Window of opportunity

By: Rashid Amjad Published in DAWN on March 05, 2021 AS much as through good fortune as deft economic policymaking, a rare window of opportunity has presented itself to finally move the economy out of prolonged stagnation and onto a much-needed higher growth path. There is no guarantee that it will be sustainable — for political courage […]

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Beyond Covid-19

By Samar Quddus, Published in The News, February 16, 2021 The 21st century mainly gave us the unabated war on terror, civil conflict, political disruption, climate change, and above all global epidemics that have now placed a chokehold on well-functioning economies of the world. In this regard, the last 15 months have proved to be the most[…]

IMF agreement

Editorial, Published in Dawn, February 18, 2021 WITH a staff-level agreement between the government and the IMF staff, Pakistan is now set to re-enter the programme that was suspended in April because of the coronavirus. Although the Fund statement released at the moment carries only broad pointers of what is to come, one thing is quite clear: it is[…]