Curbs on black market can push remittances to $50b
By Shahram Haq Published in The Express Tribune on May 28, 2023 LAHORE: Foreign remittance service providers have voiced optimism that Pakistan’s remittances can surpass $50 billion per annum, if authorities restrain the black market, which they believe constitutes nearly 80% of the total market. They point out the black […]
The competition gap
By Amber Darr Published in Dawn on May 28, 2023 THE promulgation of Pakistan’s first Competition Ordinance in October 2007, in the same week as the more infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance, was a legislative non-event. Not only was the country preoccupied with the increasingly vociferous calls for general elections but[…]
Economic architecture
By Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry Published in Dawn on May 28, 2023 THE US is having second thoughts about the Washington Consensus it had evolved in the 1990s. At that time, the Cold War with the Soviet Union had just ended, and the world had moved into the phase of globalisation[…]
The Return of Industrial Policy
Published in International Monetary Fund Should developing economies follow the United States and China by building national champions? Geopolitics is rapidly changing the landscape of world trade. The policy environment of just a few decades ago seems like a distant memory. During the reform period of the 1990s and 2000s,[…]








