Neoliberalism, globalization, and economic dependence
Pakistan has been a prolonged user of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources during the last three decades of 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, and the first few years of 2020s…
Supply chain crisis: balancing globalization and autarky
‘The supply chain crisis threatening the global economy risks lasting at least another year unless governments step into help ease the disruption, one of the world’s top shipping companies has…
On globalization and localization
After the demise of the Soviet Union, millions of people started declaring it a great triumph of humankind. They asserted that no power could prevent the world from emerging as…
The globalization of Covid-19
Life is as absurd as it is meaningful. The source of all absurdity is death; we all have to die one day. The coronavirus has not changed the way we…
Policy and academic implications: Popular voices against globalization in US
I used to follow the debate on globalization as a student and practitioner of development economics in academic literature or through cursory media coverage of a bunch of youngsters protesting…
Anti-globalization approach: Solution or a stupidity?
If I tell you that traditional economists at the IMF, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Harvard and London School of Economics have gone obsolete, how will you react? Our…
Economic integration through globalization
Globalization of economies dates back to start of 20th century that is period prior to World War One when it started shaping into a long distance trade and commerce among…
Economic diplomacy is the way forward
This is the first of a two-part series detailing National Security Policy’s (NSP) foreign policy’s focus on economic diplomacy – a focus that is a challenge as the world moves…
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…
Need for much improved ‘Uraan Pakistan’ plan
Ministry of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives (or simply ‘Planning Ministry’) recently launched Pakistan’s thirteenth five-year plan (2024-29) under the title ‘Uraan Pakistan’ – where the word ‘uraan’ means flight…
