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Dr Omer Javed

Investment outlook
Opinion

Investment outlook

ARTICLE: In these times of great uncertainty about economic outlook of countries in the wake of the pandemic, at...
Published 07 Aug, 2020 02:45am
Fragile oil markets
Opinion

Fragile oil markets

ARTICLE: As lockdowns ease globally oil demand has picked up, causing in turn a bounce-back in prices of both Brent...
Published 19 Jun, 2020 03:27am
Global policy post-Covid-19
Opinion

Global policy post-Covid-19

There were already discussions gaining momentum since the Global Financial Crisis 2007/08 in many policy corners of economy and politics globally - but still remained far from reaching any meaningful threshold in terms of consequences on three main areas
Updated 13 Jun, 2020 09:49pm
A looming debt crisis
Opinion

A looming debt crisis

In his article in the New York Times on April 30, 2020, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed highlighted the fact that the temporary debt relief provided by G20 group of countries, however a welcome step, it was not
Published 22 May, 2020 12:03am
A post-Covid-19 world
Opinion

A post-Covid-19 world

Major wars and pandemics, are the sort of happenings that change the world as we know it before they have happened. The Black Death lead to massive deaths in the Middle Ages, also it broke the back of feudalism and created a working class. On the positive
Published 15 May, 2020 12:05am
Covid-19 and 'Green New Deal' - II
Opinion

Covid-19 and 'Green New Deal' - II

The developing countries are not doing much different from the rest. There is no discussion to plan even reform and support packages that bail workers out on a large scale, and not the big businesses; a reform plan that revisits the economic model towards
Published 08 May, 2020 12:05am
Covid-19 and 'Green New Deal' - I
Opinion

Covid-19 and 'Green New Deal' - I

The multiple failings of neoliberal agenda since its beginnings in the late 1970s - manifested in economic policies, including those of structural adjustment programmes by multilateral institutions like International Monetary Fund (IMF) and backed by mani
Published 01 May, 2020 12:54am
Unprecedented global oil market turmoil and Pakistan
Opinion

Unprecedented global oil market turmoil and Pakistan

Global lockdowns have resulted in a drastic reduction in oil demand. A long and painful deliberative process to cut the global supply of oil by OPEC+ group of major oil exporting countries, each vying for greater oil revenues and lesser proportion of cutt
Published 24 Apr, 2020 02:52am
Global economic prospects under Covid-19 crisis
Opinion

Global economic prospects under Covid-19 crisis

Covid-19 has badly exposed the lack of interdisciplinary approach of mainstream economics - the theoretical basis for widely practiced economic policy, both at the level of most countries and multilateral institutions - whereby, as a result, the economic
Published 17 Apr, 2020 12:00am
Economic crisis in developing countries: some solutions
Opinion

Economic crisis in developing countries: some solutions

While the developed countries are feeling the heat in terms of meeting public-health needs with regard to COVID-19, the developing countries were a lot less prepared for the pandemic. With narrow social safety net programmes, both in terms of coverage and
Published 10 Apr, 2020 12:00am
Coronavirus and economic policy
Opinion

Coronavirus and economic policy

First of all it makes sense to realize that the COVID-19 just did not hit the world from out of the blue. In fact, according to a research article 'Coronavirus: a paradigm of new emerging zoonotic diseases' which was recently published in February 2020, i
Updated 03 Apr, 2020 09:22am
Coronavirus and debt relief
Opinion

Coronavirus and debt relief

The Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, recently made a statement in the meeting G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, in which she highlighted the severe impact of the virus in terms of human
Published 27 Mar, 2020 12:00am