Explainer: Pakistan’s twin deficits and how can they be contained?

A vicious cycle leads to these “twin deficits” which is an increase in consumption of imports, reduction in savings and an increase in foreign capital injection single-handedly deteriorates the current account balance

Can Changan do for sedans what KIA did for SUVs?

The Alsvin is popular, cheap, and a quality buy. Will it be enough?

Recovering exports

Other economic shortcomings, however, have cast a shadow over the Khan government’s pandemic response

Dr Hafeez Shaikh’s scorecard

Despite the less than warm welcome he received from everyone, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has left the economy better than he found it

The need for farmer cooperatives in Pakistan

As the economy goes through a structural transformation, farmer cooperatives are more important than ever before

The Return of the Stay at Home Mom!

  While all the other little girls played with Barbies and doll houses, this peculiar one dreamt of the stars and the galaxy...

Rooting for the uprooted

If we look at today's tech driven world, there are thousands of very successful Sheikh Chillis around us. Sheikh Chilli was a dreamer not a loser!

200 million people and zero unicorns

A successful Pakistani Silicon Valley entrepreneur opens up about building the next great startup in Pakistan

Pakistan’s auto industry has a bright future. Here’s why

Cautious optimism for the auto industry in 2024: Understanding the driving forces

What’s going wrong in q-commerce and what we can do about it

Quick Commerce (q-commerce) is “hot”. Having worked in the field as part of Munchies for quite a while now, I like to...

The Bitcoin Craze: Should you jump in?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 3 years, chances are you must have been acquainted with the recent...

The economics of digital banks

Before the super-apps of today, there were banks. They provided a number of services under one roof, including payment, clearing, verification of...

Pakistanis don’t trust the PSX. They should

With the stock market looked at with suspicion, what investors need to understand is that fraud will always be out there, and being not having faith is just counterproductive.

Russia, Ukraine, and Pakistan

On the economic front, Khan’s strategy has two core goals - providing relief and boosting popularity.