Opinion Free laptops: a recipe for success? Free laptop schemes such as the one launched by Shehbaz Sharif for lower income groups can work in a number of ways.... Published 17 Jul, 2023 03:47am
Opinion A tale of 2 economies: India and Pakistan When India and Pakistan became independent states after the Partition in 1947, they inherited a similar economic... Published 17 May, 2023 06:22am
Opinion Theoretical dilemma: elite capture, inflation With the recent increase in food inflation and taxes it is essential that we reexamine the discussions regarding... Published 06 Apr, 2023 06:20am
Opinion Prosperity: criticality of private sector “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” - John Maynard Keynes Innovation is... Published 19 Mar, 2023 03:33am
Opinion Monetary-fiscal history of Latin America: lessons for Pakistan Pakistan today suffers from significant macroeconomic instability, high inflation, a currency crisis and a risk of a... Published 06 Mar, 2023 06:43am
Opinion How to deal with Pakistan’s forthcoming currency crisis “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” ? Thomas Sowell Nomura has warned that Pakistan faces currency... Published 07 Jan, 2023 06:00am
Opinion Lack of prudent macroeconomic policies “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they... Published 14 Dec, 2022 05:57am
Opinion Calamities, debt crisis, growth: prospects — II H istorical precedents show the many ways in which various sectors of the economy do this. As rising debt causes a... Published 16 Oct, 2022 03:53am
Opinion Calamities, debt crisis, growth: prospects – I Natural disasters such as floods can have detrimental effects on growth as they depress both supply and demand, and... Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am
KSE-100 closes above 97,000 for the first time as investors dismiss political noise, index gains 1,782 points