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Dr Omer Javed

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

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 14	284.77
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 14	284.52
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 14	147.26
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 14	0.80
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 14	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 14	1.17
UK LIBOR % / Jul 11	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 11	6,259.75
Nasdaq / Jul 11	20,585.53
Dow Jones / Jul 11	44,371.51
India Sensex / Jul 14	82,253.46
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 14	39,459.62
Hang Seng / Jul 14	24,260.76
FTSE 100 / Jul 14	8,955.66
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 14	24,036.07
France CAC40 / Jul 14	7,779.51

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 11	16,585
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 11	306,069
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 14	69.32
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 14	3,371.80
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 14	67.54
Petrol/Litre / Jul 15	266.79
Diesel/Litre / Jul 15	272.98

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