Industrial revival or bureaucratic maze?
After decades of industrial atrophy, Pakistan’s long-awaited 10-year industrial policy arrives with promises of reform ...
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 ...
Tackling child labour through education, protection, and reform
In Pakistan, the crisis of child labour continues to rob millions of children of their ...
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 ...
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 ...