Economic meltdown?
As Pakistan’s economic team begins meeting with IMF officials in Doha today (May 18) to pave the way for more funds from the Washington-based lender, the writing on the wall…
Economic meltdown
The stock market again nosedived by 750 points and the rupee continued to shed its already depleting exchange value amid dwindling electoral support in Sunday’s by-elections to the razor-thin PTI-led…
Economic meltdown 2012-2013
For the first time in recent memory Pakistan’s private sector has stopped growing. For the first time in recent memory net borrowing of the private sector has been negative –…
Conflict within ruling class major cause of economic ‘meltdown’
Pakistan initiated economic stabilisation and structural reform programmes in 1988. In an effort to reduce internal financial imbalances and external deficits, however, there have been challenges with consistency and hierarchy…
Rising from the meltdown
The Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) has confirmed sending 172,144 Pakistani workers abroad to different countries in the first three months of this year. That speaks of a…
Education meltdown
THE self-proclaimed experts would have you believe that the present hybrid regime has overseen a turnaround in the country’s dire economic situation. They tell us that inflation is down to…
State meltdown?
AS high inflation and job losses ravage the masses, our uncaring elites hogging key state institutions are fighting feuds so intense that one fears a state meltdown. These ugly feuds…
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…
Political meltdown
THE high drama of Punjab’s constitutional crisis reached a climax with the Supreme Court ruling that struck down the deputy Speaker’s action in the provincial assembly and held this to be “without…
Navigating economic corridors
We are living in an era of ‘corridorization’, ‘economic corridor’ being the new buzzword. The proponents of these ‘corridors’ claim that they are vital for increasing regional connectivity and trade.…
