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Dr Kamal Monnoo

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Will We Ever Learn?

Will We Ever Learn?

Here we go again, another repeat of knee-jerk policymaking in arbitrarily spiking fuel prices by almost 20% in a single stroke without reflecting on...

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PIA & AA

PIA & AA

After a fairly rocky 2024–25, American Airlines (AA) seems to be recovering well in 2026. Like Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in Pakistan, AA...

04.03.2026 20

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Indian Budget 2026–27

The Indian budget was presented in Parliament by the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, a little over a fortnight ago, but certain aspects still...

25.02.2026 40

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EU-India Trade Deal

11.02.2026 20

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Scaling-up Tax to GDP Ratio

04.02.2026 10

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Generic Approaches Lead Nowhere

28.01.2026 20

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A Complete Economic Reset

21.01.2026 30

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Flawed Turnaround Strategy

07.01.2026 30

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Policy Rate Cut - An Analysis

24.12.2025 20

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Labour Reforms

03.12.2025 30

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State Neglect

27.11.2025 30

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State Neglect

26.11.2025 20

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Re-kindling Pakistan-India Trade?

12.11.2025 30

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Private Credit to Financial Crisis

05.11.2025 10

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Learning from Ivan Klima

29.10.2025 20

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ESG – Avoiding an Overkill

15.10.2025 20

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SBP & Monetary Policy

09.10.2025 50

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Managing Rural to Urban Migration

01.10.2025 20

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Reform Should Begin With GST

17.09.2025 30

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Prudent Reforms

We keep on hearing from the government on its macro stabilisation of the economy, fair point, but the time has come to now move towards homegrown...

04.09.2025 40

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SECP Needs Reforms

27.08.2025 30

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Trade & Competitiveness

20.08.2025 30

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Scratching the Surface

06.08.2025 20

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Uncertainty: The Common Factor

30.07.2025 30

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Industrial Policy

09.07.2025 30

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Budget Adopted – What Next?

02.07.2025 10

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Budget 2025-26 – A Commentary

18.06.2025 20

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Finance Tips

11.06.2025 10

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Budget: a Litmus Test

04.06.2025 20

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Growth and Deindustrialisation

21.05.2025 50

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Time to Be Prudent On ESG

30.04.2025 20

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Lending in Pakistani Markets

23.04.2025 20

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Balochistan – Economic Solutions

08.04.2025 70

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Bangladesh: Some Take Aways

26.03.2025 30

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Reforms & Growth

19.03.2025 40

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Financial Conditions Matter More

12.03.2025 30

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Indian Budget 2025-26

19.02.2025 30

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Where is the Growth Mantra?

12.02.2025 30

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Course Correction Required

06.02.2025 20

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Entering the Unchartered

22.01.2025 20

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De-banking

15.01.2025 20

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2025: Hitting Disinflation

I am often asked this question that if the claims of the government on inflation are indeed correct, then why aren’t the prices coming down? Well,...

08.01.2025 30

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Bangladesh - No Fake News Please!

Regrettably, there is a lot of propaganda and fake news being spread about Bangladesh, mostly coming from Indian social and print media, on how the...

18.12.2024 7

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