Opinion Debt crisis and SDGs ’Today, 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health, and 2.1 billion... Published 11 Jul, 2025 03:20am
Opinion 4th International Conference on Financing for Development Debt and Climate — II Sadly, unlike the lack of media coverage, and very little discussion of policy circles on this – both on the... Updated 04 Jul, 2025 06:05pm
Opinion Debt and climate — I While geopolitical conflict has unfortunately taken centre-stage, it is in fact debt and climate that is among the... Published 27 Jun, 2025 03:19am
Opinion Policy issues in the EFF programme — III Covid-19 pandemic, and then the catastrophic floods in 2022, both of which had significant climate change causality... Updated 20 Jun, 2025 12:53pm
Opinion Policy issues in the EFF programme – II In addition, lack of adequate regulatory capacity means that it is very likely, as has been the case in real ... Updated 13 Jun, 2025 08:08am
Opinion Policy issues in EFF programme — I Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with International Monetary Fund (IMF), which as per one of its... Updated 06 Jun, 2025 05:28am
Opinion Reflections on recently-released country report by IMF The recently released International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s, or simply the ‘Fund’s’) country report,... Updated 23 May, 2025 07:45am
Opinion Mission-oriented economic policy There seems to be a lot of focus on the working of ministry of finance, which is not to say that its role is in any... Published 16 May, 2025 03:06am
Opinion Rationalizing priorities for federal and provincial budgets For a country to be among the top ten countries in the world in terms of population, and with more than 60 percent ... Updated 09 May, 2025 08:01am
Opinion Uncertainty, protectionism, and resilience In the wake of the pandemic, and the fast-unfolding of the climate change crisis has basically brought into focus... Updated 02 May, 2025 10:21pm
Opinion Urgent need for deep economic policy thinking China in the 1980s was quite similar to Pakistan in terms of economic orientation – mainly an agriculture sector,... Updated 30 Apr, 2025 10:34pm
Opinion Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalization – II US President Donald Trump recently enhanced tariffs unilaterally on all countries – with a base uniform tariff of 10... Updated 22 Apr, 2025 12:13pm
Opinion Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalisation – I When there is something fundamentally wrong, it needs to be fixed to the extent that those fundamentals get... Updated 11 Apr, 2025 05:38pm
Opinion Issues in provision of adequate level of climate finance The World Bank Group (WBG) in its 2023 released ‘Pakistan – Country climate and development report’ pointed ... Updated 04 Apr, 2025 06:25am
Opinion Getting out of the economic boom-bust cycle Since independence, Pakistan has largely remained a consumption-oriented economy, and together with this, growth... Updated 28 Mar, 2025 05:07pm
Opinion Domestic economic thought, profession, and ‘dual-track’ pricing mechanism Although Pakistan came into existence at a time when there was a deeply renewed focus on economic thought process... Published 21 Mar, 2025 06:50am
Opinion Existential threats and Neoliberalism — II During the hey days of the Covid pandemic, and especially post Covid pandemic there was lot of talk of world... Updated 15 Mar, 2025 07:38pm
Opinion Existential threats and Neoliberalism—I The climate change crisis is fast-unfolding, and unlike what was thought at the time of the ‘Paris Agreement’ on... Updated 08 Mar, 2025 12:38pm
Opinion Climate change, Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and beyond On their webpage, titled ‘Resilience, environment, and climate change’ the United Nations Development Programme... Updated 28 Feb, 2025 11:56pm
Opinion IMF’s 2024 Article IV report, and the debate on inflation–II This, in turn, not only delays bringing inflation under control, but also requires a lot of aggregate demand ... Published 21 Feb, 2025 06:49am