Dr. Rashid Amjad participated in a panel discussion on “Still the Overdeveloped State?: Political Economy of Pakistan” along with Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar at the Lahore Think Fest 2020.

By SHAHRAM HAQ Published in The Express Tribune on November 16, 2025 LAHORE: For years, Pakistan has relied on traditional levers like currency depreciation and energy subsidies to stimulate exports. Yet despite multiple rounds of rupee devaluation, the country’s export earnings have largely stagnated. According to an empirical analysis by the Lahore School of Economics (LSE), it […]

By Rashid Amjad Published in Dawn on November 14, 2025 THE recent World Bank Pakistan Development Update, released at the end of October 2025, claims that poverty fell in 2024-25. This assertion raises troubling questions, especially since Pakistan’s poverty assessment report, published just a few months earlier by the World Bank, presented a very grim picture. It[…]