The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the April edition of its flagship report ‘World Economic Outlook (WEO)’ titled ‘Managing divergent recoveries’, where it revised upward its earlier projection for…
What is the best way for an economic system to run? No clear cut answer has been found until now. The usual categorisation of economic systems into “capitalist”, “socialist” or…
The oil price collapse that took US crude prices sub-zero for the first time in history may turn out to be a silver lining for the world economy, possibly offering…
In 2020, our world went through a pandemic and global changes, both on a scale unseen in a century. It was truly an extraordinary year for both China and the…
“I think the patient is stabilised,” then US president Barack Obama declared after G20 powers prescribed unprecedented remedies to steady the crisis-wracked world economy just over a decade ago. Today,…
Who runs the world? It might soon be women as a crop of female economists join IMF chief Christine Lagarde in top positions at major financial bodies. As the International…
The leaders of the G-20 countries ended their London meeting agreeing on a set of measures which, if implemented, would set a new era of international cooperation. The leaders pledged…
Thirty-nine Pakistani universities have been ranked in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings in 2024, a significant rise from last year’s 29. According to the details, Quaid-e-Azam University…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) epitomizes a global economic paradigm rooted in inequality with little emphasis on inclusiveness. Advocates of this model argue that some degree of inequality is essential,…
For the last three decades, Pakistanis have been preoccupied with jihad in their neighbourhood and an unending internal power struggle at home. As a result, Pakistan’s national discourse has failed…
