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Alliance for change

We face many paths to doom today — both economic and security-related — but only a few paths to avoid it. But the state doesn’t adopt these paths as they…

Geoeconomic pivot

FOR nearly two years, the subject of geoeconomics has been discussed in Pakistan’s academic and official echelons. In an article published in this paper in December 2021, this writer had…

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…

Climate change and health

THE devastating floods in Pakistan are a manifestation of climate change. Whatever development gains had been made over the decades in the flood-affected districts were washed away within a few days. Pakistan will…

Economic crises

WE face today our worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation at its highest since 1975. Such crises are a way of life for us with 25 seen since 1947.…

Economic stability

FOLLOWING the recent GDP rebasing, the PTI and PML-N are going on about their resulting higher GDP growth rates. Yet sceptical citizens are unimpressed, being too familiar with our boom-bust…

An economic catastrophe

PAKISTAN has been brought to the edge of an economic catastrophe that it has not seen for decades. While the recent ‘constitutional fraud’, and the political crisis created by the…

Economic governance framework

BEFORE proposing solutions to the economic governance challenge, it is useful to briefly review the current position. Loans, deferred payments, lowering currency value etc can give temporary relief but it…