Appraising the exchange rate policy
The exchange rate policy is one of the most important components of macroeconomic policy framework in a country. In Pakistan it has not been understood and used properly due to…
An Afghan policy appraisal
rs are indispensable for foreign policy formulation: the impossibility of achieving the totality of a country’s objectives because of the competing interests of regional and global powers, the need for…
Social sector spending
The Federal Ministry of Finance has released the estimates of poverty-related expenditures for 2022-23. Thanks are due to the PRSP Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance for having produced these…
Wise supervision
THE success of an organisation depends on the skills, competence and commitment of the people that drive its operations. People tend to deliver their best when they are well looked…
Implementing fiscal strategy
THE federal government has rectified what successive governments in Pakistan had overlooked for many years: announcing a National Climate Finance Strategy to help mainstream climate change in national policymaking processes.…
Menace of tuitions
FOURTEEN-year-old Faiz leaves school at a quarter to two. There is just enough time for him to have lunch at home and be out again. His real day has just…
Wheat for all Tabinda
FOOD insecurity in Pakistan has aggravated sharply over the past few years, the inevitable outcome of persistent political instability and declining economic health. With one of the fastest-growing populations in…
Cherry-picking of India’s heritage
IT was Nehru’s death anniversary on May 27, an occasion that sees little state involvement today, leaving the Gandhi family and a few Congress leaders offering rose petals at his…
Lessons from Turkiye
SO far, over 40,000 people are reported to have died in the massive earthquake of Feb 6 that caused huge devastation in primarily Turkiye and Syria. Millions have been injured…
Swim, or sink
PAKISTAN’S governments have been variously arrogant, condescending, incompetent, steeped in self-interest, mired in corruption. They included constitutional contortionists and presidential despots anointed with the unholy oil of judicial dispensation. Most…
