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Nadeem Ul HaqueDawn |
Pakistan’s economic journalism had a better week than usual, with stories on exports, food insecurity, energy pricing, Islamic finance, agricultural...
1. Economic journalism under review Journalism: releases reported, systems left unexplored The current-account story got the arithmetic right and...
The exchange rate is just a symptom of how the economy is being run.
Jobs economy is hiding in plain sight, locked behind gates, guarded by officials, and used occasionally for cricket, political rallies, convocations...
Every week this column finds the same two diseases. The news pages practise stenography: officials speak, reporters transcribe. The opinion pages...
Is the State Bank fighting inflation or financing government?
For decades, the playbook for corporate success in Pakistan hasn’t changed.
Pakistan cannot grow if it continues to treat its own savings as suspicious.
A large share of the tax gap is not evasion but policy.
For many policymakers, education is not about learning outcomes but patronage.
The result is a city that owns billions but behaves as if it owns nothing.
The perks system lies at the heart of the country’s dysfunction.
Most ‘exit plans’ suffer from a basic flaw which confuses aspirations with instruments.
The central lesson from PIA is that the real reform is not the sale itself but fixing the governance structure.
We are now trapped in a world where counting poverty has replaced combating it.
Informality grows when the state fails to provide stability, justice and opportunity.
Despite at least six major currency crises, the state continues to obsessively fix the nominal rate.
If currency crises were rare catastrophes, one might chalk them up to bad luck. But in Pakistan’s case, they’ve become disturbingly a routine. In...
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