Economic issues: enhanced competitiveness only solution
Pakistan has been trapped in a stagnant growth dilemma for decades. We have not been able to achieve adequate GDP growth rates for any extended period of time. During the…
New PM’s approach to economic issues
The newly-elected Leader of the House Shahid Khaqan Abbasi delivered a memorable maiden speech as the country's 26th Prime Minister (including caretakers) by identifying two major issues that continue to plague this…
Media’s approach to economic issues
The media has played a pivotal role in improving the public’s awareness about economic issues. Thanks to the media the citizens have become aware of what is happening to the…
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…
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…
Privatisation for economic recovery
A COMMON refrain of donors is that Pakistan needs to raise its tax-to-GDP ratio substantially to achieve macroeconomic stability on a sustainable basis. It has earlier been argued in these…
Issues with BRT
WHILE meeting an Asian Development Bank delegation earlier this month, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister said that 180 solar-powered buses will be introduced to support the operations of the Bus Rapid…
Real issues pushed aside
WITH the ‘hacked’ (or leaked) audio clips of conversations in the Prime Minister’s Office having caused a sensation in a heavily polarised Pakistan, the reaction has been predictably and largely…
An economic catastrophe
PAKISTAN has been brought to the edge of an economic catastrophe that it has not seen for decades. While the recent ‘constitutional fraud’, and the political crisis created by the…
