Stability: Dhaka vs Islamabad
A lot of people ask why Bangladesh has been able to manufacture over a decade of economic growth enabling political stability. Part of the answer casts the intensity and transformative…
Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas
Since the start of the Russian-Ukraine war, Nord Stream gas pipeline has been the focus for energy supply to Germany and most of the European countries. Since many decades, Germany…
PIA: fab past, grim present, vague future
Ivy league’s business schools are always looking for cases to study in-depth by their students about corporations who after achieving their glorious periods, decline and struggle for their survival. Harvard,…
The secret of Japan’s success [Part – II]
Japan and Pakistan have been enjoying good diplomatic relations for decades now. Development cooperation between the two countries started in 1954, and since then, Japan has provided assistance to Pakistan…
Water sustainability in Pakistan – I
The following are excerpts from State Bank of Pakistan's annual report "The State of Pakistan's Economy" 2016-17: 7.1 Overview Water is a crucial resource for the livelihood of people and sustained…
Development not in sight!
Pakistan currently faces one of its episodic, demand-induced, BoP impasses, which usually end in growth containment, or contraction. In varied assessments for this decades long "glass-ceiling" to growth, what has…
Unbundling corruption’
Generally, white collar crimes are difficult to solve. In fact, it becomes almost an insurmountable challenge when one tries to prove these cases beyond a shadow of doubt in a…
Reforms: institutional impediments (Part – I)
Pakistan excels among many other developing countries in producing first-rate diagnostic studies (what is wrong with us?) , strategies, five-year and annual plans, reports but our implementation record is one…
Global economic growth woes in the midst of pandemic
“The COVID-19 crisis has been a brutal reminder that, for all of our wealth and technological mastery, we are still vulnerable to catastrophic tail risks. To ensure future prosperity, we…
Indonesian recipe
THE Indonesian National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (NAP on PCVE) that Leads to Terrorism reflects the fact that countering extremism (CE) requires both long- and short-term…
