Opinion IMF’s risk assessment: eyes half shut The first coronavirus outbreak – SARS – in the shape of epidemic happened around the beginning of this century.... Published 18 Oct, 2024 06:41am
Opinion From ‘Doing Business’ report to ‘B-Ready’ report: some reflections In a statement released on September 16, 2021, World Bank Group (WBG) indicated discontinuation of its ‘Doing... Updated 11 Oct, 2024 06:40pm
Opinion IMF programme: a mixed bag of economic consequences In the statement released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 27, it indicated that it had approved a... Updated 04 Oct, 2024 08:29am
Opinion Poor reflection of economic history by policymakers ‘A World Bank study of 177 sovereign external and domestic debt defaults found that five years after successful... Updated 27 Sep, 2024 08:14am
Opinion Economic resilience and IMF surcharges ‘Supporters of the surcharges argue that the additional fees discourage debtors from borrowing excessively from ... Updated 20 Sep, 2024 08:29am
Opinion Fixing ‘The middle-income trap’ for all countries Although quite late, and perhaps because of the urgency being created by the fast-unfolding climate change crisis,... Published 13 Sep, 2024 06:58am
Opinion What sustainable macroeconomic stability? The fall in inflation (to be precise CPI inflation) to single-digit in August –stood at 9.6 percent – meant that... Updated 06 Sep, 2024 07:36am
Opinion Need for a country-wide, across-sectors ‘Pricing Policy’ Weak regulation of markets, or the policy of ‘market fundamentalism’ that market knows best, and left mostly on... Published 30 Aug, 2024 07:15am
Opinion Economic policy and central bank independence Unfortunately, economic policy globally is settled on very unsettling fundamentals, and rather than fixing this, the... Published 23 Aug, 2024 03:33am
Opinion Need for revisiting 2 percent inflation target ‘The stock market crash is – perhaps – the long-awaited signal of a US economic slump.…The market meltdown... Published 09 Aug, 2024 06:56am
Opinion Challenging gross financing requirements Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund... Updated 02 Aug, 2024 06:17am
Opinion Pakistan’s weak economic growth outlook The July update of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s or simply Fund’s) flagship report, titled ‘World Economic... Updated 26 Jul, 2024 11:55am
Opinion IMF programme, debt re-profiling, and debt restructuring Pakistan is facing a huge challenge in terms of debt distress. Secondly, the country is stuck in a low economic... Updated 19 Jul, 2024 07:06am
Opinion Some economic advice for the PM The first thing perhaps that the PM needs to understand is that the over-board monetary austerity – over-emphasis on... Updated 12 Jul, 2024 08:28am
Opinion Economic policy, federal budget and role of opposition ’…the existence of the opposition is ‘nearly the most distinctive characteristic of democracy’. In parliamentary... Published 05 Jul, 2024 03:17am
Opinion Federal budget and pro-cyclical policy The federal budget, due to come into effect in the next few days, has continued with the pro-cyclical policy... Updated 28 Jun, 2024 03:16pm
Opinion Climate change, austerity policy, and IMF programme Pakistan is likely to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme – which is different from a standby... Published 21 Jun, 2024 06:37am
Opinion A stagflationary federal budget Stagflation is a situation when economic growth is stagnating, and inflation is also increasing. Growth requires... Updated 14 Jun, 2024 07:57am
Opinion Need for revisit of deeply-rooted neoliberal economic policy mindset In his visit to China, with PM and some other cabinet members, the finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, while... Published 07 Jun, 2024 06:24am
Opinion A social democratic, green, mission-oriented budget In contrast to the usual approach to a budget discourse based on ideas around raising taxes, and expenditure... Updated 31 May, 2024 07:33am