Opinion Policy rate and oil subsidy — II Therefore, such policy increase will likely do a lot of harm to the impact of bottom-up approach by the previous... Updated 01 Jun, 2022 09:44am
Opinion Policy rate and oil subsidy — I In its latest Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), released a few days ago, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) raised policy... Published 28 May, 2022 05:11am
Opinion Urgent need for economic diplomacy activism ‘It is therefore in advanced economies’ interest to help poorer countries reduce the mounting risk of little... Published 20 May, 2022 05:42am
Opinion Controlling inflation, financing deficits — II Moreover, the government should even think of immediately quitting the IMF programme. If the Fund does not ... Published 17 May, 2022 05:39am
Opinion Controlling inflation and financing deficits — I In April 2020, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director (MD) had reportedly called the Covid pandemic a... Published 14 May, 2022 04:05am
Opinion Economy: Demystifying some policy choices In a recent blog article ‘War dims global economic outlook as inflation accelerates’ published by the... Published 07 May, 2022 05:46am
Opinion The cost of IMF programme Pakistan has been a prolonged user of International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources since the decade starting 1990,... Published 29 Apr, 2022 05:43am
Opinion Reaching a good balance between austerity and counter-cyclical policies First it was vaccine apartheid practiced by many rich, advanced countries, which significantly contributed to an... Published 22 Apr, 2022 05:36am
Opinion Reaching an appropriate cure for inflation ‘This is a cost-push inflation… it’s a rise in costs of fuel, which is something that is used in everything... Published 15 Apr, 2022 05:29am
Opinion Shehbaz Sharif’s election year economic policies Immediately after being elected as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif announced in National ... Published 13 Apr, 2022 06:03am
Opinion Economic and political instability ‘“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When the crisis occurs, the actions that are... Published 08 Apr, 2022 05:28am
Opinion Neoliberalism, globalization, and economic dependence Pakistan has been a prolonged user of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources during the last three decades... Published 01 Apr, 2022 05:41am
Opinion A brewing commodity crisis and developing countries The United Nations has warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukr-aine could trigger a global famine as Moscow’s Black... Published 25 Mar, 2022 05:47am
Opinion Beyond neoliberal and pro-cyclical policy ‘It is well known that the old model of austerity does not work. Not only does it cause the economy to contract ... Published 18 Mar, 2022 05:20am
Opinion Economic impact of war in Ukraine The world was already seeing a severe onslaught of commodity supply-driven inflationary pressures in the wake of the... Published 11 Mar, 2022 05:12am
Opinion Climate change crisis and global response The existential threat of climate change is unfolding fast, and the window of limiting average global temperatures... Published 04 Mar, 2022 04:37am
Opinion Global economic crisis and Neoliberalism ‘The global multilateral economic system has been stress tested twice this century. The first time was with the... Published 25 Feb, 2022 06:19am
Opinion Crisis of inflation, debt, and weak SDR allocation response ‘We’ve entered an era where supply constraints are the driving force of inflation rather than excess demand. ... Published 18 Feb, 2022 04:31am
Opinion Serious debt distress facing developing countries Many of the developing countries are net importers of oil whose price has been rising, only recently to a seven-year... Published 11 Feb, 2022 04:31am
Opinion Covid-19: a pandemic that lays bare deep cracks in the neoliberal economic order The pandemic has exposed the limited institutional capacity of both individual governments, and multilateral... Published 04 Feb, 2022 04:43am