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Underpasses can relieve isolated bottlenecks. But when they take priority over public transport, walkable streets, affordable housing, healthcare,...
Pakistan’s energy crisis is often described as a shortage of power, gas or fuel. But that is only part of the story. The deeper problem is that we...
FBR keeps squeezing visible taxpayers while informality, distortion and leakage remain built into the system. Every budget season, Pakistan returns to...
There comes a point when a country’s crisis is no longer confined to budget tables, policy speeches, or televised debates. It is felt in the daily...
This paper argues that the Deputy Commissioner is best understood not as a neutral administrator but as the institutional heir of a...
The government has denied that Diamer-Bhasha’s 4,500MW power component is being abandoned. But if the rumour proves true, the project’s economics...
For a brief moment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy appeared to have won the argument. Competitive elections, individual...
Pakistan has been independent for nearly eight decades. The Union Jack came down, the British went home, and we acquired our own flag, parliament,...
Pakistan is preparing to privatize some of its electricity distribution companies at precisely the moment when the electricity business itself is...
Pakistan’s greatest sporting tragedy is not the absence of talent. It is the habit of forcing talent to survive without a system, then calling...
Section 1: The Country Is Not Going Broke—Its Social Contract IsPakistan is frequently portrayed as a country perpetually on the brink of...
AbstractPakistan’s exchange-rate debate is usually reduced to the rupee–dollar rate. That misses the policy variable that matters for trade: the...
Pakistan's relationship with artificial intelligence is usually framed as a question of adoption: how fast can the country acquire the tools,...
Pakistan's economic debate is dominated by the wrong questions. Policymakers routinely discuss exchange rates, tariffs, subsidies, tax...
Nandipur should not be treated as another power-sector embarrassment to be filed away under "lessons learned." It is part of a wider...
Economic stability has turned into stagnation as the government has been unable to resolve fundamental challenges faced by businesses and industry. ...
In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Argentina under President Javier Milei has transformed from the brink of economic collapse to a burgeoning...