Decades of neoliberal assault of advocating greater market fundamentalism, and lesser government regulation produced a global financial and economic order with serious resilience, and equity issues, which were glaringly exposed,…
The coalition government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is approaching completion of its tenure in the next few days. While presenting their last budget for the current fiscal year…
The debate and anxiety throughout Pakistan in the aftermath of the stalled Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July 2019, ended unsuccessfully on…
Pakistan’s recent economic crisis, brewing since last few years, intensified in the last quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2022 on account of unsustainable economic measures. This has diminished a large…
A few days before the release of World Bank’s flagship ‘Global Economic Prospects’ (GEP) January 2023 report recently, the managing director (MD) of International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointed towards a…
The ousted PTI government, claiming that it had inherited an economic mess, has left behind a situation bordering on disarray. Two headline variables indicative of the seriousness of the economic…
Perhaps out of pique or anger for what has seemed as an ignominious defeat suffered at the hands of the ramshackle Taliban, the US has frozen the nearly $9.5 billion…
We now discuss whether there is an excess capacity in the sector and what kind of challenges in transmission and distribution system are currently faced. We also address the subject…
Foreign relations and the state of the economy have become inextricably linked in Pakistan due to the PML-N administration's overarching objective to borrow from external sources to meet its budgetary…
We now move to another important sub-sector of the energy namely the natural gas. A host of problems surround the gas sector: What should be the position of gas in…
