Steps towards better agriculture
Agriculture is the source of livelihood of 43.5 percent of our rural population. Farmers face the greatest challenge of unification and competitiveness in advanced markets. They are restricted by absence…
Challenging the received wisdom – II
That our economic managers have been barking up the wrong tree in demonising inflation is obvious...a fact that has been staring us in the face for decades. To drive home…
There is no magic in the market
There are a number of theories why global financial system went into a tail-spin following the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2007-09 landing the world into an extended period of recession…
Super Tuesday
The anger, xenophobia, and polarisation so sharply on view on Super Tuesday didn’t come about overnight, or even since the Great Recession began or since 9/11 in 2001. It’s been…
Robot apocalypse
This week Amazon announced that it’s planning to open a grocery store that has no cashiers or checkout lines. The corporation said that customers would be able to download an…
The real corridors of prosperity
In the hurly-burly of Pakistan's politics and the Kashmiri intifada, the IMF just released its twelfth and final review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) first contracted by this government…
Beyond macroeconomic indicators
Economists, policy practitioners, politicians and international agencies in Pakistan are obsessed with macroeconomic indicators as a way to measure and achieve national progress. They keep on writing and challenging each…
Institutions and development
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections has momentarily shifted attention away from a case of fundamental import being heard in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. While substantive issues…
China’s economic development: Confucian values
China's dynamism is as much a function of its burgeoning economy as of following Confucian ethics. For the first time the birthday of Confucius (551-478 BC) was officially celebrated in…
Building universities along CPEC’s western route A welcome step
Minister of Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal recently announced that three universities will be established along the CPEC's western route in G-B, KPK and Balochistan and shall become operational by…
