Development Dichotomies: How Policy And Regulations Must Raise Economic Complexity In Pakistan
On the 9th of December 2021, the Economic Advisory Group (EAG) set up by the PRIME Institute, a private think...
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Towards A Wheat Procurement Policy
In my last article in this space, I advocated for a wheat procurement policy that, amongst other objectives, could work...
Development Dichotomies: Limiting Discretion in Wheat Procurement
Pakistan had a bumper wheat crop in FY2020-21: the government claims to have produced wheat in excess of 28.75 million...
Development Dichotomies: Afghanistan’s Poor Half
A common person in the West imagines Afghanistan and Pakistan as one region with similar characteristics: that is to say,...
Development Dichotomies: Afghanistan’s Economic Conundrum
The Doha dialogue mediated by Pakistan had to orchestrate a broad-based and sustainable peace process in Afghanistan. Peace in Afghanistan...
Vacciconomy: The Political Economy of Vaccines
Nearly 60% of Pakistan’s population is between ages 15 and 64 and if you add those older than 65 to...
Development Dichotomies: Data Poverty is Real Poverty
ASAD EJAZ BUTT ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF ‘DATA POVERTY’
Development Dichotomies
Following weeks of uproar, the parliament finally approved the federal budget for FY 2021-22 with a quantum of Rs. 8.4...
The Budget and the Case for Right-Sizing
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 was prolific from a revenue collection perspective. Tax revenues grew by 9.2% from Rs.5.4 trillion...
Rich State, Poor State and the Fuss over Budgets
States possess many resources, of which one is finance. Governments, by definition, have to manage the business of the state...
A Tale of Two Partitions, Three Countries and Two Economies
Consider two years in the history of the South Asian Subcontinent: 1947 and 1971. Both were the culmination of long,...
Where did all this Growth Come From?
Pakistan’s economy is no less interesting than its politics. Whenever you begin to think that stability has returned and one...
Why Growth is Unlikely to Return Immediately
The most well-known aspect of Pakistan’s economy is that it is volatile. Growth has been aplenty in certain political eras,...
The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
Asad Ejaz Butt reviews a book strongly critical of the work of renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Profile: Musarrat Hilali, First Woman Chief Justice Of Peshawar High Court
Justice Musarrat Hilali took oath as the first...
Background Negotiations With Judges Underway, Claims Umar Cheema
The decision of the Supreme Court in the...