US, Afghanistan and IMF
A rare opportunity to extricate Pakistan's economy from its on-going tribulations has emerged by the recently started peace initiative in Afghanistan by the US. The process which began with meetings…
Status of the IMF programme
There continues to be a hiatus in the finalization of the sixth review of the IMF Extended Fund Facility to Pakistan. The Pakistan economic team, led by the Finance Minister…
Blame the IMF
Petrol has gone up to Rs146. Blame the IMF. The price of wheat flour has gone up from Rs35 a kilogram three years ago to Rs70 per kilogram. Blame the…
Dilemma facing IMF, and Programme countries
The pandemic has seen international commodity prices, especially food prices, sky rocket; while oil prices also cross $80 a barrel a few days ago, which is the highest level of…
Questionable IMF projections
The Staff Report of the IMF on the second to fifth reviews under the Extended Fund facility to Pakistan has just been released. This is an important document as it…
Leadership, nation-building and ‘trysts’ with IMF-II
Following the 2018 general elections, the new government led by PM Imran Khan was sworn-in on August 18, 2018. A third party that had fought the elections on a manifesto…
Leadership, nation-building and ‘trysts’ with IMF — I
Nation-building requires visionary leadership with a strong sense of purpose and tenacity to succeed; unfortunately, such a leadership has eluded Pakistan in the past. Pakistan is the sixth most populous…
Pakistan should leave IMF programme
Pakistan should come out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, pursue active economic diplomacy, and usher in deep non-neoliberal institutional, organizational, and market reforms, for which the PM should…
IMF, World Bank prioritize vaccine access to end pandemic
After kicking their massive lending powers into overdrive to help the nations hardest hit by Covid-19 last year, the IMF and the World Bank are now focusing on getting vaccines…
Life after IMF
THE IMF has raised several warning flags on the economic challenges facing developing countries in its latest World Economic Outlook. Essentially, the world is now firmly in the clutches of…
