Pakistan economic team and the IMF
Monetary Fund (IMF) team. Initially the Ministry of Finance claimed that the scheduled meeting may be transformed into a review mission that would reactivate the stalled Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) thereby…
Economic team needs a revisit
A little over one month after the federal budget for 2011-12 became effective few believe that any of the budgetary targets would be met. The government has already been compelled…
The missing economic manifesto clarity
As Pakistan enters a new election cycle, it is imperative that political parties should come up with not only actionable steps but to indicate very clearly whether the economic philosophy…
Widening Indo-Pak economic divide
This is the final part of a two-part series of articles, highlighting the differences between India and Pakistan’s state of the economy. Cricket, a great if not the only unifier…
Economic policy consensus: Anjum Ibrahim
There are two sides to a coin as they are to any argument – be it the result of informed debate and subsequent consensus or be it the outcome of…
Unaddressed economic challenges
The debate and anxiety throughout Pakistan in the aftermath of the stalled Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July 2019, ended unsuccessfully on…
Leadership and economics
Upon the conclusion of every single overseas visit I am filled with sadness and a deep sense of disillusionment. This is despite a divinely blessed deep reservoir of optimistic attitude…
Economic impasse is a ticking bomb waiting to go off
Nothing is going right in the country. The sovereign default is inevitable without an IMF (International Monetary Fund) deal which is being delayed at the behest of political leadership. Meanwhile,…
Economic dystopia incentivized
Can you guess what country has the world’s worst financial inclusion statistics? It is Pakistan. With 115 million unbanked adults (adults with neither a bank account, nor a mobile money…
Pakistan: grave economic distress
On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank rate has been rising ever since - a policy decision in…
