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M-commerce can help country arrest economic slide

Pakistan’s economy has faced numerous challenges, including inflation, unemployment, and low growth rates. However, the rise of mobile commerce (m-commerce) may present a promising solution to these issues. In recent…

Economic stress

Since around September 2021, and especially since April last year, economic stress has come to Pakistan from a number of sources. First is political instability for many months now, which…

Economics over politics

It is quite interesting to see how losses in the economy are playing havoc with gains in politics. World politics is passing through a different and difficult phase of bickering…

Conditional financing

Pakistan has always been an agrarian economy. This gives it a comparative advantage in the sector. The abundance of natural resources in the country and the specialized labour force provide…

Economic sabotage?

Ishaq Dar eagerly misses no opportunity to shift the blame for Pakistan’s economic woes, despite the disasters surrounding his stewardship of the country’s beleaguered finances. It was in this spirit…

Pakistan: grave economic distress

On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank rate has been rising ever since - a policy decision in…

Sinking revenues and IMF conditionalities

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Pakistani authorities have been unable to reach a staff-level agreement after a week-long discussions on 9th Review. Reportedly, Pakistan having broadly agreed to all…

Europe in crossfire of US-China economic rivalry

The economic confrontation between the United States and China has put Europe in the crossfire, with Washington’s plan to boost green industries threatening to cause collateral damage to a key…