TWO developments augur well for reshaping Pakistan’s economic relationship with the world. First, the dismantling of USAID closes a long and painful chapter of dependence and misplaced expectations between Pakistan and America.…
Pakistan stands today at a moment where questions of power, law and governance are no longer confined to constitutional commentary or political theatrics. They now cut directly to the core…
IT was almost exactly three years ago that a paper was published by Moeed Yusuf and his co-author Rabia Akhtar arguing in favour of a pivot away from geopolitics towards geoeconomics as…
THE core of the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) movement was the economic and democratic organisation of society, because the fulcrum of the Quranic message is human integration on the principle of…
IN 1765, undivided India lost its financial sovereignty when Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II granted the East India Company the right to collect taxes (diwani) in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.…
In an age of economic disparity, social unrest and climate volatility, the concept of ‘moral economics’ is no longer an abstract philosophical ideal but rather a pragmatic response to a…
In its most recent monetary policy statement (MPS), released on September 16 by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the policy rate has been kept unchanged at 11 percent due to…
India’s world-beating economic growth is failing to translate into gains for equity markets as weakening pricing power and US tariffs weigh on corporate earnings, turning foreign investors away. Gross domestic…
‘A resilient society is able to react to and respond after a shock. Resilience even opens new doors to enhanced growth and sustainability. …The concept of resilience can also be…
Within economy, relegation of Ministry of Finance (MOF) to purely financial matters, and instead forming a ‘Ministry of Economy’ (MOEC) as the main ministry for the overall economic policy. Moreover,…
