Development report
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 has been released and hotly debated among policy circles. However, many of the readers of the report know but little and they tend to quote…
Central bank heavyweights head back to euro government debt
Major global central banks are ramping up purchases of euro zone government bonds, banking sources say, enticed by rising yields, a buoyant single currency and an uncertain outlook for U.S.…
Making Pakistan ‘Asian Tiger’
In the past, the repeated claims by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the cabinet of Nawaz Sharif that “Pakistan will be the next Asian Tiger” were…
Infrastructure development and innovative finance
Quality, sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure is a pre-requisite for accelerating and ensuring stability and equity of economic growth and social development. Over the years, infrastructure gap in Pakistan has…
Inclusive and dynamic development
This is the last of my columns in the ‘Learning from Japan’ series. In Pakistan, there have been numerous interventions by international donor agencies mostly in health and education sectors…
Human development and the populist regime
The entire focus right now, and self-serving comparisons and polemical reviews, is on fiscal and balance of payments issues as people do not matter in high-profile deliberations over plugging the…
A South Asian trade utopia?
In April, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held informal meetings and vowed to reduce border tensions, referring to last year’s military standoff in the Doklam…
A cure for all development ills
The research and practice that has gone into development and social change over the last three decades has provided substantial theoretical and empirical evidence about the interconnectedness of social transformation…
A model of development
After the PML-N government came into power after the 2013 elections, China – an emerging power – cashed in on the opportunity and rang the door bell of Pakistan to…
Why makes this the Asian century?
Two hundred years after losing its preeminent position as the centre of world economy, Asia has regained it. The largest and most populous continent, birthplace of major religions, home to…
