Progressive groups and investors hope Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden can win on Tuesday and quickly end Trump administration rules that stifle their ability to pick stocks using environmental, social…
The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region has…
Let me start the article by giving two quotes in order to lay the basis for understanding why it is important for policymakers to give far less importance to gross…
Pakistan goods imports have averaged at $6.5 billion for the past six months. That is creating a headache for the policymakers and causing panic in the capital markets. The problem…
Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda for how people and goods are moved around the region and across…
IN an era of climate crisis and with the planet warming at an unprecedented pace, the need for sustainable trade is becoming increasingly crucial. Sustainable trade aims at making trade…
The consumption-led growth is the highlight of the year. On expenditure-basis, consumption has grown in 2017 by 7.9 percent. By adding 1.3 percent investment growth, the aggregate demand increase reached…
As COP26 comes to a close, Lahore is engulfed by a sick monster named Smog. The famous saying ‘jinnay Lahore nahin takeya, oh jameya nahin’ can officially be put to…
There is no doubt that a system of robust and impartial accountability is the cornerstone of liberal democracy; the process of checks and balances safeguards the roots of democratic norms…
The Staff Report of the IMF on the second to fifth reviews under the Extended Fund facility to Pakistan has just been released. This is an important document as it…
