Corporate profits down 1% in 2024, but some sectors soar
Energy was the biggest drag, driven by volatile prices and demand; absent that laggard, profits at Corporate Pakistan rose 8% in 2024
Jo Dar gaya woh mar gaya
What tools does Ishaq Dar have at his disposal, and is now the right time to use them?
Breaking the habit: will the government let the rupee go?
Trying to control the exchange rate has been one of Pakistan’s biggest macroeconomic policy blunders since Partition. Will the Imran Khan Administration break the cycle, or will they fall prey to their baser instincts?
2020 was supposed to be the beginning of the recovery. Then Covid
Pakistan’s economy is going to contract this fiscal year, with GDP (gross domestic product) growth expected to stand at -0.38%, a significant...
The budget of Ls: Explained by economists
Experts explain how 'corona budget' focuses more on 'lives, livelihoods, locusts and lockdown'
Tania Aidrus’s big bet on creating a Digital Pakistan
It started, as things often do in Pakistan, with a WhatsApp forward. On Thursday, December 5, a group of Pakistanis living in...
How to grow a Big Five bank: the case of ABL
Allied Bank is the type of institution that makes that “Lazy Big Five Banks” stereotype look true. The bank has been –...
Is e-commerce dying in Pakistan?
E-commerce in Pakistan is burgeoning and it is burgeoning at breakneck speed. In sheer numbers, e-commerce sales swelled 93.7pc in 2018, reaching...
Sustainable solution to Pakistan’s problems lie in structural reforms, believe analysts
Pakistan will have to push for fiscal consolidation and taxation reforms under the forthcoming IMF programme and move away from reliance on borrowing and foreign support to shore up the economy
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Dr S Akbar Zaidi
Technocratic solutions are not enough; Pakistan needs to have major political parties agree on the broad contours of economic policy
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Dr Nadeemul Haque
We need to deregulate our cities to allow more construction and high-rise development
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Dr Akmal Hussain
The key determinant of long-term economic growth of the country is the depth and range of innovations that take place within that society
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Dr Hafiz A. Pasha
The government should formulate a clear trade strategy, and then subsidise industries that can compete globally
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Shaukat Tarin
Reduce taxes, rein in government spending, and then prioritise poverty alleviation through programs to incentivise and fund entrepreneurship
How to fix the Pakistani economy
Profit speaks to five of the nation’s top experts on what the government should do in order to get the economy humming again