Embattled Obama takes economic policy plans on the road
Barack Obama, in his first overseas trip as US president next week, will be hoping foreign leaders show more patience for his economic policy prescriptions than he has received back…
Stopping economic policy madness
During the last 65 years, every government that came to power exploited the economy for enrichment of their families and friends to the detriment of the rest of the population.…
Global economic players’ dismal policy action
International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the July 2022 update of one of its flagship reports ‘World Economic Outlook’ (WEO). The title ‘Gloomy and more uncertain’ of the report for…
Lessons from economic history: Policy drivers of food inflation
Overall inflation, compared to similar previous months of FY18, has been inching up from 5.1 percent in September 2018 to 9.4% in March 2019. For the ninth month period of…
Fiscal policy and economic growth
Fiscal policy is an important tool of modern governments to steer economy in right direction. All governments, specially in emerging markets, endeavour to align their fiscal policies in the manner…
Foreign policy and economic challenges
Foreign relations and the state of the economy have become inextricably linked in Pakistan due to the PML-N administration's overarching objective to borrow from external sources to meet its budgetary…
Monetary policy 4Q FY09 Sustainable economic growth remains a challenging task
Monetary management is concerned with the regulation of the quantity, cost and allocation of money and credit in the economy. It plays an important role in promoting savings and investment,…
Economics over politics
It is quite interesting to see how losses in the economy are playing havoc with gains in politics. World politics is passing through a different and difficult phase of bickering…
Progressive fiscal policy
The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the context of Pakistan that ‘there is a need for collecting higher taxes from the…
Economic dystopia incentivized
Can you guess what country has the world’s worst financial inclusion statistics? It is Pakistan. With 115 million unbanked adults (adults with neither a bank account, nor a mobile money…
