Need for a ‘new normal’ economic recovery
The pre-Covid world was a neoliberal world, which exacerbated income inequality between the rich and poor within countries, and the gap between the developed and developing countries in general. This…
Informal banking: economic coercion
Pakistan is a country of contradictions. When we count the population for the purposes of allocation of seats in the assemblies and allocation of funds under the National Finance Commission…
Economic growth has ‘devastating cost to nature’, review finds
Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a “devastating cost to nature” according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. The…
Internet and economic growth
IN 2017, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about the future, where he argued that connecting everyone to the internet is necessary for building an informed community. His thoughts…
Strengthening food systems
Achieving food security and nutrition for all goes beyond eliminating hunger – which is a high priority under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 agenda. SDG2 – ‘End hunger, achieve…
Economic constraints and scenarios
There are some important policy issues that need immediate attention but do not get the priority they deserve in policy discussions about the future direction of the economy. This is…
Economic security
The security of the state has been of utmost importance in the annals of history and has in fact gained momentum with time. There has been transformation in the dynamics…
PML-N vs PTI: the economic scorecard
If we start comparing the overall economic environment between the PML-N’s last government and the PTI’s current regime, we see that the PML-N’s five-year period could be summed up as…
Short-, medium-term economic challenges – IV
We now discuss whether there is an excess capacity in the sector and what kind of challenges in transmission and distribution system are currently faced. We also address the subject…
Growing economic disparities
IN an earlier article, this writer had argued that the widening inequality of incomes and wealth provides a more coherent explanation of the structural character of the large current account…
