…
Nine years ago, between March 9 and 15, 2016, the world witnessed a historic match between accomplished Go player Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, an AI model developed by DeepMind. In…
In Hamlet, Shakespeare’s character Polonius offers timeless advice to his son, Laertes, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be”, warning of the perils of debt and dependency. For Pakistan, this…
The government of Pakistan recently inaugurated the National Economic Plan (2024-29) under the name of ‘Uraan Pakistan’. The plan, among other things, envisages tackling unemployment and underemployment and creating one…
Despite decades of reforms, Pakistan’s education system remains in a state of perma-crisis. In an era of rapid technological transformation, the nation continues to grapple with children not attending school,…
