Costs of the Ukraine war
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around…
Eco crimes
On Feb 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The assault, by what’s widely considered the second-most powerful military in the world, was on…
Extreme hunger
If the war in Ukraine, that was initiated three months ago, does not end, and without a reduction in the growing number of conflicts in other parts of the world,…
Stop the wars
This report “is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” Such was the response of UN secretary general Antonio Guterres to the February 28,…
Stuck in poverty
The term ‘poverty trap’ is used in economics to define the vicious cycle of poverty that does not allow the poor to escape poverty. People caught in poverty traps cannot…
Roadmap to economic recovery [Part – III]
The first two parts in this series discussed why we keep falling into crisis situations, and the need for the economy to grow. Low public and private investment are behind…
Another perfect storm
Almost a decade and a half after the global food crisis, a less famous sibling of the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the world once again entered a phase of…
Lives swept away
This year, Pakistan has faced the most monstrous climate catastrophe in the country’s history, leaving a third of land mass here under water. The sheer staggering numbers of people affected…
Half a bailout?
The fast emerging crisis surrounding Pakistan’s economy has quickly overwhelmed the short-lived joy over the IMF’s revival of a stalled loan programme. The news from the Washington-based lender that prompted…
Shocks and Pakistan’s economy
‘We are living in a time of overlapping emergencies: the pandemic is not over, climate change is a reality, and geopolitical stability has reached a nadir. This requires us to…
