Biden’s patience for Israel thins – enough to change US policy?
President Joe Biden has stood firmly by Israel amid months of mounting domestic and international outcry over the humanitarian toll in Gaza, but the killing of seven aid workers in…
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…
US policy
The rejection of Maduro’s legitimacy dates back to early 2015 when the Obama Administration declared Venezuela a threat to US national security. The statement set the stage for Trump’s severe…
National security: disastrous policymaking
Input will dictate output – almost always. So what is the input that is going into our national security and foreign policymaking that has produced such a bungled output? Let’s…
Troubled Mideast peace effort compounds US policy woes in region
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Barack Obama declared the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace one of the two main US foreign policy priorities for his second term.…
Obama defends US policy on Syria, Egypt
President Barack Obama on Friday addressed growing calls for US action in Syria and Egypt by insisting the country could not step in to either conflict without international backing and…
Power and US policy
The Egyptian crisis and wider turmoil in the Middle East has intensified the debate in America and beyond about how Washington should respond to the turbulent turn of events in…
Industrial policy redefined
FOR decades, Pakistan has suffered from de-industrialisation, clinging to a dated model of picking winners through tariff protections and subsidies. This strategy has not only failed to deliver growth; it…
Industrial policy a relic
AS a response to sluggish growth, a well-trodden and worn-out narrative regarding the need for an industrial policy is again making the rounds in official circles. It is being proclaimed as the…
SBP’s over-cautious and lopsided monetary policy
In their August 2024 published article ‘Understanding the international rise and fall of inflation since 2020’ in the ‘Journal of Monetary Economics’, three writers from the Research Department of International…
