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Serious issues in Punjab govt’s stimulus programmes

Serious issues in Punjab govt’s stimulus programmes

The Punjab government has recently announced two stimulus programmes for the people of the province in an overall effort to enhance economic activity,...

25.01.2025 40

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Dr Omer Javed

Neoliberalism, IMF’s exceptional financing, & recidivist behaviour of programme countries — II

Neoliberalism, IMF’s exceptional financing, & recidivist behaviour of programme countries — II

Notwithstanding a lack of revisionist policy taken by IMF with regard to Neoliberalism, and no apparent suggestion by IMF’s Independent Evaluation...

24.01.2025 50

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Dr Omer Javed

Neoliberalism, IMF’s exceptional financing & recidivist behaviour of programme countries—I

Neoliberalism, IMF’s exceptional financing & recidivist behaviour of programme countries—I

Traditionally, Pakistan has been infamously called a ‘one-tranche’ country, which although is correct in the context that it has left...

18.01.2025 40

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Dr Omer Javed

Sustainability, institutional reform, and stimulus

Sustainability, institutional reform, and stimulus

What causes macroeconomic instability? Main determinants that come to mind are elevated levels of inflation, fiscal deficit (FD), current account...

11.01.2025 50

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Dr Omer Javed

Need for much improved ‘Uraan Pakistan’ plan

Ministry of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives (or simply ‘Planning Ministry’) recently launched Pakistan’s thirteenth five-year...

04.01.2025 6

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Dr Omer Javed

Need for a more balanced policy emphasis by Pakistan and Argentina

Pakistan and Argentina have somewhat similar macroeconomic, and growth consequences, whereby although the extent of inflation rate was much more in...

28.12.2024 5

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Dr Omer Javed

South Korea’s sub-optimal experience with Neoliberalism: lessons for Pakistan

Pakistan has been actively under neoliberal policies since late 1980s when it first started to come under major International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

21.12.2024 5

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Dr Omer Javed

Pakistan’s economic outlook 2025: inflation, growth, & debt

Among macroeconomic indicators, primarily inflation has come down drastically over recent months, whereby consumer price index (CPI) has fallen from...

14.12.2024 4

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Dr Omer Javed

A truly global economic policy needed

In an October 24 post by The Guardian, it highlighted the comments made by Kristalina Georgieva, the head of International Monetary Fund (IMF),...

06.12.2024 20

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Dr Omer Javed

Carbon emitters, climate finance, and climate justice

In the just concluded COP29 meetings in Baku, Azerbaijan, there was serious deadlock over the climate finance commitment, and ultimately consensus...

29.11.2024 10

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Dr Omer Javed

Issues in reaching needed level of climate finance, and fast

The current, widely-practiced model of Neoliberalism, and within it over-board recourse to monetary and fiscal austerity policies– both within...

22.11.2024 2

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Dr Omer Javed

Existential threats, and need for 10-year economic, environmental, and epidemiological plan

The federal minister for planning and development, Ahsan Iqbal, reportedly indicated that the Prime Minister will soon launch a five-year economic...

15.11.2024 2

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Dr Omer Javed

Trump, global economy, and a world of polycrisis

The last time Donald Trump was in office, the world was in the midst of a global pandemic, and the cost of living was fast moving north, both at...

08.11.2024 1

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Dr Omer Javed

Serious issues in IMF programmes: time for urgent reform

‘Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile is widely seen as inaugurating the global neoliberal era. As the 1970s progressed, neoliberal ideas and...

01.11.2024 7

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Dr Omer Javed

IMF’s risk assessment: eyes half shut

The first coronavirus outbreak – SARS – in the shape of epidemic happened around the beginning of this century. The second coronavirus epidemic...

18.10.2024 10

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Dr Omer Javed

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 Business’ report, whereby it pointed...

11.10.2024 10

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Dr Omer Javed

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 37-month extended fund facility...

04.10.2024 10

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Dr Omer Javed

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 defaults, governments had reduced...

27.09.2024 3

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Dr Omer Javed

Economic resilience and IMF surcharges

‘Supporters of the surcharges argue that the additional fees discourage debtors from borrowing excessively from the IMF. But this moral-hazard...

20.09.2024 2

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Dr Omer Javed

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, and exorbitant rise in...

13.09.2024 2

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Dr Omer Javed

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 it was almost after three years...

06.09.2024 10

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Dr Omer Javed

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 its own market failures will...

30.08.2024 1

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Dr Omer Javed

Economic policy and central bank independence

Unfortunately, economic policy globally is settled on very unsettling fundamentals, and rather than fixing this, the blame for high level of...

23.08.2024 20

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Dr Omer Javed

Challenging gross financing requirements

Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A July 12 press release from...

02.08.2024 2

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Dr Omer Javed

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 Outlook’ (WEO) projected...

26.07.2024 1

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Dr Omer Javed

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 growth equilibrium, and requires...

19.07.2024 1

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Dr Omer Javed