Fortifying goodwill, protecting gains
Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams (a founding father and the sixth president of the USA) wrote to him at the height of the revolution, “It is not in the…
Beyond growth: Pakistan’s war against poverty, privilege, and the digital divide
Let’s not sugarcoat it — Pakistan is a land of jarring contrasts. In one part of town, a billionaire is escorted in a bulletproof Land Cruiser. Across the bridge, a…
Economic realities and export
While macroeconomic indicators have achieved feeble stability over the past year, on-the-ground conditions remain as hopeless as they were a year ago. There’s abundant rhetoric about increasing exports, but it’s…
Mission-oriented economic policy
There seems to be a lot of focus on the working of ministry of finance, which is not to say that its role is in any way less important than…
Russia’s clampdown on Tajik migrants raises economic and security risks
When Abubakr Yusufi boarded a flight to Moscow in July, he thought he wouldn’t be home for years. The 23-year-old from a small village in Tajikistan hoped to join his…
Mission-oriented economic policy
There seems to be a lot of focus on the working of ministry of finance, which is not to say that its role is in any way less important than…
AI against corruption
Corruption continues to be one of Pakistan's most pressing issues, undermining governance, slowing economic growth, and eroding public trust in state institutions. Transparency International annually releases the Corruption Perceptions Index…
PCC & the new economic arms race
The world is changing fast – Trump is isolating the US from its former allies, withdrawing from multilateral agreements and moving the country onto a path of isolationism and deregulation.…
Urgent need for deep economic policy thinking
China in the 1980s was quite similar to Pakistan in terms of economic orientation – mainly an agriculture sector, and one that was trying to industrialize, while keeping macroeconomic imbalance…
Pakistan’s economic strategy
The overarching economic strategy of the incumbent government is not quite focused on achieving macroeconomic stability, though that is certainly a stated objective, or to implement pro-growth policies — pledged…
