Foreign policy under Trump 2.0
WHAT will US foreign policy look like under Donald Trump 2.0? Governments and people across the world have already started assessing this as the former president appears increasingly likely to…
Rise in election talk from US execs highlights policy uncertainty
US company executives are talking much more about the upcoming presidential election than they did four years ago as a wider policy rift between candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump…
Economic policy and central bank independence
Unfortunately, economic policy globally is settled on very unsettling fundamentals, and rather than fixing this, the blame for high level of inequality and increasing absolute poverty that this Neoliberalism oriented…
Need for a country-wide, across-sectors ‘Pricing Policy’
Weak regulation of markets, or the policy of ‘market fundamentalism’ that market knows best, and left mostly on its own market failures will sort themselves, under the overall wave of…
Foreign policy choices
DESPITE the high quality of its diplomats, Pakistan’s diplomacy has fallen on hard times. The country has long been in a state of crisis. And a troubled domestic front undermines…
Realignment of security policy
THE state institutions made a mistake by deciding to initiate peace talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. The talks were doomed from the start. They allowed the TTP to regain their lost…
Policy perspective
AFTER vacillating for five years, Sindh has finally nailed a water policy. The document needs some editorial brushwork but is otherwise fairly comprehensive. The policy has tried to encapsulate the…
Foreign policy test ahead
WITH general elections expected in autumn, the next government will have to deal with a slew of key foreign policy issues. This at a time when the world is in…
Who should make policy?
‘INCREMENTAL’ budgeting is generally practised by the government of Pakistan. That means that the Ministry of Finance’s recurrent budgets are not based on costing the latest development plans but, in…
Land-use policy
THE media is full of real estate ads offering plots of land, condominiums, apartments, one-unit houses, holiday homes, farmhouses, commercial spaces, etc, in many locations in the country. The use…
