Economic costs of judicial (in)actions [Part – II]
Huge amounts of money has also been invested by aspiring middle class families in purchasing plots of land, booking apartments and renting dwellings. Due to the absence of a weak…
Economic costs of judicial (in)actions [Part I]
Pakistan inherited a legal and judicial system from the British rulers. While the colonial masters have moved forward with time and modified their laws and procedures consistently, we are still…
Economic costs of politicking
The present political crisis will sooner or later be over in one way or the other, but there is a heavy economic cost to be borne due to the egotistic…
Economic cost of protests
In this season of protests and marches, it is useful to reflect on the economic costs of democratic protest. After all, in Pakistan’s noisy democracy, protest — in all its…
Economic cost of power shortage
IT is all too apparent that human existence is dependent on electricity in this day and age. Hence even a few hours of load-shedding causes enormous hardship and loss to…
The costs of Erdogan’s fight for Turkey’s ‘economic independence’
Turkey’s consumer prices have soared by the highest rate since 2002, further undermining President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox battle for his developing country’s “economic independence”. Analysts attribute the jump of…
The costs of Erdogan’s fight for Turkey’s ‘economic independence’
Turkey’s consumer prices have soared by the highest rate since 2002, further undermining President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox battle for his developing country’s “economic independence”. Analysts attribute the jump of…
Economic growth has ‘devastating cost to nature’, review finds
Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a “devastating cost to nature” according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. The…
The cost of confused macroeconomic policy
It seems to be a chicken and egg situation: inflation will fall first; only then will State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) lower its policy rate, or the policy rate will…
The cost of economic dependency
Pakistan's protracted economic reliance on the US and some international financial institutions (IFIs) has seemingly deprived our geo-economically important country of an independent, proactive and robust foreign policy since the…
