OOP health expenditures
IF health is a human right, then the inability to pay for essential healthcare should not be a barrier. This is why financial protection for healthcare is an integral component…
Agenda for change
THE World Economic Forum has released its Climate Risk Report 2023. It does not have any good news for world leaders who manage global economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological…
Our FDI follies
The FDI strategies the current government has adopted are ill-timed and can deeply harm our future economy. The nation needs to debate the tactics and approach before investments are crystallized…
Renewable energy: solution to energy crisis
The power sector of Pakistan has remained under severe stress for more than two decades. To fill the gap between supply and demand the government introduced three Power Polices in…
Call a spade a spade
The refrain from the Prime Minister’s office prior to 23 June 2023 that all International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions pertaining to the stalled ninth Extended Fund Facility (EFF) review have…
Centering the children
The idea of the Charter of Economy has gained traction since the PPP began weighing on it. We don’t know yet the details nor the broad features of this charter.…
Domestic foreign policy issues
A country’s leadership is supposed to serve its economic and security interests, advance people’s wellbeing, and respond to their aspirations for progress. These objectives are achieved with a combination of…
The Baloch conundrum
Like the West, Balochistan also exists in the past and the present simultaneously. The jagged serenity of its mountains contrasts eerily with the serious mien of its valley and mountain…
‘Independent’ money producers?
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and the Karachi Electric (KE) owned all power generating plants in Pakistan up until the mid-1980s. In 1985, a lack of funds in the…
Covid-19 pandemic, leadership & apathy
In a country of about 210 million people, about 10,000 individuals, prominent in business or profession or holding key positions in state institutions, think they know each and everything and…
