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Historically, most long-term saving in what is now Pakistan has not involved financial institutions. That is changing as the upper middle class start to invest through the stock market and mutual funds.
FeaturedWhile many Pakistani billionaires and centimillionaires retreat from taking risks, Tabba is making bold moves. What is he doing differently?
FeaturedPakistan’s third largest bank has become its second largest, and is rapidly chasing the number one title, under an ambitious new CEO. Here is how they have done this
FeaturedPakistan’s youth bulge needs jobs. How robust is the country’s capacity to create those jobs, right as the demographics sit on the verge of creating the second largest labour force expansion in the world over the next three decades?
FeaturedA larger and larger number of Pakistani students are going abroad; where are they going, and for which degrees?
FeaturedHow one man's obsession with the exchange rate has decimated a decade of progress on raising incomes and shrunk the Pakistani middle class
FeaturedThe population alarmists are wrong and the country’s demographic problems are behind it. What is required now is a balanced approach to population that does not see family size as a concern of the state
FeaturedA new World Bank study suggests that Pakistan may have been majority urban for decades now. How accurate is that assessment, and what does it say about the country?
FeaturedA combination of lazy and innumerate financial journalism and the Pakistani penchant for pessimism resulted in people thinking this is a way more significant news story than it actually is
FeaturedThe company’s presence in the country is an example of a global multinational creating a hard-fought market for itself from scratch. Its departure will leave a gaping hole
FeaturedPax Americana is well and truly dead as far as the Middle East is concerned, which means that the Gulf’s much-vaunted stability is gone. What does that mean for Pakistan’s economy?
FeaturedThe country’s financial capital is a uniquely dysfunctional city. Its real estate tells the story of how its citizens cope with the incompetence of their ruling class