Our social policy choices
Pakistan is an emerging democracy that has tremendous potential to overcome its political and socioeconomic problems. The democratic process over the past decade has helped improve Pakistan’s image as a…
Divided on social policy
Arguably the poorest people in Pakistan tend to be found more in the camp of the PPP than of the PML-N or PTI. The latter, going by popular perception, seems…
Paradigm shift in tax policy
‘The impact of economic growth on the lives of people is partly a matter of income distribution, but it also depends greatly on the use that is made of the…
Towards industrial policy 2.0: Part – III
Instead of choosing the winners and losers which was the case with the industrial policy 1.0, the thrust of the new policy that is still evolving is to align the…
Towards industrial policy 2.0 -Part – II
The foreign exchange earnings from jute exports which originated from former East Pakistan were pre-empted for allocation to industrialists in what was then West Pakistan. A number of observers have…
The need for policy reforms
Industrial economic size refers to the scale or size of industrial activities within an economy, typically measured by the total output, employment, or capital investment of the industrial sector. It…
Both IMF, govt need serious policy path correction
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recently-released flagship report ‘World Economic Outlook [WEO] update: inflation peaking amid low growth’ indicated that while the economic growth prospects globally had improved…
2023: year of non-neoliberal, non-austerity, counter-cyclical reform policy
Agreed, Pakistan’s credit default swap (CDS) risk has increased substantially during the current year, that it has a huge financing gap in terms of its loan repayment needs, and that…
Ending the assault of austerity and procyclical policy stance
‘The world is confronting multiple, compounding crises, from Covid-19, energy, inflation, debt, and climate shocks to unaffordable living costs and political instability. The need for ambitious action cannot be greater.…
The other side of social media
The importance of social media cannot be denied in the contemporary world; it has become an important part of an individual’s life, and helps in the exchange of ideas globally.The…
