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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…

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…

The flawed economics of the IGCEP

One of the ten commandments for electricity planning is ‘Thou Shalt Not Expand Electricity Supply Without Industrial Demand’. New power plants become stranded, costly monuments to poor planning without industrial…

Beyond the economic crisis

PAKISTAN no longer faces an economic emergency as it did last year when it teetered on the edge of sovereign debt default. It has come out of that crisis and managed…

Geoeconomic pivot

FOR nearly two years, the subject of geoeconomics has been discussed in Pakistan’s academic and official echelons. In an article published in this paper in December 2021, this writer had…