Shahid Mehmood
Since the country’s creation, our decision-makers have always been on the lookout for an external cushion.
Updated 29 Jul, 2024 08:58am
The profound repercussions of an unsafe, risky Pakistan are hardly understood.
Published 21 Jun, 2024 08:31am
In its present shape, development expenditure provides substantial ‘free riding’ to interest groups.
Published 23 Mar, 2024 08:01am
Pakistani society and our governments must give up their ‘let’s kill the rich’ attitude.
Updated 16 Feb, 2024 10:39am
Pakistan has been saddled with external debt which it never required.
Updated 13 Jan, 2024 10:17am
In an environment where dumb policies such as interventions to maintain ‘strong rupee’ are the norm, grey channels provide insurance against losses.
Updated 12 Aug, 2023 10:48am
It does not take an Einstein to figure out whose currency would be more in demand.
Updated 22 Dec, 2022 08:54am
There is a need to end the romance with ‘welfare’ through controlling the price of medicines.
Published 20 Oct, 2022 07:58am
We are importing not only raw materials, but also the services to sustain them over the long term.
Updated 23 Sep, 2022 08:43am
Despite the difficulties, there are many aspects offering considerable potential in terms of economic growth.
Published 11 Aug, 2022 08:53am
For near-zero rates to happen in Pakistan, the present order of things would need to change drastically...
Published 21 May, 2022 06:21am
Despite the financial panic of 2007, wars, Covid-19 and Trump, the dollar retains its dominance.
Published 31 Mar, 2022 07:05am
Ironically, the firefighting that passes for economic management in Pakistan is couched either in terms of ‘welfare’ or ‘incent...
Updated 14 Jan, 2022 08:27am
Why is our aggregate supply inelastic? One factor is government policies.
Updated 08 Nov, 2021 08:45am
Land giveaways have gone through an evolution of sorts.
Updated 24 Sep, 2021 09:06am
The availability of the internet has become absolutely critical in today’s economy.
Updated 13 Aug, 2021 08:22am
Like physical capital, a lot of intellectual capital-related business ventures die because the laws required to facilitate them
Published 11 Jun, 2021 07:12am
How must a government look at infrastructure spending?
Published 30 Apr, 2021 07:26am
Why is there no domestically produced vaccine, or even a semblance of an effort to produce it?
Updated 28 Mar, 2021 08:26am
This government’s economic management seems to be built upon blaming every folly and failure on ‘previous governments’.
Published 05 Feb, 2021 08:18am
