Debt pressures, development gaps, and geopolitical shocks
Pakistan’s landscape is riddled with financial strain, questionable development priorities, and growing exposure to external ...
Reforms, risks, and the cost of inaction
Pakistan’s economic landscape remains precarious despite narrowly avoiding a sovereign default, thanks largely to IMF ...
Hopes for fairer reforms
Pakistan’s economy has been tethered to an IMF program, twice disrupted—first by the 2020 COVID-19 ...
A shaky recovery at risk
The World Bank’s latest report on Pakistan’s economy paints a picture of cautious progress teetering ...
Pakistan’s price crisis: A moral betrayal
The skyrocketing 133 percent gap between wholesale and retail prices for staples like potatoes and ...
Pakistan’s multidimensional poverty: A tale of struggle and shifting tides
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Pakistan is currently gauged at 39.5 percent, illuminating that ...
Pakistan’s job crunch
Pakistan has got a youth-packed population bursting with potential—but the jobs just aren’t there. Unemployment ...
Trillions down the drain: Pakistan’s SOE sinkhole exposed
The latest report on Pakistan’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) isn’t just a dry stack of numbers—it’s ...
Corruption crisis: A roadblock to progress
Pakistan’s continued slide in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is a grim reminder of ...
Lawmakers cash in while the nation struggles
In a rare display of unity, both government and opposition lawmakers pushed for a salary ...