Safiya Aftab discusses the latest book edited by Harris Khalique and Irfan Ahmed Khan

Are the latest agricultural growth rates meaningful in a long story of decline?

Economy review shows Pakistan's ability to pay back loans stumbling

We need accurate new data on small and large-scale manufacturing

Donors pushing neoliberal agenda that provinces lapping up

Safiya Aftab on a history of tax amnesty schemes

Despite opportunity, post-Nawaz policy shifts for economy unlikely till election

The finance minister has a bad reaction to the rupee's natural adjustment

Doing business in the neighbourhood shouldn't just be CPEC related

The Chinese will do what they can to ensure their people are fed 

Advice to industrialise makes sense but Pakistan needs to create the conditions

Harris Khalique is a published poet and columnist in both English and Urdu but Crimson Papers is his first book...

Several new analyses have been questionably bullish on the effect on GDP

Exports are down, imports up and the govt needs to work on a consistent regulatory policy

The IMF exited Pakistan after giving the govt a good review but the numbers are built on shaky foundations

The 2015-16 budget reflects some positive developments, but stays with the Pakistani tradition of being overly ambitious

Pakistan has done what many IMF creditors do - good enough to keep the program going while avoiding painful reform

Is the government ready to take bold, unpopular measures to implement economic reform?

After a year of short-term measures, the finance minister will have to make some tough decisions for long term reform

A recent World Bank report on Pakistan's economic progress is optimistic, but raises more questions than it answers

It would be foolish to delay crucial economic reforms because of a sudden rush of foreign aid inflows

There are no easy ways for the government to cover its fiscal deficit

The finance minister's agenda for 2014 is businessman friendly, but not business friendly

Instead of making threats and encouraging capital flight, the government needs to stop cosseting tax defaulters and informal economy