Pakistan’s vanishing workforce
Beneath the government’s gleaming façade of economic revival — with inflation cooling, the rupee steady, ...
Gender gap index ranks Pakistan at the bottom
The 2025 Global Gender Gap Index examines gender parity in 148 countries, and analyses gender ...
Youth unemployment– a silent crisis
According to noted economist Dr Hafiz A Pasha, unemployment in the country now is as ...
Economic winds start shifting?
A blend of moderating inflation, spirited export growth, and buoyant remittance inflows is reconfiguring Pakistan’s ...
Global economy: Deepening structural faults
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in its latest annual economic dispatch, delivers an unflinching ...
Unrealistic targets, narrow tax net and chronic policy failures
The Federal Board of Revenue’s repeated failure to meet its tax collection goals has once ...
Global poverty and persistent inequality
According to the latest World Bank report, almost 800 million people (8.5 percent of the ...
Economy: a dismal outlook
It is no surprise that the authorities concerned try to give a positive spin to ...
Debt, deficits and dilemmas
Pakistan’s fiscal position reveals a precarious blend of mounting debt, dwindling export capacity, and deep-rooted ...
Pakistan’s recovery myth
While the corridors of power echo with declarations of economic revival, the street-level reality tells ...