Inflation, price hike and Pakistan’s economic structure – I
In the following months, especially in the month of Ramazan, our main topic of discussion will be inflation and resultant price hike. As expected there will be political uproar at…
Inflation, price hike and Pakistan’s economic structure – II
It is common knowledge in Paki-stan that in the present day market mechanism, middlemen buy crops or product of the agriculturist 'upfront' much before the production as the agriculturists/producers do…
Nature, structure of economic growth
Economic growth, commonly measured by an increase in the real income per capita of a country, is a complex phenomenon. Its complexity stems from its multiple dimensions related to multifarious…
Nature, structure of economic growth
Economic growth, commonly measured by an increase in the real income per capita of a country, is a complex phenomenon. Its complexity stems from its multiple dimensions related to multifarious…
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…
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…
A recipe for economic growth
PAKISTAN has a history of sacrificing economic growth for short-term macroeconomic stabilisation. At its core, structural weaknesses of the economy — the low tax-to-GDP ratio and foreign exchange deficit —…
Getting out of the economic boom-bust cycle
Since independence, Pakistan has largely remained a consumption-oriented economy, and together with this, growth mostly has come from light industrial base. This is because government has sub-optimally played its part…
Can Pakistan avoid economic collapse?
The looming spectre of a food crisis and economic instability poses a significant threat to Pakistan, as the nation grapples with alarming projections for the forthcoming decades. By the year…
SEZs and economic development
During the decade of the 1980s a paradigm shift took place in the minds of economic policy makers; the movement in thought process was rooted in the idea that economic development…
