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FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 35

Industrial revival or bureaucratic maze?

After decades of industrial atrophy, Pakistan’s long-awaited 10-year industrial policy arrives with promises of reform ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 35

Pakistan’s vanishing workforce

Beneath the government’s gleaming façade of economic revival — with inflation cooling, the rupee steady, ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 35

Gender gap index ranks Pakistan at the bottom

The 2025 Global Gender Gap Index examines gender parity in 148 countries, and analyses gender ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 35

Youth unemployment– a silent crisis

According to noted economist Dr Hafiz A Pasha, unemployment in the country now is as ...
National VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

Tackling child labour through education, protection, and reform

In Pakistan, the crisis of child labour continues to rob millions of children of their ...
National VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

Revisiting NFC: A case for greater fiscal equity for Balochistan

Pakistan’s federal structure relies on the National Finance Commission (NFC) to distribute financial resources between ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

Economic winds start shifting?

A blend of moderating inflation, spirited export growth, and buoyant remittance inflows is reconfiguring Pakistan’s ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

Global economy: Deepening structural faults

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in its latest annual economic dispatch, delivers an unflinching ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

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 ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 34

Global poverty and persistent inequality

According to the latest World Bank report, almost 800 million people (8.5 percent of the ...