Winds of change shift Germany’s economic power northwards
Germany’s wet and windswept north has long lacked the economic appeal of the industrial south but the green transition and an energy crisis sparked by war in Ukraine is shifting…
The global economic response to climate change: what’s the plan?
World leaders participating in the virtual Earth Day summit are unanimous: fighting climate change will be good for economic growth worldwide. US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and…
Gearing up for change
THE newly elected government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has a rare window of opportunity to exercise leadership by aligning national climate action with the ongoing economic reform agenda. The…
Understanding change
THE changes that are taking place in the built environment of Karachi’s low- and middle-income neighbourhoods are hard to ignore by those vested in urban planning. The increase in population,…
Cultural change for economy
THE topic of Pakistan’s non-ending economic quagmire elicits many proposals, some good, some reworded, and some repetitive. Rarely, if ever, is there a discussion on cultural aspects impinging on economic…
IMF programme: a mixed bag of economic consequences
In the statement released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 27, it indicated that it had approved a 37-month extended fund facility (EFF) programme, which unlike a very natured…
Economic corridor: unfinished agenda
Although much steam out of CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) has been let out, the unquestionable positivity demonstrated on it by Pakistan and China, from time to time, makes this…
Economic policy and central bank independence
Unfortunately, economic policy globally is settled on very unsettling fundamentals, and rather than fixing this, the blame for high level of inequality and increasing absolute poverty that this Neoliberalism oriented…
What sustainable macroeconomic stability?
The fall in inflation (to be precise CPI inflation) to single-digit in August –stood at 9.6 percent – meant that it was almost after three years that inflation had come…
Alliance for change
We face many paths to doom today — both economic and security-related — but only a few paths to avoid it. But the state doesn’t adopt these paths as they…
