Sanctions go, but Iran must wait for economic recovery
Iranian trade will be boosted by a lifting of nuclear-related sanctions but the country needs billions of dollars of investment, and meaningful economic gains are likely to take many months.…
Withering geoeconomics
IT was almost exactly three years ago that a paper was published by Moeed Yusuf and his co-author Rabia Akhtar arguing in favour of a pivot away from geopolitics towards geoeconomics as…
Beyond sanctions and strikes
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Pakistan earlier this month served to highlight once again the importance of the brotherly relations between the two countries for safeguarding their security, promoting…
Sanctions eroding USD’s global reach
History may hold US President Donald Trump responsible for undermining the pervasive influence of his country in several international agencies dating back to when the US was the sole superpower…
Ukraine pitches tougher Russia sanctions plan to EU as US
Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as…
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.…
Venezuela skirts US sanctions by funneling oil sales via Russia
President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft as he seeks to evade US sanctions designed to oust him from power, according…
Politics over economics
This is the second of a two-part series on Pakistani administration’s focus on domestic factors while ignoring external factors which have a much greater relevance in formulation of our domestic…
Politics and economics
This is the first of a two-part series focusing on the symbiotic relationship between politics and economics, with existing literature focusing more on domestic policies premised on globalization representative of…
2025: Economic challenges meeting political crossroads
2024 was a year of economic stabilization for Pakistan. Inflation plummeted, the exchange rate showed marginal improvement, and interest rates were nearly halved. However, employment creation and economic growth remained…
