Opinion COP27 meetings: achievements, setbacks, and deficiencies This year’s COP meetings that were supposed to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18, but had to go... Updated 25 Nov, 2022 04:00pm
Opinion The Bridgetown Initiative ‘A perennial question hanging over UN climate conferences is how developing countries will finance their domestic... Published 18 Nov, 2022 05:53am
Opinion The elusive ‘new normal’ ‘A nd the clock is ticking. We are in the fight of our lives. And we are losing. Greenhouse gas emissions keep... Updated 11 Nov, 2022 06:14am
Opinion Mission climate change COP27 meetings in Egypt will start on November 6, but the global conference with its first meeting in 1995 is yet to... Published 04 Nov, 2022 05:56am
Opinion Climate change crisis and COP27 COP27 – 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – which will be... Updated 28 Oct, 2022 06:35am
Opinion Austerity and SDR allocation The world is suffering from multiple crises — from strong inflationary headwinds to low growth — at the back of... Published 21 Oct, 2022 05:57am
Opinion Important issues for IMF, WB annual meetings 2022 ‘When they gather in Washing-ton next week for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group annual... Published 14 Oct, 2022 03:39am
Opinion Floods, debt, and SDRs Pakistan is facing unprecedented floods of a profoundly catastrophic nature. While 3 million livestock have died in... Published 30 Sep, 2022 05:52am
Opinion A world running towards recession ‘Central banks are intent on driving the world economy perilously close to a recession. Late to see the worst... Published 23 Sep, 2022 05:50am
Opinion Floods, food & debt crises, and 77th UNGA session The United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA’s) 77th Session from September 13-27 comes at a very crucial time ... Published 16 Sep, 2022 06:04am
Opinion Shocks and Pakistan’s economy ‘We are living in a time of overlapping emergencies: the pandemic is not over, climate change is a reality, and... Published 09 Sep, 2022 06:09am
Opinion The flood catastrophe Reportedly, around 33 million people stand affected by the most intense and devastating floods in the history of... Published 02 Sep, 2022 06:00am
Opinion Crisis of food prices ‘Food prices have surged more than 20% this year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. About 345... Published 26 Aug, 2022 05:35am
Opinion Price stabilisation and extent of tight monetary policy ‘Today American policymakers face a stark choice. Either, they can fight inflation by continuing to hike interest... Published 19 Aug, 2022 05:57am
Opinion Need for fresh SDR allocation Last August, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued enhanced special drawing rights (SDRs) allocation to the... Published 12 Aug, 2022 05:44am
Opinion Acute food inflation and a shallow global policy leadership response The ‘Food security’ update recently released by World Bank indicated a very difficult food inflation situation... Published 05 Aug, 2022 06:27am
Opinion Global economic players’ dismal policy action International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the July 2022 update of one of its flagship reports ‘World... Published 29 Jul, 2022 06:14am
Opinion Default risk at hand Around end of March, in a World Bank published article ‘Are we ready for the coming spate of debt crises’ it was... Published 22 Jul, 2022 06:07am
Opinion A cruel IMF programme ‘The pandemic triggered a dramatic increase in public debt in developing economies, from 54 to 65 per cent of GDP... Published 15 Jul, 2022 06:20am
Opinion Inflation, stagflation, recession Years of neoliberal assault globally leading to a diminishing role of government, especially in regulating markets,... Published 08 Jul, 2022 05:36am